About

Dr Joyce Osei Owusu is an academic in the field of media and theatre arts, currently lecturing at the University of Ghana’s Department of Theatre Arts. She is an alumna of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where she earned her PhD, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she completed her MA in Media Studies. Her scholarly pursuits encompass a range of topics within Ghanaian film and theatre studies. Joyce has contributed to academic journals, focusing on themes such as gender representation in films, the influence and reception of women filmmakers in Ghana and the diaspora, the politics of women’s artistic expression, and the evolution of contemporary theatre in Ghana. In a sense, her work explores the intersection of gender and creativity in the Ghanaian cultural landscape.

Education

PhD (Media and Communication) Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,  Australia   

Master of Arts (Media Studies) University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Bachelor of Arts (Theatre Arts and English), University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Research Interest

Ghanaian and diaspora women in cinema, film criticism and female representation, audience reception of women’s film, Ghanaian contemporary theatre and women. 

Publications

• 2024:    Osei Owusu, J. (2024). Journeying and Researching Ghanaian/Diaspora Women's Filmmaking. Practices. Black Camera: The New Series, vol. 15, 2, pp. 301-307.

2022:    Osei Owusu, J. (2022). Violence against women and girls: Female filmmakers critique the menace. Journal of Film and Video, vol. 74, no. 1, Spring 2022

• 2021:   Osei Owusu, J. & Kwansah-Aidoo, K. (2021). : Gender and/in film: A comparative analysis of male and female readings of Ties that Bind. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 124-158. 

• 2017:   Kwansah-Aidoo, K. & Osei Owusu, J. (2017).  A contemporary, empowered female figure? Towards a feminist reading of Frimpong-Manso’s Life and Living It and The Perfect Picture. Journal of African Cinemas, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 55-73.

• 2015:   Osei Owusu, J. & Kwansah-Aidoo, K. (2015). Towards genre classification in Anglophone West African video films: The case of Scorned as a woman’s film. Journal of Arts and Humanities, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 1-11. 

• 2012:   Kwansah Aidoo, K. & Osei Owusu, J. (2012). Challenging the status quo: A Feminist reading of Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s Life and Living It. Feminist Africa, no. 16, pp. 53-70.