About me
Comfort Adejoke Durojaiye is a PhD student in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education at Indiana University Bloomington, where her work centers on language policy, cultural identity, multilingual education, and indigenous language revitalization. She is an educator, researcher, and curriculum developer with extensive experience teaching Yoruba and sociopsycholinguistics across diverse learning contexts. Her professional work reflects a strong commitment to equity-centered, culturally responsive, and translanguaging pedagogies that support multilingual learners and heritage language communities.At Indiana University, Comfort serves as an Adjunct Instructor in Sociopsycholinguistics, a Research Assistant with Multilingual Minds: Books and Beyond, an Exam Proctor with Accessible Educational Services, and an Events Staff member. She previously served as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant and Associate Instructor in the African Studies Program, where she taught Yoruba language and developed instructional resources. Her earlier teaching career in Nigeria also strengthened her experience in inclusive education, classroom leadership, and student support.Comfort’s scholarship and outreach connect academic research with community engagement, especially through Yoruba language education, curriculum innovation, and culturally grounded literacy practices. Her work has been recognized through multiple fellowships, awards, conference presentations, and service roles that demonstrate her growing leadership in multilingual and heritage language education.
