Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi, is a Nigerian University Lecturer and currently a visiting researcher at the Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She has received several awards including the African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) research grant, the postdoctoral fellowships of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana/Freiburg and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Her areas of research include: discourse, new media, multimodality, gender and african studies. Her papers have appeared in journals like Language and Semiotic Studies, LinguistikOnline, Language Matters and Journal of African Media Studies.