Gabriel Bámgbóṣé is a writer, critic, and translator. He is completing his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick on a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. His research focuses on how African women poets writing in English, French, Portuguese, and Yorùbá rethink négritude poetics. Bámgbóṣé is the founding editor of Ijagun Poetry Journal. His scholarly and creative work has appeared in African Literature Today, Journal of African Literature Association, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, Contemporary Humanities, Ideas & Futures, Footmarks: Poems on One Hundred Years of Nigeria’s Nationhood, Ake Review, The Criterion, The New Black Magazine, and Àtẹ́lẹwọ́ Pélébé, among others. He is the author of the poetry collection, Something Happened After the Rain.
- Gabriel Bámgbóṣé
- Rutgers University
