Professor Oyinkan Christiana Medubi joined the services of the University of Ilorin in 1993 as a Lecturer II to teach English language in the then Department of Modern European Languages, now Department of English and Literary Studies. From that point on, she rose through the ranks to become a professor in 2015. Her area of specialisation is Sociolinguistics with special interest in Socio-cognitive Studies which cut across Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and Pragmatics, applied on Political Cartoons from German, American and Nigerian newspapers, as well as other social language events.
Professor Medubi has taught many courses in the department at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has also supervised the projects of very many students at all the levels – Undergraduate, Masters and Ph. D. She has also served as Head of the Department of English among other administrative duties.
Professor Medubi has over forty publications to her credit in local, national, and international journals and books in both American and European outlets. She was also a recipient of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (Georg Forster) fellowship in Germany which she utilised between 2001-2002; & 2007, by the permission of the University of Ilorin.