Dr Joy Ifeanyichukwu Osarumwense Joseph is a teacher, researcher, translator/interpreter and a script writer. Dr Joseph is currently funded under the NIHSS/SU Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has lectured at the Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria) for more than ten years and speaks more than six languages: English, French, Chinese, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, German and conversational IsiXhosa. A published and an engaged scholar in Gender Studies /African literature, she is a strong voice against the oppression of women. Dr Joseph was the keynote speaker to the 8^th Istanbul Scientific Research Congress, (March 2022) is a scientific organizer and has presented several papers both locally and internationally; ICONSOS academic network (USA, 2019), 4^th International New York Academic Congress (January 2022), 4^th International Congress on Life, Social Sciences and Health Sciences, (February 2022), etc. Dr Joseph has won several distinctions and awards such as the Chinese Government Scholarship award (2007) and the NIHSS Scholarship award (2017).

Current Research Project

Dr Joseph is currently working on Re (Configuring) the “Other”: A Stiwanist Reading of Selected Works of West and South African Literary Texts. Feminism is a western theory which has been applied in analyzing African literary texts especially gender-based works of several authors. Her proposed research is a comparative and socio-critical analyses, centred on Gender based violence on African woman in the works of South African and West African authors such as Sindiwe Magona, Fatou Keita and Ramonou Sanusi via the Stiwanist lens. Such a lens would be based on the interpretation of these works from an Africanist perspective in order to see how African women responded to societal issues through their writing. According to Dr Joseph, one cannot assume that a Western feminist perspective would be relevant for such analysis. The relationships between men and women in Africa are not necessarily the same as that between men and women in the West. Stiwanism necessitates the evaluation of traditional, cultural, religious, socio-political, etc. norms that have negative effects on the growth and development of the woman.

Publications

Book Chapters

Joseph, J. I. (2017). “Six mountains on her back” A Stiwanist perspective of selected works of francophone African authors. In Aras, Brulent & Dagci, Kenan (Eds), Humanitarian studies foundation. pp. 40-48.

Joseph, J. I. (2022). The “other” and widowhood practices In Mariama Bâ’s “Une Si longue”, 4^th International New York academic research congress book. pp. 342-351. BZT Academy Publishing.

Joseph, J. I. (2022). Black woman and Stiwanism in Baboni’s Azaratou’s Vie de femme, Vie de Sang. In 4^th International congress on life, social and health sciences. pp 158-166. BZT Academy Publishing House.

Joseph, J. I (2022). A proverbial perception of the African woman in Yoruba culture: a Stiwanist perspective. 8^th Istanbul Scientific Research Congress, pp 32-40. BZT Academy Publishing House