Dennis Okeke
- PhD Student
- JOURNALISM
Dennis E. Okeke is an interdisciplinary scholar of communication and media. His research focuses on how race, gender, sexuality, religion, and politics are represented and contested in digital spaces across Africa and the United States. He explores themes such as LGBTQ+ rights, feminist discourse, religious rhetoric, decolonial politics, and online polarization. Employing digital ethnography, corpus linguistics, and critical discourse analysis, Okeke investigates how media constructs and challenges power, identity, and ideology.
He is especially interested in the tensions between African and Western discourses on gender, sexuality, and race, and the role digital platforms play in Black queer activism. His work has been published in Feminist Media Studies and Health Communication and presented at major conferences including AEJMC, ICA and NCA. He is an award-winning teacher and mentor who promotes critical, transnational and decolonial approaches to digital media/journalism studies.
Okeke is also developing research in U.S. jurisprudence, examining how court decisions shape discourse on identity and political order. Prior to academia, he worked in journalism, education, communications, and was an African Union Scholar. Outside of research, he enjoys running and dancing.
He is an interdisciplinary scholar of communication and media. His research focuses on how race, gender, sexuality, religion, and politics are represented and contested in digital spaces across Africa and the United States. He explores themes such as LGBTQ+ rights, feminist discourse, religious rhetoric, decolonial politics, and online polarization. Employing digital ethnography, corpus linguistics, and critical discourse analysis, Okeke investigates how media constructs and challenges power, identity, and ideology.
He is especially interested in the tensions between African and Western discourses on gender, sexuality, and race, and the role digital platforms play in Black queer activism. His work has been published in Feminist Media Studies and Health Communication and presented at major conferences including AEJMC, ICA and NCA. He is an award-winning teacher and mentor who promotes critical, transnational and decolonial approaches to digital media/journalism studies.
Okeke is also developing research in U.S. jurisprudence, examining how court decisions shape discourse on identity and political order. Prior to academia, he worked in journalism, education, communications, and was an African Union Scholar. Outside of research, he enjoys running and dancing.