Uzoma Elizabeth Egwu Okoro, PhD
Multilingualism; Identity Representation; Rhetoric; Media; Political Communication; Linguistic Anthropology
School: Institute of Humanities (IOH)
Faculty’s email address: Uokoro@pau.edu.ng
Brief Background
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Dr. Uzoma Elizabeth Egwu Okoro holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in English Language from the University of Lagos and a Doctorate in English from the University of Ibadan. She currently teaches Communication in English and English for Business Purposes to students at Pan-Atlantic University. Beyond her academic responsibilities, she is passionate about community and social development and actively contributes to the University’s community engagement activities. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Applied Linguistics and English Studies, with a focus on linguistic anthropology, identity representation, rhetoric, media, and how language and communication shape identities, social relations, public discourse, and civic engagement.
Research interest
Applied Linguistics and English Studies: Linguistic Anthropology; Identity Representation; Rhetoric; Media; Language in Film; Corpus Linguistics; Multilingualism; Language Policy
Teaching
Faculty leads courses in: Communication-in-English and English for Business Purposes
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in English, University of Ibadan
Master of Arts (MA) in English, University of Lagos
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English, University of Lagos
Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange
- School of Media and Communication, Professional Education teaching sessions on Storytelling, Language Skills, Artificial Intelligence Prompt
Okoro, U. E. E. & Sunday, A. B. (2026). “We Will Take Back Our Country From Bad Governance”: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Study of Campaign Tweets in the 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election. PHILOLOGIST – Journal of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies, 17(3).
Okoro, U. E. E. & Edosomwan, A. (2025). Naija on Netflix series: Gangster rhetoric and its representation of Indigenous languages. Journal of African Cinemas, 17(3), 195–210.
Okoro, U. (2025). Personal name symbolisation in selected works of Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. African Identities, 1–19.
Okoro, U. E. E. (2024). Language socialization and identity in selected Generation Z students. JAFALA: The Journal of African Linguistic Anthropology, 3(4), 9.
Edosomwan, A. & Okoro, U. (2024). Culture and identity in New Nollywood films: Trends in Indigenous and foreign language cinema. Journal of African Cinemas, 16(2–3), 221–235.
Okoro, U. (2023). A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of Part Three in the Catechism of the Catholic Church text. In Christianity and Society: Essays in Honour of Archbishop Margaret Benson.