Faculty

Adebayo Oluwayomi

Assistant Professor

Dr. Adebayo Oluwayomi is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching interests contribute to the areas of African/Africana Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Anticolonial Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, and Black Male Studies.

Before joining West Chester University, Dr. Oluwayomi taught at Howard University, Southern Arkansas University, Whittier College, and served as the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College. His published works appear in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Black Studies, the Journal of Pan African Studies, and the Inter-American Journal of Philosophy.

Specializations

• Africana (African/African American) Philosophy
• Critical Race Theory
• Philosophy of Race
• Black Male Studies

Recent Courses

• HI 180: Introduction to Ethics
• PHI 101: World Philosophies
• PHI 201: Philosophy of Race
• PHI 499/599: African American Philosophy
• PHI 501: Philosophies Across Cultures-Methods and Traditions

Research Statement

My primary research interest interests contribute to discourses in Africana philosophy, Critical Race Theory, and Black Male Studies. My work on Black Male Studies investigates the gendered and racialized experience of subordinated males within society, with the aim of evolving a humanizing discourse for members of this social group.

I am also interested in questions and substantive debates in the areas of philosophy such as Social epistemology, History of philosophy, Ethics/Applied Ethics, and Socio-Political philosophy, in so far as they are focused on understanding human nature and how knowledge formation can lead to both individual and social transformation.

Selected Publications

"Rethinking the Philosophy of Law Curriculum: Critical Race Theory as Methodology, Law and Method, 1(1), September 2024, 1-24.

"Unbounding the Black Imago: How the Representation of Blackness in Superhero Fiction Propagate Negative Models of Anti-Racist Practice," Journal of Science Fiction, National Museum of Science Fiction, Washington, DC, 6(2), March 2024, 22-42.

"Not for the Faint of Heart: Becoming an Antiracist Philosopher in a Society Polarized by Critical Race Theory," Eidos: A Journal of Philosophy of Culture, 6(3), 2022, 5-23.

"The Fear of Black Men? A Fanonian Cartography of Anti-Black Misandry as Psycho-Sexual Pathology," Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships (Special Issue: Decolonizing Masculinity) 8(4), Spring 2022, 55-76.

"The Disposable Man—Grotesque White Fantasies of Black Male Death in George Yancy's Backlash," APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, 20(2), May 2021, 17-22.

"The Man-Not and the Inapplicability of Intersectionality to the Dilemmas of Black manhood," The Journal of Men's Studies 28(2), 2020, 183-205.