Stephen Jantuah Boakye, Ph.D.

Instructor I

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal Arts English

Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, The University of Texas at El Paso (2022)

M. Phil, English, University of Cape Coast (UCC), Cape Coast, Ghana (2013)

B.Ed, Arts, University of Cape Coast (UCC), Cape Coast, Ghana (2008)

Areas of Focus

Digital literacy; political rhetoric; race and rhetoric

Selected Publications

Boakye, S.J. (Manuscript in Preparation to be Submitted to Composition Studies). Transnational Students and Racism: Using Critical Race Theory to Harness Student Rhetorical Agency in the Rhetoric and Composition Class
Torto, R.T., Boakye, S.J., Otchere, G., Yeboah, N.A., Owusu-Peprah, J. (2016). An Exploration of the Correlation between First Year Students' Performance in Communicative Skills and their Performance in English in the WASSCE. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies (4) 1.
Boakye, S.J. (2014). “‘Our democracy has been tested to the utmost limit’: An exploration of the use of assertives in Ghanaian presidential inaugural addresses”. Language, Discourse and Society 3 (1), 68-87.

Selected Presentations

Boakye, S.J. “Skills Students Want Prioritized When Integrating Digital Literacy Pedagogy in First-Year Composition” Computers and Writing Conference, East Carolina University. May 2022
Boakye, S.J. “Transnational Students and Racism: Can Critical Race Theory Harness Students’ Rhetorical Agency in the Rhetoric and Composition Class?” Southern Humanities Conference, Memphis, TN. January 2022
Boakye, S.J. “Digital Literacy in the Composition Classroom: A Case Study University of Texas at El Paso RWS Professional Development Workshop. October, 2020
Boakye, S.J. Digital Literacy in First-Year Composition: Could There Be Standards for Freshman Transnational Students? Computer and Writing, Lansing, Michigan. June 2019

Last Updated: November 19, 2024