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Dr. OJARUEGA, ENAJITE (PROFESSOR)
Email:
ojaruega@delsu.edu.ng
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Area of Specialization: African Literature, Gender Studies/Theories & African Cultural Studies
Department of English and Literary Studies
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega is Professor of African Literature in the Department of English and Literary Studies at the Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria. She was Ag. Head of the Department between 2018 and 2023; and currently, the University's Orator. Her areas of academic interest and specialty include: Modern African Literature, Gender Studies/Theories and African Cultural Studies. She has published scholarly articles on contemporary African literature in reputable peer-reviewed journals like Comparative Literature and Culture (CLCweb), Tydskrif Ver Letterkunde, Matatu, Journal of African Literature Association and The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She has consistently served as reviewer for quite a number of high impact journals. She is co-editor of the seminal book "The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta" which was published by Routledge in 2021. Enajite spent the 2019 Fall Semester as a Senior Visiting Researcher and Fellow of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA. She is also DELSU's Coordinator on the TRaCE Transborder Project funded by SSHRC, Canada.
My Publications
Ojaruega, E. E. (2023) Yabis, A Nigerian Genre of Insult, African Battle Traditions of Insult
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15617-5_13
Vol. Pages: 245-261
Ojaruega, E. E. (2022) The Glocal Conundrum: Anthropocene, Oil and Globalization in Niger Delta Literature, Open Journal of Social Science
https://www.scirp.org/pdf/jss_2022010714390046.pdf
Vol.10 (1) Pages: 15-28
Ojaruega, E. E. (2022) They Too are Casualties: The Toll on the Ecology in Nigerian Civil War Literature , Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies”
https://doaj.org/article/ddc4e0ef3c9a4867bc054b0bd6d86268
Vol.13 (1) Pages: 33-47
Ojaruega, E. E. (2022) “Representation of Female Mental Ill Health in the African Novel.” , International Review of Humanities Studies
https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/irhs/article/1061/&path_info=uc.pdf
Vol.7 (1) Pages: 32-43
Ojaruega, E. E. & Ojaide, T. (2021) The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta (Co-Editor), Routledge
https://www.routledge.com/The-Literature-and-Arts-of-the-Niger-Delta/Ojaide-Ojaruega/p/book/9780367682897
Vol. Pages:
Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) From the Niger Delta Point of View: The Nigerian Civil War Literature , The Literature and Arts of the Niger Delta (Routledge)
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003136750-23/niger-delta-viewpoint-enajite-eseoghene-ojaruega
Vol. Pages: 206 -217
Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) The Signification of African Spirituality in Selected Short Stories of Tanure Ojaide , Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of "Aurel Vlaicu", University of Arad
http://www.jhss.ro/downloads/24/articles/vol%2012%20no%202%20(24)%202021-45-58.pdf
Vol.12/2 (24) Pages: 45-58
Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) “One Text, Many Literary Traditions: The Multidimensionality of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman.” , Afrika Focus
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357396360_One_Text_Many_Literary_Traditions_The_Multidimensionality_of_Wole_Soyinka's_Death_and_the_King's_Horseman
Vol.34 (2) Pages: 262-282
Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) Beyond Victimhood: Female Agency in Nigerian Civil War Novels, Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture (CLCweb),
https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3619
Vol.23 (4) Pages: 1-12
Ojaruega, E. E. (2021) “Confronting the Enemy Within: Subverting Internal Complicity in the Debacle of Oil in Two Niger Delta Plays.”, KIU Journal of Humanities
https://kampalajournals.ac.ug/ojs/index.php/kiuhums/article/view/1113/998
Vol.5 (4) Pages: 175-184
Ojaruega, E. E. & Ojaide, T. (2020) “Tradition, and Subjectivities: Warri- Related Nigerian Comedians and Their Art.”, Tydskrif Ver Letterkunde,
https://letterkunde.africa/article/view/8321
Vol.57 (2) Pages: 81-91
Ojaruega, E. E. (2020) Representation of Women in Udje: An Urhobo Men's - Only Poetic Performance , Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429354229-19/representation-women-udje-urhobo-men-oral-poetic-performance-genre-enajite-eseoghene-ojaruega
Vol. Pages: 206 -217
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2019) Sisters at Arms: Female Misogyny and Competition in Sam Ukala's Selected Plays, UNIUYO Journal of Humanities
