About
Dr Victoria Oluwamayowa Gbadegesin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies at Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria. Her research interest includes exploring multimodality in media and cultural discourse and analysing gender in different domains of language use. She is a fellow of the African Humanities Program under the American Council of Learned Societies.
Research
During my stay at CRASSH, I will work on female agency and gender ideologies in ‘Earth Women’; a Nigerian climate change documentary. Using multimodal discourse tools, I intend to examine how gender as a social variable moderates the effect of climate change on individuals and groups as represented in the docu-drama. The study will investigate the ways in which multimodal framings of climate knowledge and actions reflect female agency and gender inequality in the data. Specifically, I will interrogate how verbal and visual rhetoric is used in this documentary to articulate existing gender ideologies and explain how these ideologies negatively impact the female gender experience in communities adversely affected by climate change.
