Sunday Adesoye Adegbenro

Sunday Adesoye Adegbenro
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

Contact Info

Wescoe Hall, Room 3045

Biography —

Sunday Adegbenro is a doctoral candidate in English (Rhetoric and Composition) and a graduate instructor at the University of Kansas. His research brings together rhetoric of health and medicine, disability rhetoric, and digital humanities to examine how narratives shape experiences of illness, identity, and institutional communication. His current work explores sickle cell disease narratives in Nigeria and the continuity of patient-identified information across healthcare encounters. His broader scholarly interests include African rhetorical traditions, digital storytelling, and generative AI in writing education.

Education —

M.A. in English Language (Discourse Analysis and Rhetoric), University of Ibadan, Nigeria
B.A. in Educational Management/English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Specialization

Rhetoric and Composition; RHM; Disability Rhetoric; DH; Chronic Illness Narratives; Digital Storytelling; African Rhetorical Traditions; AI and Writing Pedagogy.

Research —

Rhetorical and digital humanities approaches to health communication, disability, and institutional discourse, including the construction, interpretation, and transformation of personal narratives in digital and institutional contexts.

Teaching —

I teach first-year writing (ENGL 101 and ENGL 102) and technical communication (ENGL 362). My teaching emphasizes rhetorical awareness, critical thinking, and effective communication, incorporating digital humanities and emerging technologies to support student learning.

Selected Presentations —

2025. "Pain, Stigma, and Digital Memory in Nigerian Sickle Cell Narratives." Memory and Trauma International Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, December 6.

Exhibitions —

We Are Not Sicklers: Sickle Cell, Stigma, and Public Memory in Nigeria (2025–2026). Digital humanities research exhibit developed through the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas.

Digital Exhibit: https://arcg.is/11zL590

Awards & Honors —

2026 William Albrecht Memorial Scholarship, Department of English, University of Kansas.

Grants & Other Funded Activity —

2025–2026. Digital Humanities Fellowship, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas 

2025. Applied Humanities Summer Fellowship, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas in partnership with the {B/qKC} Digital Archive Project.

Memberships —

Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Society for Disability Studies (SDS)