Nneka Ifeoma Ofulue (Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2005) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Political Culture. She specializes in feminist and rhetorical criticism, religious communication, and 19th century women’s public address, and teaches courses in rhetorical criticism, American women’s public address, communication and religion, and Black rhetoric.
Ofulue’s research interests like in the intersection of gender, religion, and culture in public discourses. She is interested in understanding religion in the contested space of the public sphere and its implication for social justice. Her current project examines the resurgence of traditional gender archetypes in contemporary American evangelical rhetoric of “biblical manhood and womanhood,” with special focus on the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and class in American evangelical culture.
Selected Publications:
Ofulue, N. I. (2004). President Clinton and the White House Prayer Breakfast. In R. P. Hart and J. L. Pauley II (Eds.) The Political Pulpit Revisited (pp.127-136). West Lafayette, Indiana: Perdue University Press.
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