Information on the Chair in African Feminist Imagination

Prof Pumla Dineo Gqola is Full Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies. She has been Professor in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and Classical Culture at the University of the Free State (UFS), and Chief Research Specialist in the Societies, Cultures and Identities Research Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). She has designed and taught courses on South African Literature, Postcolonial Humour, Slave Memory in South Africa and the Caribbean, Gender and Media, Writing slavery from the African World, and Writing Gender in African Literature.

Gqola holds two MA degrees in Literature from the Universities of Cape Town (UCT) and Warwick, UK and doctorate in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Munich (LMU) in Germany.

In addition to Editorial Boards of several leading African, Literary and Feminist studies journals, Gqola has also served on the Boards of the 1in9 Campaign (link to: https://www.saferspaces.org.za/organisation/entry/one-in-nine-campaign, the Centre for Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) (link to: https://www.csvr.org.za/, the African Feminist Strategic Litigation Firm, Women’s Legal Centre (link to: https://wlce.co.za/). In 2019, she was appointed to the Ministerial Task Team on Sexual Harassment and Gender Based Violence at South African Universities.

Google scholar profile:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=a7LSK8YAAAAJ

ORCiD profile:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7717-0129