Staff Profile

Profile Details

Department	English And Literary Studies
Faculty	Arts
Office	Not specified

Biography

Nwiyi Joy Ikechukwu is a Associate Professor, in the Department of English And Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, specializing in Gender, Women, Transnational and Postcolonial Studies, with 25 publications at Federal University of Lafia.

Research Interests

Publications

• “Cosmopolitan Peregrination: The Push and Pull in Helon Habila’s Traveller’s "
  Journal of English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria (JESAN), 2024
• “Satire and Poetic Commitment in Halima Amali’s Faces of Shame”
  LJA: Lafia Journal of Arts, Federal University of Lafia, 2023
• “Between Worlds: Narrating Globalisation, Identity and Alienation in Leila Aboulela’s Short Stories”.
  Transcultural Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences (TJHSS), Badr University in Cairo, BUC, 2022
• “Gender Relations and Fair Hearing: The New in Ola Rotimi's ‘Man Talk, Woman Talk’”.
  Dutse Journal of Gender Studies, 2025
• “Articulating Trauma: Tropes And Metaphors in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus”
  DUJEL: DUTSA-MA Journal of English Language, 2022
• “Snail-Sense Sheroes: Reconfiguring Womanhood in Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo’s House of Symbols”
  CJAH: COOU Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2020
• “Who has this story? A Study of Dorathy Akpovye Olaku’s Picture book: Journey to the City”
  LJA: Lafia Journal of Arts, Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State, 2019
• “Globalisation in Literature: A Study of Chimamanda Adichie’s Short Stories”
  AKSUJEL: Akwa Ibom State University Journal of English and Literature, 2018
• “Culture and the Modern Individual in Jude Dibia’s A Life in Full and Molara Wood’s Indigo”
  Humanities in Area Studies Perspective, Special issue of International Review of Humanities Studies, University of Indonesia, 2019
• “A Critical Reading of Idris Amali’s Efeega: War of Ants”
  YANJELL: Yankari Journal of English, Literature and Linguistics, 2017
• “Hair Texture and Identity: The Other Side of Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah”
  UUJE: University of Uyo Journal of English and Literature, 2017
• “Immigrant Women and Transnational Sex Trade in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street”
  JLSN: Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria, 2015
• “New Role Perspective of African American Women in Terry McMillan's Waiting To Exhale”
  Marang: Journal of Language and Literature, University of Botswana, 2015
• “Survival and Female (Ad)venturing in Sefi Atta's Swallow”
  International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL), 2014
• “Discovery, Assertion and Self-Realisation in Recent Nigerian Migrant Feminist Fiction: The Example of Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come”
  Afican Nebula: UNIOSUN Journal of Humanities, 2011
• Gender Taboos and Homophobia in Unoma Azuah’s Embracing My Shadow: Growing Up Lesbian in Nigeria.
  The Gender Truth Journal, 2025
• “Men as Women: Imaging and Gender Dynamics in Vincent Egbuson’s Womandela”
  DUJEL: DUTSA-MA Journal of English Language, 2025
• “Oil in Which Words Are Eaten”: Tiv Proverbs and The Construction of Womanhood
  Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, 2026
• Transgressive Women in Oyinkan Braithwaite’s "My Sister, The Serial Killer" and Nawal El Saadawi’s "Love In The Kingdom Of Oil"
  Ahyu: A Journal of Language and Literature, 2025
• “From Trauma to Agency: Selfhood and Resilience in Chika Unigwe’s The Middle Daughter.”
  LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 2026
• Fractured Self: The Burden Of Identity Crisis In Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind Of Blackman
  International Journal of Arts, Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies (JOLLS), 2026
• Dynamics Of Silence: (Un)Speakable Trauma in Soji Cole’s Embers And Maybe Tomorrow
  Lafia Journal of Theatre and Media Arts (LAJOTMA)., 2026
• Burning Bottom (Collection of poems).
  Book, N/A
• Laugh when Crying is not Enough (Collection of poems)
  Book, N/A
• Chapter Publication
  Book Chapter, N/A
• "Fractured Self: The Burden of Identity Crisis in Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Blackman"
  Accepted Journal Paper, 2026