About

Nancy Henaku is a lecturer at the Department of English, where she teaches courses in linguistics, literature and writing. She has also previously served as one of the Co-directors of the writing center at Ashesi University. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric, Theory and Culture from Michigan Technological University. 

Research Interest

She uses interdisciplinary perspectives from rhetoric and composition, discourse studies, critical and cultural theory, sociocultural linguistics and transnational studies to examine the complex issues of power and subalternity in varied post-colonial texts and contexts. Her work has appeared in Critical Discourse Studies, the African Journal of Rhetoric, Companion to African Rhetoric, and the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. 

Publications

Henaku, N. (2023). Examining gendered discourses from an African locale: towards an intrasectional feminist critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-17.

Henaku, N. (2023). Navigating the PhD, and Everything Else, in a Pandemic: A Storied Reflection on Precarity, Affect, and Resilience. J. Lindquist, B. Straayer & B. Halbritter (Eds), Recollections from an Uncommon Time: 4C20 Documentarian Tales (pp. 65-78). WAC Clearinghouse/National Council of Teachers of English.

Henaku, N., & Pappoe, R. (2022). African Rhetoric as an Emergent Subfield.  S. Ige, G. Motsaathebe & O. Ochieng (Eds), A Companion to African Rhetoric (pp. 171-194). Lexington.

Henaku, N. (2021). Transnational African Women as Voices of Conscience. R. Sackeyfio (Ed), African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 73-88). Lexington.