Email: STEPHENKEKEGHE@DELSU.EDU.NG

  • Area of Specialization: African literature and the Medical humanities
  • Department of English and Literary Studies

  • I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Delta State University, Abraka. I taught for years in College of Education, Warri and Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo before joining Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary research. My interests include Medical Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory, Creative Writing, Postcolonial and Gender Studies. I have published extensively in these areas. I am also an award-winning poet and playwright. My poetry collection, Rumbling Sky (2020), was a joint winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for Poetry, 2021; and my play, Broken Edges (2023), was shortlisted for the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Drama, 2023. I was born in October 10, 1982 at Imode, Delta State, Nigeria. I got my Primary School Leaving Certificate from Baba-Ido Primary School, Okwagbe in 1995 and my Senior Secondary School Certificate from St. Vincent's College, Okwagbe in 2001. I developed interest in creative writing while at St. Vincent's College, Okwagbe, simply known as SVC. In fact, I served as the Editor of the College's Press Club. Further, I gained admission to study English and Literary Studies in Delta State University, Abraka, and graduated with a Second Class Upper Division in 2007. I proceeded to the University of Ibadan for Postgraduate studies, obtaining a Master's degree in Literature in 2012 and a PhD in Literature and Medicine in 2018. I emerged as the best graduating student in the 2012 MA Class of the Department of English, University of Ibadan. My PhD thesis, "Psychiatric Conditions in Selected Nigerian Literary Texts" is one of the pioneering efforts in Literature and Medicine in Nigeria. As a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), I currently serve as its National Auditor. I am married to Abigail Kekeghe and the marriage is blessed with two sons and a daughter: Emuesiri, Ebruphiyo and Erhuvwu.
    My Publications
  1. Kekeghe, Stephen; Ilolo, Karo & Akuburunwa, Hilary (2025) Nollywood and the Hybrid Postcolonial Space: Cultural Nationalism and Identities Construction in Kayode Kasum’s Afamefuna., African Identities/Taylor and Francis
    https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2025.2501805 Vol. Pages: 1–22.

  2. Kekeghe, Stephen; Ilolo, Karo & Akuburunwa, Hilary (2025) Humour in the Euphemisation of Depravities, Dread and Distress in Selected Nigerian Comic Skits of Sabinus. , The European Journal of Humour Research
    https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR.2025.13.2.1018 Vol. 13(2) Pages: 111-139

  3. Solanke, S. O., Kekeghe, S. E. & Kadiri, R. A. (2023) Oral Aesthetics and Sociopolitical Tempers in Tanure Ojaide’s Invoking the Warrior Spirit, International Journal of Humanities, Literature and Art Research
    https://mediterraneanpublications.com/MEJHLAR/article/view/199 Vol.(2) Pages: 1116-2619

  4. Agboola. O. T., amp;amp; Solanke, S. O., Kekeghe, S. E. (2023) Alter-Narrativity and Ecofeminism in the Mythical Account of Sogidi Lake in Awe, Oyo, Nigeria. , Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism/ Taylor and Francis:
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2023.2252440#:~:text=This%20study%2C%20therefore%2C%20examines%20the%20myth%20as%20an,change%20and%20human-induced%20disruption%20of%20the%20eco-tourist%20site. Vol. 27(3) Pages: 358–370.

  5. Kekeghe, Stephen Ese. (2022) Urhobo Art and Medicine: Images of Illness, Death and Therapeutics in Udje Song-Poetry. , Aridon: The International Journal of Urhobo Studies.
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=MQH-ce0AAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=MQH-ce0AAAAJ:GnPB-g6toBAC Vol.(2)3 Pages: 61-78.

  6. Kekeghe, S. E (2022) Art, Medicine and Public Health: Synergizing Humanistic and Medical Strategies in Managing a Pandemic, Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Health: Integrated Science Book Series . Springer, Cham.
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-96814-4_22 Vol.Volume 6. Pages: 509-523.

  7. Kekeghe, Stephen E. (2021) Dramatic Art, Medical Ethics and Rehabilitation: Patient-Centered Therapeutic Relationship in Omobowale’s The President’s Physician. , International Journal of Literature and Arts. Special Issue: Illnesses, Diseases and Medicalisation in African Literature.
    https://sciencepublishinggroup.com/article/10.11648/j.ijla.20210904.16 Vol.Vol. 9, No. 4, Pages: 177-182.

  8. Stephen Ese Kekeghe (2020) Mental Health, Minority Discourse and Tanure Ojaide’s Short Stories. , The Routledge Hand Book of Minority Discourse in African Literature. (Eds). T. Ojaide & J. Ashuntantang/ Taylor and Francis
    https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429354229-29/mental-health-minority-discourse-tanure-ojaide-short-stories-stephen-ese-kekeghe Vol.  Pages: 325-338

  9. Kekeghe, Stephen Ese. (2020) Narrating the Pandemic: Ethical Issues of Medicine in Nigerian COVID-19 Patient-Pathography, Issues in Language and Literary Studies: Journal of the Department of English, Ajayi Crowther University
    https://illsjournal.acu.edu.ng/index.php/ills/article/view/75/62 Vol.6 (1) Pages: 56-63

  10. E. B. Omobowale and Kekeghe, Stephen Ese (2020) Political Ambition and Psychiatric Manifestations in Femi Osofisan’s A Restless Run of Locusts. , Matatu/Brill
    https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/52/2/article-p239_2.xml Vol.52, 2, Pages: 239-253

  11. Kekeghe, Stephen Ese. (2017) Creativity and the Burden of Thoughts: Deconstructing Melancholia in Wumi Raji’s Rolling Dreams., Matatu/Brill
    https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/49/2/article-p293_4.xml Vol.49. 2. Pages: 293-306.