Dr. Jairus Omuteche

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Dr. Jairus Omuteche

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Department of Language and Literature Education (LLE)

School of Arts and Social Sciences (MMUST)

P.O. Box 190-50100

Kakamega, KENYA

Office no. SPD Block B Room 312

Kakamega-Webuye Road

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-1987

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ResercherID:  AAW-7967-2020

                      Dr.  Jairus Omuteche

Dr. Jairus Omuteche holds a B. ED (Arts) aand an MA in Literature from University of Nairobi and PhD in Comparative Literature from University of Sunderland.  He is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of Department of Language and Literature Education, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology. His research interest and areas of teaching are in Postcolonial theory and Literatures; Literature of the Black Diaspora, Migration and Globalisation; and African Oral Literature, Folklore and Indigenous Knowledge.His current research focuses on Postcolonial Literature; Literature, language and Communication; Indigenous knowledge and folklore of Abanyole of Vihiga County; and the development of language learning/ teaching resource materials for Olunyole early speakers. 

Some of his key published works include: -

  1. Omuteche, Jairus. “Re-Orienting Identities in Song of Lawino: Okot P’bitek As a Critical Educator” In The Nairobi Journal of Literature, No. 9, Dec 2020. http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/154778
  2. Omuteche, Jairus. “Social Transformations: Re-negotiating Identity in Plural cultural Space in Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source and its Sequel”. In The International journal of Humanities and Social Studies, Vol 6, Issue 10, pp. 327-337, October 2018 ISSN 2321- 9203.Online. https://www.theijhss.com.
  3. Kabaji, Egara; Jairus Omuteche and George Kasili. “Image of Motherhood in Bukusu Work and Celebratory Songs”. In Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, Vol 2, Issue 3 March 2016. ISSN 2456-2971.
  4. Omuteche, Jairus. “Case Study: Teaching two Caribbean Texts in Kenyan University”, in Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (Special issue: Global pedagogy), Vol. 46, 1-2, pp. 211-238, January-April, 2015. ISSN: 0004-1327. Print.
  5. Omuteche, Jairus. “Historification and Kenya's Plural Identities: Re-reading Ngugi's Historiography”, in Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 2014, 1:1-2, 107-116, Online. Link: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23277408.2014.941753

  6. Omuteche, Jairus. “Social Transformations: Re-negotiating Identity in Plural cultural Space in Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source and its Sequel”. In The International journal of Humanities and Social Studies, Vol 6, Issue 10, pp. 327-337, October 2018.  www.theijhss.com.

 

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