a. Teaching Experience
– English Language Teacher, Zinnia College, Ikeja, Lagos. 1995 – 1997.
– Graduate Assistant, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, 2000-2003.
– Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, 2003 – 2004.
– Facilitator, English Unit, National Open University of Nigeria, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2008– 2009.
b. Work Experience
– Lecturer 1, English Unit, National Open University of Nigeria, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2011– 2014.
– Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, National Open University of Nigeria, Jabi, Abuja, 2015 –2019.
– Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, National Open University of Nigeria, Jabi, Abuja, 2019 – Date.
c. University Administration
– Chairperson, Welfare Association of the School of Arts & Social Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria, 2014 – 2016.
– Head, Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, National Open University of Nigeria, Jabi, Abuja, 2016 – 2020.
– Member, NOUN Research Ethics Committee, 2022 – 2023.
– Ag. Director, Lokoja Study Centre, April 2024 – to present

1. Yakubu, A. M. (2024). Woman as the Goddess, the Mother, and the Lover: A Literary Analysis of Selected Poems of J. P. Clark. In Niu Journal of Humanities, vol. 9 no. 3, pp. 225 – 230, Nexus International University, Kampala, Uganda. ISSN: 3007 – 1704.
2. Yakubu, A. M. (2024). Women and the Fear of Mathematics: A Gender Analysis of the Myths and Realities in an ODL Context. (2024). In Sotunsa, M., Kalejaiye, A. S., & Nyamekye, P. A. (Eds.) Gender and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 109 – 122pp. ISBN 978-3-031-38513-1.
3. Yakubu, A. M. & Sotunsa, M. (2023). Introduction: African Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spheres. In Yakubu, Anthonia & Sotunsa, Mobolanle (Eds.) Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 1 – 12pp. ISBN 978-3-031-40581-5.
4. Yakubu, A. M. & Olaoye, E. (2022). ‘Sexploitation’, Power, and Powerlessness in Isidore Okpewho’s The Last Duty’. International Journal of Humanitatis Theoreticus, vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 40 – 61. ENS Yaounde, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. ISSN: 27142418.
5. Yakubu, A. M. & Olaoye, E. (2021). ‘The Woman’s Body as Alternative Canvass of the Nigerian Civil War: A Literary Analysis of Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets’. Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (TJHSS), vol. 2, No.1, pp.33– 48. Badr University, Cairo, Egypt. ISSN: 4247 – 2636.
6. Yakubu, A. M. (2020). ‘Gendered Myths and Proverbs Among the Igbo. Yankari Journal of English, Literature and Linguistics, vol.2, No. 1. pp. 105–116. Department of English, Bauchi State University, Gadau, Bauchi State. ISSN: 22366037.
7. Yakubu, A. M. (2020). ‘Demystifying the Stepmother and Mother-in-Law Archetypes: A Literary Analysis of Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets’. Kebbi Journal of Language and Literature, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 112 – 121. Department of European Languages, Federal University Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State. ISSN2735-9069.
8. Yakubu, A.M. (2020). ‘A Structural Analysis of Selected Nigerian Folktales’. Lagos Papers in English Studies (LAPES), vol. 6, No. 2, pp.54 – 74. Department of English, Lagos State University, Lagos. ISBN2756–4339.
Yakubu, A.M. (2019). Telling it as it is: Women as Protagonists in Autobiographies. In Hayes Tracy, Brown Laurinda & Edlmann Theresa, (Eds.) Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. 231 – 241pp. ISBN 1570 – 7113.
9. Yakubu, A.M. (2019). Of Class, Infidelity and Widowhood: Women Against Women in Nollywood Films. In Muhammed O. Bhadmus (Ed.). The Nigerian Cinema, Gender and Sexuality in the Nigerian Motion Pictures. Kano: Department of Theatre and Performing Arts. 28 – 44pp. ISBN 978-978-8203-67-4.
10. Yakubu, A.M. (2019). ‘Women, Men, and Women: Gender Relations in Selected Nigerian Folktales’. ABUDoF: Journal of Humanities, vol. 2, No. 8., pp.169–188. Department of French, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State. ISSN: 1595 – 7004.
11. Yakubu, A. M. (2019). ‘The Potter and the Clay: Folklore in Gender Socialisation’. Oye: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 141 – 152. Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State. ISSN 2714-2841
12. Ugoala, B. & Yakubu, A. M. (2019). ‘A Socio-Semiotic Study of the Meaning Potentials in Hash-tagged Messages in Placards of Killings in Benue State, Nigeria’. Journal of the English Scholars Association of Nigeria, vol. 21, No. 1, pp.79 – 102. ISSN 0029 – 0009
13. Yakubu, A. M. (2019). ‘Women and Work in Nigerian Male-Authored Literary Texts’. The Nasara Journal of Humanities, vol. 8, No.1 and 2, pp. 275–283. Faculty of Arts, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nasarawa State. ISSN 1118 –6887.
14. Yakubu, A. M. (2019). ‘The Image of Yoruba Women in Myths and Proverbs’. Nigerian Journal of Literacy and English Education, vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 130 – 138. Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue State. ISSN 2705-3342.
15. Yakubu, A. M. (2018). ‘The Place of Women in Selected Hausa Gendered Proverbs’. Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures, vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39 – 50. ISSN 2467 –8635.
16. Yakubu, A. M. (2018). ‘Rewriting the Women Enmity Lore: New Voices in Autobiographical Narratives’. Journal of Advances in Language & Literary Studies, vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 220 – 226. ISSN 2203 –4714.

Gender Studies. Oral Folklore. Autobiographical Studies. Film Studies.

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Senate Research Grant, National Open University of Nigeria, for the Research Project, A Study of Literature-Based Approach to English Learning by Secondary School Students in the North-Central Region of Nigeria. December 2020.