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Stephen, Bernard Otonye

bernard.stephen@ndu.edu.ng

Areas of Research Interest & Specialty

S/N Research Area
1 HISTORICAL, TRAUMA AND TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES
2 GENDER AND MASCULINITY STUDIES
3 ECO-LITERATURE
4 AFRICAN POETRY

School Attended with Qualifications

  • UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA - PhD - 2022
  • UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA - MA - 2005
  • RIVERS STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA - B.Ed - 1995
  • RIVERS STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA - N.C.E. - 1993

Membership of Professional Bodies- Year

  • ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (ELTAN) - 2005
  • LITERARY SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (LSN) - 2014
  • ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIAN AUTHORS (ANA), BAYELSA STATE CHAPTER - 2020
  • CURRICULUM ORGANIZATION OF NIGERIA (CON) - 2023
  • GRADUATE ASSISTANT (NYSC), FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, YOLA - 1995 - 1996
  • ENGLISH TEACHER, LAO RUSSELL MEMORIAL SECONDARY SCHOOL, PORT HARCOURT - 1997 - 2006
  • ASSISTANT LECTURER, NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY - 2006 - 2008
  • LECTURER II, NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY - 2008 - 2016
  • LECTURER I, NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY - 2016 - 2022
  • SENIOR LECTURER, NIGER DELTA UNIVERSITY - 2022 -
  • EXAM OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH & LITERARY STUDIES, NDU - 2006 - 2018
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH & LITERARY STUDIES, NDU - 2006 - 2013
  • MEMBER, FACULTY EXAM OFFICERS' COMMITTEE, FACULTY OF ARTS, NDU - 2015 -
  • FACULTY EXAM OFFICER, FACULTY OF ARTS, NDU - 2018 -

Workshops and Conferences Attended

  • UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN LITERATURE - 2008
  • GOMBE STATE UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NIGERIAN LITERATURE - 2010
  • 5TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA - 2012
  • 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE LITERARY SOCIETY OF NIGERIA - 2015
  • UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - 2019
  • THE ARTICLE WRITING PROCESS: AN ELSEVIER AUTHOR WORKSHOP (WEBINER) - 2020
  • THE BOOK PUBLISHING PROCESS: AN ELSEVIER AUTHOR WORKSHOP (WEBINER) - 2020
  • 6TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION, NDU - 2021
  • 10TH ANNUAL NATIONAL WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA - 2021
  • MAIDEN CONFERENCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES, NDU - 2022

Articles

  • Bernard Otonye Stephen (2022). Aspects of Military Masculinity in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah. Journal of the English Language Teachers Association of Nigeria, 12(2) 1-15 0
  • Bernard Otonye Stephen and Margaret Fafa Nutsukpo (2021). Gendered Power Relations and Change in Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People. Okwo: University of Port Harcourt Journal of Language and Literature, 2(0) 1-17 0
  • Bernard Otonye Stephen and Margaret Fafa Nutsukpo (2020). Cultural Reclamation: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God as Contact Zone Autoethnographic Narratives. Niger Delta Journal of Education, 12(2) 1-13 0
  • Bernard Otonye Stephen and Chinyelu Florence Ojukwu (2020). Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow as Narrative of Kenyan Post-colonial Power Contestations. Kiabara: University of Port Harcourt Journal of the Humanities, 26(1) 24-37 0
  • Bernard Otonye Stephen (2017). Niger Delta and the Poetics of Power: Ibiwari Ikiriko, G.'Ebinyo Ogbowei and Obari Gomba. Niger Delta Research Digest, 12(1) 32-70 0
  • Bernard Otonye Stephen (2016). Trauma as Double Wound in Shimmer Chinodya's Harvest of Thorns". Matatu: Journal for African Culture, 48(0) 161-179 10.1163/18757421-04801011
  • Bernard Otonye Stephen (2016). Representation of the New Woman in Three African Novels. Wilberforce Island Review: Journal of the Faculty of Arts, 15(0) 241-257 0
  • Bernard Otonye Stephen (2015). Politics and the Novel on the Niger Delta. Wilberforce Island Review: Journal of the Faculty of Arts, 13(0) 69-87 0
  • Bernard Otonye Stephen (2013). Gendered Hierarchies: Masculinity Contestations in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart". Working Papers: Journal of English Studies, 6(0) 208-224 0