Temitope Ogungbemi, Ph.D.

English Language Coordinator

Temitope serves as the English Language Coordinator at NSC. The role requires him to coordinate NSC’s general English classes for immigrants, providing both pedagogical and administrative supports to strengthen the program. 

Prior to joining NSC, Temitope had taught English as a second language, sociolinguistics, and aspects of critical studies in Nigeria. He also consulted for private organizations. Temitope was trained in the two leading Nigerian universities, and bagged a doctorate of the University of Ibadan in 2018. His doctorate dissertation explored discursive patterns of meaning in cyber-interactions on Boko Haram terrorism. He was awarded the 2015-16 doctoral dissertation completion fellowship of Next Generation Social Science in Africa program, Social Science Research Council and a travel grant of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Middlebury College, Burlington VT in 2020. He was also a 2018-19 Fulbright Foreign Language Scholar at Penn Language Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA.

As a critical discourse analyst, Temitope engages social theories in interpreting dimensions of identity, power, and control, and how they are informed by narratives. He is currently interested in discourses of imperial politics in Africa.