Oluwafunmilayo Akinpelu

• I teach English Composition and American Literature to freshmen and sophomore students in a week.
• I lecture on technical aspects of compositional writing.
• I stimulate discussions based on readings and assignments for each class.
• I administer and grade class quizzes, written papers, and creative projects.

• I wrote short articles published on the college’s website
• I conducted interviews and edited interview transcripts used for annual reports
• I assisted the College Relations Director in creating graphic designs and illustrations
• I wrote feature pieces that are included in the college’s magazine titled Collegian.

• Wrote personalised multimedia reviews for the Journal of Displaced Voices published on the platform of LRA
• Created textual curative content that explores the digital and artistically inclined works done by LRA in form of virtual art exhibitions, photo projects, digital repositories, memory libraries, etc
• The collaborations of LRA and Vietnamese artist Moi Tran are to be extensively explored in this regard
• Wrote reviews and articles about other projects currently being carried out
• Worked with the UEL Archivist Paul Dudman to use the platform of the internship to start or continue an interactive storytelling project and harnessed online resources at UEL to create an enabling environment for the execution of this project.

• Wrote a comprehensive English version of a Wikipedia article about Lajos Kasssak’s life and works which, at that moment, did not exist
• Was co-opted into the process of creating innovative, English language-oriented contents to be posted on the Facebook page of the museum
• Worked on a seven-episode podcast show for the English-speaking artistic community enthusiastic to learn about Lajos Kassak’s politically, socially-committed intellectual legacy as well as some of the sites he visited and lived in during his exile in Vienna
• Proofread submitted manuscript related to a volume of a Dadaist journal soon to be published by the museum.

• Actively contributed to the sorting of old records and documents in order to determine if they should be retained or disposed
• Catalogued books and office materials to be moved to Vienna and created inventories of materials to be disposed
• Arranged library and archive-worthy books and documents into boxes.

• Engaged in an active fundraising campaign in which I reached out to CEU Alumni from several parts of the world
• Ranked as the best team member with a persuasive skill and an ability to engage well with donors or prospective donors either verbally or through written message.

• Published two groundbreaking entertainment-related content that engaged the attention of over one million online readers in less than two months
• Widened company’s readership base by 2% with highly creative news delivery and articles on aspects of Nigerian history
• Topped the company’s IO Analytics chart several times in a row by using strategic SEO skills to generate traffic on website and social media
• Managed a high volume of workload within a deadline-driven environment.

• Planned, composed and supervised strategic ideas to launch new partnerships with other IT stakeholders of system (API) integration, telecommunication operations, data and billing domains
• Improved brand trust through consistent culturally sensitive posts on the company’s blog and social media platforms
• Prepared service proposals, project descriptions and prospectuses that served as entry-points for new deals and contracts which, in turn, led to an increase in monthly revenues
• Participated in the successful organization of an HTML crash course for youths in the community.

• Researched and wrote social commentaries on the political situation of Nigeria at the time
• Strengthened relationships with high-profile statesmen via personal and professional meetings
• Drove the development and upgrade of the backend that engineered the blog.

• Prepared secondary school leavers for university entrance examinations like WASSCE, GCE, NECO AND JAMB in art-oriented subjects especially Literature, Government and Christian Religious Studies
• Enlightened students about the proper choice of courses, universities and right subject combinations through organised seminars and discussions.

• Taught extra classes to two seemingly difficult students who, due to rural-urban migration, had lost touch with basic education
• Interacted constantly with low-income parents for the mutual purpose of finding ways to help young pupils overcome learning difficulties.

• I was the lead curator and director of a collaborative art exhibition that aimed at foregrounding the fact that war is everywhere every time. It featured diverse works by students and community members within and around UA and it ran from Feb. 24 to March 28 at the Warner Transportation Museum.

• I spearheaded a collaborative interactive storytelling organized to tell a story of what gods would do differently if they were recreating it. The project involved students from different department – English, Music, and Art History. The exhibition ran from April 25th – May 13th, 2022 at the English building of the University of Alabama.

• I managed the production of a collaborative video titled, 'Restaging Memories of Dissent: #ENDSARS in Retrospect'. The video project posed as a curated digital repository of #ENDSARS2020 related experiences.
• For the project, the personalized narratives of ten Nigerian creatives were collated, compiled, and curatively edited into a singular, cohesive, coherent video of shared experiences that were showcased during a forum held on June 27, 2021, titled 'Digital Storytelling and Artivism in Nigeria: The Case of the ENDSARS Movement.'

• I ran a podcasting series titled CEU Chatroom in which I broadcast pre-recorded lively conversations with CEU students about issues that concern their individual life-worlds or matters of global concern. This podcast production was carried out on the platform of Visual Theory and Practice specialization in CEU.

• I created an ethnographical film, alongside two other members, about a Roma woman who lives in Monor, Budapest. The film showcased during a virtual screening is titled A Story Told about You and Others.

• I wrote reports and literary-inclined blog posts detailing the production process of the short film.

• I engaged in archival research that centered on re-evaluating the mass atrocity crimes perpetrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda using audio-visual archival materials.