http://uujh.org/wp-content/uploads/vol23N2Full/SISTER1.pdf
Vol. 23 Pages: 313-324
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2019) ”Conformity, Resistance, and Resolution in Gender Relationships in Traditional Urhobo Poetry., Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria
Vol. 11 Pages:
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2018) Exile, Migration and Homecoming in Nigerian and South African Fiction, Nigerian Journal of Oral Literatures
Vol. 5 Pages: 45-58
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2018) Damaged Identities and their Restoration: Patriarchy as Social and Psychological Injustice in African Women’s Novels, Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in Honour of G.G. Darah/Malthouse Press Limited
https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=FVNjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP15&lpg=PP15&dq=Enajite+Ojaruega+Damaged+Identities&source=bl&ots=0Vy8HQ7Axs&sig=ACfU3U2D4leDz41fgddzVZBQ_0dcGlcGiA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirjPyh2ITpAhVtSxUIHWshBAwQ6AEwAnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Enajite%20Ojaruega%20Damaged%20Identities&f=false
Vol. Pages: 139-148
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2017) Singing Nature: The Lyricism of Christian Otobotekere’s Poetry, Between the Crown and the Muse: Poetry, Politics and Environmentalism of Christian Otobotekere/Malthouse Press Limited
Vol. Pages: 155-164
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2017) Songs only Women Sing: Female Struggles with Identities and Roles in Traditional and Modern Urhobo Poetry, The Niger Delta Literary Review
Vol. 5 Pages: 81-112
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2016) Indigenous Knowledge and Female Participation in Sustainable Development: A Nigerian Literary Perspective., Abraka Humanities Review
Vol. 7 Pages: 67-74
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2015) The Place of Urhobo Folklore in Tanure Ojaide's Poetry, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/TVL.V52I2.10
Vol.52 Pages: 138-158
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2014) Outgoing and Incoming Africans: Migration and Reverse Migration in Contemporary African Narratives, Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, Number 45, 2014.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211093_003
Vol.45 Pages: 21-34
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2014) Poetry as Therapy: T.J. Sallah's "Harrow Poems", Contemporary Literature of Africa: Tijan M. Sallah and Literary Works of the Gambia/Cambria Press, Amherst, New York
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/exlibris/aleph/a22_1/apache_media/267GRRCHEUTQRM6M34LNTXBCLTS3X6.pdf
Vol. Pages: 189-202
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2014) Urhobo Literature in English: A Survey, Aridon: The International Journal of Urhobo Studies
Vol. 1 Pages: 87-101
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2014) Globalization and Local Variables in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction, Abraka Humanities Review
Vol. 6 Pages: 15-24
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2013) Eco-Activism in Contemporary African Literature, Eco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscapes/ African Heritage Press
https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=yC20qB80ZtUC&pg=PR3&lpg=PR3&dq=Enajite+Ojaruega+Eco-Activism&source=bl&ots=46k802ryxO&sig=ACfU3U1uyC-1EqsRrOvIP6z4oaEFdIbk2Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi--6mj2YTpAhWD5-AKHTQYA0EQ6AEwB3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Enajite%20Ojaruega%20Eco-Activism&f=false
Vol. Pages: 31-46
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2012) Feminist Perspectives And Intra-gender Conflict In Tess Onwueme’s Tell It To Women., Journal of the African Literature Association
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2012.11690189
Vol.6 Pages: 197-206
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2011) Of Minstrelsy and the Niger-Delta Condition: Tanure Ojaide as Chronicler and Activist Writer, The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2069735
Vol. III Pages: 15-31
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2011) Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 360: Contemporary African Writers/Gale Cengage Learning
http://assets.cengage.com/pdf/toc_9780787681784.pdf
Vol. Pages: 104-109
Enajite Eseoghene Ojaruega (2010) “Gender and Resource Control as Tropes in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow, Abraka Humanities Review
Vol. 3 Pages: 96-101
Sunny I. Awhefeada & Enajite E. Ojaruega (2009) Cultural Imperatives and the Evolution of Nigerian English, English in the Nigerian Environment: Emerging Patterns and New Challenges/ The Nigeria English Studies Association of Nigeria (NESA)
Vol. Pages: 72-77