Joanna Boampong

Snr Lecturer/Head of Department, University of Ghana, since 2005per ORCID

Publishing since 2004, latest 2025

Literature and Literary Theory
Religious studies
Anthropology
History
Philosophy
Sociology and Political Science

In their own words

Hispanic African diaspora cultural and literary studies

Publications: 152004–2025
Citations: 41to those papers
h-index: 4i10-index 1
Field-weighted impact: 0.001.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 0%0 of 3 scored papers
Open access: 67%2 of the 3 whose access is recorded

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

Google Scholar shows 42 citations, h-index 4 and i10-index 1 (30 citations and h-index 3 since 2021), as of October 12, 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

Snr Lecturer/Head of Department, European LanguagesUniversity of Ghanasince 2005

Education

PhD, Spanish and PortugueseUniversity of Southern California

Publications

15 in all

Introducción. Contenedores, remeros, islas que se repiten, el océano madre y espíritus marítimos: conexiones acuáticas en la literatura y el arte entre África y América Latina
2025TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic WorldJournalSenior author0 citations
Centering Female Protagonists: explorations of Ama Ata Aidoo’s influence in Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and Guillermina Mekuy’s Tres almas para un corazón
2024

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Literature and Literary Theory213%
Religious studies213%
Anthropology17%
History17%
Philosophy17%
Sociology and Political Science17%

Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Hispanic-African Historical Relations2
African history and culture studies1
Cuban History and Society1
Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez1
North African History and Literature1
Spanish Culture and Identity1
Spanish Literature and Culture Studies1

Who they write with

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

Where they publish

In and Out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections2
Women’s Perspectives on (Post) Migration2
África y escrituras periféricas: horizontes comparativos1
Africanías Revista de literaturas1
Cambridge Scholars Publishing1
Epos Revista de filología1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

5Gender equality1
16Peace, justice and strong institutions1

Most cited

In and Out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
201213 citations
Contesting the Religious Civilizing Mission of Empire in Hispanophone African Literature
Matatu
20115 citations
Coping to Survive? A Study of Female “Afro-Diasporic” Actors of Spain
Women’s Perspectives on (Post) Migration
20234 citations

Africanías Revista de literaturas

Deconstructing the figure of the dictator in Ramón Esono Ebalé’s La pesadilla de Obi

2023Journal of the African Literature AssociationJournalFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1080/21674736.2023.2178721

Activismo afro en España Una entrevista con Desirée Bela-Lobedde

2023Women’s Perspectives on (Post) MigrationJournalFirst author3 citations

Coping to Survive? A Study of Female “Afro-Diasporic” Actors of Spain

2023Women’s Perspectives on (Post) MigrationJournalFirst author4 citations

Journeys across time, space, memory, and life: Ekomo as a feminist travel narrative

2022Kairos: A Journal of Critical SymposiumJournalSenior author2 citations

Reconfigurations of the Female Protagonist in Hispanophone African Literature

2021In and Out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American ConnectionsConferenceFirst author4 citations

La miliciana Ada y la dinámica de poder en la Literatura africana hispanófona

2015Epos Revista de filologíaJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.5944/epos.31.2015.17347

Mujer, voz, poder, sexualidad: la miliciana Ada dentro del corpus de la literatura guineoecuatoriana

2015África y escrituras periféricas: horizontes comparativosConferenceFirst author2 citations

In and Out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections

2012Cambridge Scholars PublishingReportFirst author13 citations

CHAPTER SIX RE-CONFIGURATIONS OF THE FEMALE PROTAGONIST IN HISPANOPHONE LITERATURE JOANNA BOAMPONG

2012In and Out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American ConnectionsJournalFirst author0 citations

Identity Meets Nationality: Voices from the Humanities1

Journal of the African Literature Association1

How it can be read

67% free to read, of the 3 recorded

Diamond 2 · 13%Free to read and to publish
Closed 1 · 7%Behind a paywall
Unknown 12 · 80%Not recorded by the source

Reconfigurations of the Female Protagonist in Hispanophone African Literature

In and Out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections

20214 citations