Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James has a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts (Arts of the Theatre) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. I am a Fellow of the Ife Institute of Advanced Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife, an Alumna of the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research, Harvard. She is also an associate fellow of the Institute of African Diaspora Studies (IADS - UNILAG), and member/ Principle Investigator of African Multiple Cluster Centre of Excellence, Bayreuth, Germany.

My research interests are in African Theatre and Dance, Film and Gender Studies. Oluwatoyin was a visiting researcher at the University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom (2018) and has had the opportunity of presenting scholarly papers at conferences and held workshops around the world. She is the brain behind: The Glorification of African Woman (the GAW identity) and Trans-Sociological Hybridity (TSH), an approach to conceptualizing African Contemporary Dance. TSH was first introduced at the University of Georgia, Athens in 2017 and later at the University of Malta in 2019.