Area(s) of Specialization/Research Interests
Drama, Theory and Practice, African Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism
Profile
PhD Drama, Theory and Practice. Literary Theory and Criticism, Africana Literature, Creative Writing, Popular Culture, Prose Fiction
Academic Credentials
PhD - English (Literature) -2018 MA - English (Literature) 2002 BA English 1998
Professional Association
Literary Scholars Association of Nigeria
Publications
| 1 | • *Adiele, Promise. “The Dialectics of Politics and Religion in T.S Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral”. Comparative Literature: East and West. Taylor and Francis Group, UK. 2024. pp. 1-5.-Updated on: 16Jun25 | |
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| 2 | • *Adiele, Promise & Eghagha, Hope. “Gender Superiority: Self-Sexualization and the Victory of Women in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata”. Cogent Arts & Humanities. Taylor & Francis Group, UK. vol. 12, no. 1, 2025. pp. 1-13-Updated on: 16Jun25 | |
| 3 | • *Adiele, Promise. “Audience Participation: Avant-Garde in Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Woman of Setzuan and Osofisan’s Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels”. Forum for World Literature Studies. Knowledge Hub Publishing Co. Hong Kong. vol. 16, no. 2, 2024. pp. 321-339.-Updated on: 16Jun25 | |
| 4 | • *Adiele, Promise. “Igbo Identity: New Yam Festival as Cultural Drama”. Journal of Folklore and Cultural Studies, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Univesity. vol. 5, no. 1, 2025, pp. 1-21.-Updated on: 16Jun25 | |
| 5 | • *Adiele, Promise. “Prostitution: The Illogicality of Morality in Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession”. AWIYE Journal of Language, Literature and Communication Studies, Osun State University Osogbo. vol. 4, no. 2, 2024, pp. 18-33.-Updated on: 16Jun25 | |
| 6 | • *Adiele, Promise. “Omugwo Cultural Practice in Igboland: A Threat to Men or Advantage for Women. Ogbazuluobodo: University of Nigeria Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, vol 6, no. 1, 2024, pp. 16-28.-Updated on: 16Jun25 | |
| 7 | • *Adiele, Promise. “American Dream: Illusion or Reality in Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Fitzerald’s The Great Gatsby”. Madonna Journal of English and Literary Studies, Madonna University, Okija, Anambra State. vol. 4, no. 2, 2024, pp. 62-89.-Updated on: 16Jun25 | |
| 8 | Adiele, Promise. “The Delphic Oracle and Ifa Oracle: Limits of Divination in Oedipus the King and The Gods Are Not to Blame”. Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. Pennsylvania State University Press, USA. Vol. 26, Number 1, 2024. pp.23-40.-Updated on: 08Feb24 | |
| 9 | *Adiele, Promise. “Animist materialism in Femi Osofisan’s No More the Wasted Breed (1983) and Once Upon Four Robbers (1991)”. Research Journal in Advanced Humanities. Royallite Publishers (EA), Kenya. Vol. 5, Number 1, 2024. pp.16-30-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 10 | *Adiele, Promise. Aesthetics: Redefining Femi Osofisan’s Dramatic Commitment”. Ars Artium: An International Journal of English Studies and Culture. Paragon International Publishers, New Delhi, India. Vol. 11, Number 1, 2023, pp. 1-17-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 11 | *Adiele, Promise. “Poverty and Exploitation: Iyayi’s Social Realism in Violence and Heroes”. Akshara: An International Refereed Research Journal of English Literature and Language. World Association of Authors and Researchers, New Delhi, India. Vol.15, Number 1, 2023. pp.24-32.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 12 | *Adiele, Promise. “Self-Preservation as a Tragic Paradox in Death, Not a Redeemer”. In Theory and in Practice: Engaging the Writings of Hope Eghagha, ed. Patrick Oloko, African Diaspora Press, Houston, USA, 2015, pp. 89-100.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 13 | *Adiele, Promise. “The Trial of Religion and Politics in Soyinka’s The Trial of Brother Jero and Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi” Mountain Top University Journal of Humanities, Management and Social Sciences, Vol.3, Number 2, 2024, pp. 6-15.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 14 | *Adiele, Promise. “Sexual Continence and Masculine Tragedy in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman”. Awka Journal of English Language and Literary Studies, Vol. 9, Number 1, 2023, pp. 186-205-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 15 | Adiele, Promise. “Metastasized Characters as Hegelian Change Agents in Osofisan’s Morountodun and No More the Wasted Breed”. Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. (IJLL) Vol. 8, Number 1. 2022, pp.215-332.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 16 | • Adiele, Promise. “Tragedy as a Component of Liberation and Freedom in Ola Rotimi’s The gods are not to Blame”. A Journal of the Department of English, Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) Vol. 4, Number 1. 2022, pp. 62-74.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 17 | *Adiele, Promise. “Yoruba Cosmology: Osofisan’s Ideological Haven in Once Upon Four Robbers and Esu and The Vagabond Minstrel”. Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. (IJLL) Vol. 7, Number 1. 2021, pp.313-335.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 18 | *Adiele, Promise. “The Supernatural Realm and the Physical Realm: Shakespeare’s Experiment with Opposites in Julius Caesar”. Jos Journal of English Language, (JJEL) University of Jos. Vol 1, Number 2. 2021, pp. 678-687.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 19 | *Adiele, Promise. “Deconstructing Marxist Labels in Osofisan’s Plays” Savanah Journal of Language, Literature and Communication Studies, Gombe State University. (SAJOLLCOS) Volume 2, Number 1, 2021, pp. 210-224.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 20 | *Adiele, Promise. “Hegel’s Levels of Consciousness as Factors of Change in Femi Osofisan’s No More The Wasted Breed”. Kalangu Journal of Language and Literature Studies. Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa. (KJLLS) Volume 2, Number 1. 2021, pp. 143-153-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 21 | *Adiele, Promise. “Rethinking Suicide as a Non-Mental, Non-depressive Phenomenon: Echoes in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart”. The Noun Scholar. National Open University Journal of Humanities. Vol. 1, Number 1. 2021, pp. 119-126.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 22 | *Adiele, Promise. “Nigerian Festivals: In Search of a New Identity”. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Journal of Cultural Studies (JOFOCUS). Volume 1, Number 1. 2021, pp. 5-12.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 23 | *Adiele, Promise. “The Dialectic of Violence: Rethinking Armed Robbery in Femi Osofisan’s Once Upon Four Robbers”. Ogbazuluobodo. University of Nigeria Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. Volume 1, Number 1. 2020, pp. 70-86.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 24 | *Adiele, Promise. “Masculinity in chaos: Interrogating Gender Tensions in J.P. Clark’s Song of a Goat”. AJLLS. Anambra State Journal of Language and Literary Studies, Volume 2, Number 1, 2020, pp. 146-158.-Updated on: 24Jan24 | |
| 25 | *Adiele, Promise. “Unity of Opposites in Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun and No More the Wasted Breed”. LARES. Lagos Review of English Studies, A Journal of Language and Literary Studies, University of Lagos, Volume 18, Number 1, 2019, pp. 341-355.-Updated on: 24Jan24 |