O.M. Olaniyan

Assistant Professor, Rhetoric and Public Communication

Education

Ph.D., University of Utah

Specialties

  • Critical/cultural theory
  • Global Black Rhetorics

Recent Publications

Olaniyan, O.M. (2026). Push and pushback: Feminist-queer tensions and African diasporic possibilities in #EndSARS discourse. Feminist Encounters, 10(1).

Olaniyan, O.M. (2021). Know your history: Toward an eternally displaceable strategic essentialism. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 14(4), 305-319.

Contact Us

Department of Communication
Watson Hall 210
DeKalb, IL 60115
815-753-1563
815-753-7109 (Fax)

David Gunkel, Ph.D.
Department Chair
dgunkel@niu.edu

Ferald Bryan, Ph.D.
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Watson Hall 216
fbryan@niu.edu