Title/Qualifications: PhD (Literature) Department/Unit/Section: Literature, Linguistics, and Foreign Languages Contact Address: 43844-00100 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Position: Lecturer Area of Specialization:  Life Writings (Political Auto/Biography), Cultural and Gender Studies Research Interests: Subaltern Studies, Intersectionality Studies, Social Media Communication, African Studies ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9648-9653 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uDL9YwYAAAAJ&hl=en Download full CV

Published Articles in Peer- Reviewed and Refereed Journals

• Mutie, Stephen and Dawuni, Jarpa. 2022. Intersectionality, access to justice and women’s experiences: Policy recommendations.In J. Jarpa Dawuni Intersectionality and Women’s Access to Justice in Africa (Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora).  Lexington Books

• Mutie, Stephen. 2022. Ethics of Memory, Contested Pasts and the Poetics of Recall: The Kenyan Political Autobiography. Postcolonial Text. Vol 17, No 4, pp. 1-24.

• Mutie, Stephen 2022. Re-membering Wangari Maathai’s Feminist Scholarship in her Autobiography Unbowed: One Woman’s Story. Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. JHEA/RESA Vol. 20, No. 1, 2022, pp. 67-84 (ISSN 0851–7762)

• Mutie, Stephen. 2022. Labelling and Othering: (Re)Engaging Wangari Maathai’s Madwoman Tag in Unbowed: A Memoir Imbizo : International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022)

• Mutie, Stephen 2021. Femicide and Judging Social Media as an Alternative Online Court in Kenya. Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa Selected Studies. Routledge. Pp.79-98. DOI: 10.4324/9780429327865-5

• Wachira, J. W., Goro, N. K., & Mutie, S. M. (2021). The crisis of post-colonial intellectual thought and knowledge production: Examining Jared Angira’s African revolutionary egalitarianism. Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 3(1). Retrieved from https://royalliteglobal.com/hybrid-literary/article/view/526
• Mutie, S. (forthcoming, in Press). Rethinking Feminist Scholarship in Kenya: A Conversation. Dakar: CODESRIA
• Mutie, S. (2020): Contesting the Subaltern Narrative: The Trickster Trope in the Kenyan Political Autobiography, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, Taylor and Francis, Routledge. DOI: 10.1080/23277408.2020.1735124
• Mutie, S, Ilieva, E. & Walunywa, J. (2019). Authorship and Audience: The Shaping of Kenyatta’s Identities in Suffering without Bitterness. Egerton Journal, Vol. XII, 2019: pp. 92-102
• Mutie, S. & Goro-Kamau, N. (2018). Ideographs of Resistance and Identity Construction in the Kenyan Political Autobiography. Coretrain Journal of Languages, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. Vol.1.2018, pp. 23-33.
• Mutie, S., Goro-Kamau, N. &Rutere, A. (2018). Subalternity and Resistance in the Kenyan Political Autobiography: A Critical Look at Not Yet Uhuru and The Flame of Freedom. Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy. Vol-2, Iss-5 (Sept-Oct, 2018): 476-483
• Mutie, S. (2018). “Self-mythologization in East African Political Writings: Kenyatta, Nyerere and Museveni.” Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. ISSN: 2327-7408 (Print) 2327-7416 (Online) http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1080/23277408.2017.141 3828
• Mutie, S., & Goro-Kamau, N. (2018) “Women, Patriarchy and Power: Perspectives from Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s Writings” Laikipia University journal of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities. Vol. 1(1) Pp. 100-109. ISSN No. 2301- 1010
• Mutie, S. (2017). “Rethinking Feminism in Post-colonial Kenya: A Critical Look at Two Kenyan Female Writers’ Novels.” Cardinal Rugambwa Journal of Educational Research (CARJER). ISSN: 2467 – 4826, Vol. 1 (1), pp. 19 – 30. http://carumuco.ac.tz
• Mutie, S. (2016). “Marjorie Oludhe, Your Literary Lamp Shines on” Saturday Nation, December 10th, pg. 31.
• Mutie, S., Kitonga, N., & Mang’oka S. (2016). “A Seed on Good Soil or a Seed on Rocks: Museveni’s Contestations with Political Language in Sowing the Mustard Seed” Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Vol. 21, 2016: pp. 7-11
• Mutie, S., et al. (2015). "Jomo Kenyatta’s Speeches and the Construction of the Identities of a Nationalist Leader in Kenya." English Language and Literature Studies; Vol.5, No. 2; pp. 53-64.
• Mutie, S., et al. (2015)."The Ghost Within: A Literary Study of East African Nationalist Leaders Writings." International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.Vol. 5, No. 6 (1). pp. 10-20.
• Mutie, S., and Somba, A. (2017). A Symbiotic Relationship between Creative Writing and Politics in Postcolonial Africa. Mara International Journal of Social Sciences Research Publication,Vol. 1, No. 1, Pages 1 – 6
• Mutie, S., and Goro-Kamau, N. (forthcoming) “Women, Patriarchy and Power: Perspectives from Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s Writings” Laikipia University journal of Humanities and Education
• Mutie, S. (2012). “No Fence Sitting in Literature.” The Egerton Mirror. Issue No. 04. P.2
• Mutie, S. (2013). “Literature Department Does Us Proud.” The Egerton Mirror. Issue No. 05.P.2

