Ayodeji Richard Olugbuyiro is the inaugural Anthony B. Pinn Postdoctoral Associate in the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University. His research interests revolve around the formation of Black identities in the cultural productions of the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic, which encompasses countries such as Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cabo Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe. In addition to his focus on the Luso-Afro-Brazilian Atlantic, he also has a keen interest in understanding the experiences of Blackness in the Anglophone world, with a particular emphasis on Nigeria and the United States.

Before joining Rice, he served as Assistant Instructional Professor of African Studies at the University of Chicago. His recent work, "An Enduring Paradigm of Resistance: The Resurgence of Negritude in Contemporary Black Portuguese Poetry," examines how contemporary Black Portuguese poets revive the ethos of Negritude to assert their identities in a postcolonial world.