Rogers Asempasah

Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Faculty of Arts, since 2009per ORCID

Publishing since 2006, latest 2025

Literature and Literary Theory
Sociology and Political Science
Anthropology
Demography
Philosophy
Political Science and International Relations

In their own words

Literary studies
African literature
Coetzee
African Popular Culture
Political Communication

Publications: 242006–2025
Citations: 72to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 2.221.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 36%5 of 14 scored papers
Open access: 71%10 of the 14 whose access is recorded

2 other works — preprints, datasets and the like — are listed but not counted.

Google Scholar shows 119 citations, h-index 6 and i10-index 3 (97 citations and h-index 5 since 2021), as of October 3, 2026. It also counts theses, books and web pages, so it runs higher.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Career

As their ORCID record read on October 4, 2026

Positions

Lecturer, Department of EnglishUniversity of Cape Coast, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Faculty of Artssince 2009
Lecturer, Department of EnglishAda College of Education2006–2009
Lecturer, Department of EnglishEnchi College of Education1998–2002

Education

PhD, Dipartimento di Lingue e LetteratureUniversity of Sapienza, Roma2010–2014
MPhil, Department of English

Publications

24 in all

Terror in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon
2025African IdentitiesJournalFirst author0 citations10.1080/14725843.2025.2593943
REPRESENTATION OF INDIGENEITY IN THE POSTCOLONIAL DETECTIVE NOVEL: A LITERARY ANALYSIS OF NII AYIKWEI PARKES'TAIL OF THE BLUE BIRD
2025KENTE-Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts

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Citations received each year

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To all their work, old papers included. Google Scholar also counts citations from theses, books and web pages, so its line runs higher.

What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Literature and Literary Theory1042%
Sociology and Political Science625%
Anthropology313%
Demography28%
Philosophy28%
Political Science and International Relations28%
Religious studies28%
Communication14%
Cultural Studies14%
Economics and Econometrics14%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies8
African history and culture studies2
Caribbean and African Literature and Culture2
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity2
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature2
South African History and Culture2
African history and culture analysis1
Anthropological Studies and Insights1
Caribbean history, culture, and politics1
Contemporary Literature and Criticism1
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts1
Gender Studies in Language1

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

21% of their 14 papers with recorded affiliations have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111222Home

Most frequent partner countries

United States2
Italy1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

Iowa State UniversityUS1 paper
Sapienza University of RomeIT1 paper
Washington University in St. LouisUS1 paper

Where they publish

KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the Arts3
Cogent Arts and Humanities2
Critical African Studies2
Matatu2
A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing1
Africa Today1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

10Reduced inequalities3
4Quality education2
3Good health and well-being1
5Gender equality1
8Decent work and economic growth1
14Life below water1

Most cited

A postcolonial ecocritical reading of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Kwakuvi Azasu’s The Slave Raiders (2004)
Cogent Arts and Humanities14
202212 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Gold
Reconstituting the Self: of Names, Discourses and Agency in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
20169 citationsWorld top 10%Open access · Green
Christabel Aba Sam, and Bertrand Azagsizua Abelumkemah.“

B.A (Arts) and Diploma in Education, Department of EnglishUniversity of Cape Coast1993–1998

Honours, memberships and service

Editorial Board, Department of EnglishReview of International American Studies (RIAS)since 2016
Member, Department of English, University of Cape CoastUniversity Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG)since 2010
Regional Best Teacher Award, Tertiary Level, Greater Accra, Department of English, Ada Training CollegeGhana Education Service2009

Remembering the Disremembered

2024MatatuJournalOpen accessFirst author1 citation10.1163/18757421-bja00015

Reversing the imperial gaze, affirming possibility: Conrad and Fanon in Amma Darko's beyond the horizon

2023Drumspeak International Journal of Research in the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.47963/drumspeak.v6i2.1267

Thinking a Post-coronavirus Africa: Reading Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon in the Era of Covid-19

2022KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the ArtsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding4 citations10.47963/jla.v3i1.767

Animality: Animal imagery, characterization, and the articulation of difference in Victor Yankah’s dear blood

2022Asεmka A Bilingual Literary Journal of University of Cape CoastJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.47963/asmka.v11i2.1617

Disrupting Hegemony, Anticipating the Future: A Nietzschean Reading of God Dies by the Nile and Purple Hibiscus

2021International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation StudiesJournalOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.9n.3p.16

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

2019KENTE - Cape Coast Journal of Literature and the ArtsJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.47963/jla.v1i1.89

Reconstituting the Self: of Names, Discourses and Agency in Amma Darko's Beyond the Horizon

2016HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)JournalOpen accessFirst author9 citations

Christabel Aba Sam, and Bertrand Azagsizua Abelumkemah.“

2016A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yaa Gyasi’s HomegoingJournalFirst author8 citations

Empire, Monsters and Barbarians: Uncanny Echoes and Reconfigurations of Stoker’s Dracula in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

2016Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the ArtsBook chapterFirst author2 citations

The fragile ‘absolute’: Heremakhonon and the crisis of representation and historical consciousness

2014IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social ScienceJournalOpen accessFirst author3 citations10.9790/0837-19163947

In Search of Utopia: A Dialectic on St. Augustine's The City of God

2012Between Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Professor Kofi Edu YanksonJournalFirst author0 citations

How it can be read

71% free to read, of the 14 recorded

Diamond 1 · 4%Free to read and to publish
Gold 2 · 8%In an open-access journal
Hybrid 2 · 8%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 4 · 17%Free to read, no open licence
Green 1 · 4%A copy in a repository
Closed 4 · 17%Behind a paywall
Unknown 10 · 42%Not recorded by the source

Who funds it

1 of 24 papers name a funder

American Council of Learned Societies1

A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing