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Omojola, B. (2025). Opera is African: Ori虂ki虁, Narrativity, and the Politics of Power in Yor霉b谩 Opera. Journal of Black Opera and Music Theatre, 1(1), 109-144.
Omojola, B. (2025) Music of Taiwo Shango: Narrativity, Archive, and Postcolonial Resonances. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 1鈥16.
Omojola, B. (2020). "The Yoruba God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood that Talks" African Arts, 53 (3),93-95.
Omojola, B. (2019). "Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality." Yale Journal of Music & Religion, 5 (2), 133-135.
Omojola, B. (2019). "Contemplating African art music: a reflection on the Akin Euba Symposium and Concert." Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 16 (1-2), 163-171.
Omojola, B. (2020). "Toward an African Operatic Voice: Composition, Dramaturgy and Identity Strategies in New Yoruba Opera." In Matzke, C., van der Hoven, L., Odhiambo, C., & Roos, H. (Eds.), African Theatre: Opera and Music Theatre, (pp. 107-135). James Curry-Boydell & Brewer.
Oulbeid, B. & Turner, M. (2026). Ethical dimensions of standard language ideology in the teaching of Arabic as a foreign language. In T. Austin & H. 脟elebi (Eds.), Engaging with Ethics in Multilingual Learning Communities (pp. 197-222). De Gruyter Mouton.
Back, M., & Oulbeid, B. (October 2022). Examining instructional contexts and student beliefs in Arabic teacher recruitment. Second Language Research & Practice, 3(1).
Pon-Barry, H., St. John, A., Packard, B. W., & Stephenson, C. (2017). Addressing the CS capacity challenge by improving undergraduate peer mentoring. ACM Inroads, 8(3), 43鈥47.
Pon-Barry, H., Packard, B. W., & St. John, A. (2017). Expanding capacity and promoting inclusion in introductory computer science: A focus on near-peer mentor preparation and code review. Computer Science Education, 27(1), 54鈥77.