Blog Articles

• Mutie, Stephen. 2022. Not yet Uhuru for Women: A Perspective of a Male Ally. https://www.africanwomeninlaw.com/post/not-yet-uhuru-for-women-a-perspective-of-a-male-ally
• Muthoka Mutie. 2022. As we go to the polls, let’s be wary of political narcissists. Saturday Nation. https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/weekend/as-we-go-to-the-polls-let-s-be-wary-of-political-narcissists-3806670
• Mutie, Stephen. 2021. Effie Owuor: First Woman Judge (Kenya). Pioneer Women in Law. https://www.africanwomeninlaw.com/african-women-in-law/Effie-Owuor
• Muthoka Mutie. 2020. Benefiting from our collective misfortune is senseless, satanic. Saturday Nation. https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/weekend/-benefiting-from-our-collective-misfortune-is-senseless-satanic-1923314

Books Published

• Mutie, S. (2013). A Study Guide to When the Sun Goes Down and Other Stories from Africa and Beyond. Nairobi: Palm Shade Publishers.
• Mutie, S. (2016). The Devil’s Empire. Nairobi: Palm Shade Publishers.
• Mutie, S. forthcoming (2017). Kamba Mythology, Witchcraft and the Ethos of Political Elusivity.

Workshop/Conference Participation

• The 3rd National Conference on Access to Justice, 14th-19th November 2022; Venue: Lake Naivasha SimbaLodge. Title of Paper: Closing Online Civic Spaces in Kenya’s Electoral Process? A Focus on the 2022 General Elections
• The 2022 International Conference of the Moi University African Cluster Centre of the Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies (Moi–ACC). Themed: The Kenyans Abroad – or the world “as a place” workshop; Thursday 17 March - Friday 18 March 2022. Title of Paper: “The South in the North”: Worlding Kenyanness in Alex Chamwada’s TV series Daring Abroad
• The 2021 International Conference of the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, with the theme: The Renaissance of African Culture: Music, Crafts, Language, Literature and Folklore. 9-10, Dec. 2021, Abuja, Nigeria (Virtual). Title of Paper: Cross-pollination, Engendering and (De)Otherising Africa’s Popular Songs on Tiktok’s Enchanted Space
• The 2021 CODESRIA’s gender Institute Workshop themed: Violence against Women and Girls in Africa’s civic spaces (La violence faite aux filles et aux femmes dans les espaces civiques en Afrique) 19 – 30 July/juillet 2021: Presented a paper entitled “Revisiting the Mad Tag as Virtual Violence against Women and Girls in East Africa’s Shrinking Civic Spaces.” Virtual.
• 1st-Pan-African-Co2-Compensation Certification Conference Greening Africa Together GATO-CCCC June 23 to 25 2021. Principal venue Laikipia University, in parallel at GATo Network member universities in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, DRCongo, Kenya, Senegal, Togo, Uganda online worldwide
• The Intersectionality and Critical Diversity Literacy (ICDL) Lecture / Workshop Series organized by the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence in Bayreuth University. Attended the workshop on 6^th to 8^th 2020. Presented a paper on Wangari Maathai’s Intersectional Environmentalism Praxis.
• CODESRIA Gender Institute, Feminist Scholarship, Universities and Social Transformation, Dakar Senegal, May 14 May 25th 2018
• Egerton University 11th international Conference and Innovation Week, 29th- 31st March 2017, Egerton, Njoro, Kenya
• 3rd Chuka University International Research Conference, 26th to 28th October, 2016, Chuka University, Kenya
• Laikipia University, Nakuru Campus CORETRAIN (Consultancy, Research and Training) proposal writing workshop, 6th August, 2016
• Workshop on Teaching and Researching in Education. Organised by MKU in Safari Park Hotel, Nakuru, May 6th – 9th. 2015
• Yatta English/Literature Teachers’ Workshop. Machakos High School. Organized by East African Educational Publishers. Co-facilitator, 2014

Conference Presentations

• Dr Stephen Mutie:Kikamba, the Language of the (Un)seen: Polarity, Power and Mother Language Kenyatta University, Kenya.Friday, 19th February 2021 0.00USD
• Dr Stephen Mutie:African Intersectional Feminism(s) and Wangari Maathai’s Praxis University of Bayreuth, German February 6-8, 2020 ,3000USD,Africa Multiple - Cluster of Excellence
• Dr Stephen Mutie: Femicide and Judging: Social Media as an Alternative Online Court in Kenya.Institute of African Studies/University of Ghana, Legon, Accra Ghana 8-10 August 2019,1000USD Programme Point Sud and Goethe University, Frankfurt Main
• Dr Stephen Mutie:Rethinking Feminist Scholarship in Kenya: A ConversationSenegal, Dakar May 14 May 25th 2018 3000USD,CODESRIA

Book Reviews and Reports

• Ghost and the Fortune Hunters by Goro wa Kamau, Longhorn Publishers, 2016 (Daily Nation
• Trapped Tales by Dr. Samuel Abonyo, Pangolin Publishers, 2014
• The Passionate Affair by Adrian Onyando, Pangolin Publishers, 2012
• The Mirage by Jerrie Mutuku, Scholar Space Publishers International, USA. 2011

Administrative duties

• Departmental CEP and DSVOL coordinator, Literature section
• Departmental Module/Content uploader
• Departmental timetabler

Module developer and Vetter