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Odebunmi served as the Sub-Dean (Postgraduate Studies) at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan between August 2011 and 2014. He was in the Faculty's Publication Committee between 2007 and 2010. At the Department of English, UI, he has been Editor of the Ibadan Journal of English Studies since 2013 prior to which he was Deputy Editor between 2006 and 2010. He was also an ex-Postgraduate Co-coordinator, Member of the Departmental Finance Committee and Member of Local Organising Committee for International Conference on African Literature organised by the department. He served as Deputy Editor of Africa: Journal of Contemporary Issues between 2003 and 2007 and that of International Journal of African Culture and Ideas from 2004 to 2006. He also headed the Local Organising Committee for UI Faculty of Arts International Conference held in March, 2017.

As an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Georg Foster Experienced Research Fellow, he worked with Prof. Dr Peter Auer at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, an international research centre of excellence of the University of Freiburg, Germany between April 2010 and March 2011.He has also worked and is still working with the Peter Auer Research group at the Hermann Paul Centre of Linguistics, University of Freiburg. He is a member of professional bodies such as the English Scholars Association of Nigeria (ESAN) (formerly Nigerian English Studies Association - NESA), the Reading Association of Nigeria (RAN) and the International Pragmatics Association, Belgium. He had supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate research works while also serving as an external examiner in many universities within and outside Nigeria.

In a book edited by E. Adegbija and A. Ofuya titled English and Communication Skills for MESTA Students and published in 1996, Odebunmi coined the term 'abbronym'. An abbronym is a combination of abbreviation and acronym. Its lexematic variants are abbronymic, abbronymisation and abbronymically. It has since been widely used in Nigerian academic discourses.

Akin Odebunmi is a Yoruba Nigerian Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, University of Ibadan. Born on December 21, 1967, he is a widely traveled scholar in pragmatics and intercultural studies.