MA and PhD, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III)

Office: Room 110A, AC Jordan Building
Email: polo.moji@uct.ac.za

Polo Moji is a literary scholar whose research interests range from intersectional feminisms, comparative anglophone / francophone African and Afrodiasporic literatures, as well as critical black geographies. She has co-edited the special journal issues "Ghostly Border-Crossings: Europe in Afrodiasporic Narratives'' (2019), "The Cinematic City: Desire, Form and the African Urban'' (2019) and “Cinematic Imaginaries of the African City” (2021).

She has published articles in journals such as Cultural Studies, The Journal of African Cultural Studies and Agenda, as well as book chapters in Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture (Routledge, 2017) and Spaces of Longing and Belonging: Spatiality (Brill, 2019). Her recently published monograph is Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) and she is currently co-editing a collective monograph provisionally titled Conversational Bridges in African Feminism: Theory, Praxis, Solidarities.

Research Interests

• African & Afrodiasporic Literatures
• Literatures in Translation (French/ Francophone)
• Intersectional Feminisms
• Hauntology and Sociological Imaginaries
• Critical Black /Urban Geographies 

 

Selected Publications

Books

Moji, P.B. Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives. London & New York: Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies Series, March 2022. ISBN 9780367637514

Edited Special Issues / Collective Volumes

Moji, P., Mupotsa D. & Himmelman N. (eds). The Cinematic City: Desire, Form and the African Urban (Special Issue). Journal of African Cinemas. Volume 11, Number 3, Intellect Books, Bristol & Wilmington (NC), 1 December 2019,  ISSN 1754-9221 (Print); ISSN 1754-923X (Online)

Moji, P. & Himmelman N. (eds). Special Issue: Ghostly border-crossings: Europe in African and Afrodiasporic narratives, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, Vol 56 No 1, University of Pretoria, 29 April 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.56i1.6265  

Book Chapters

Moji P. B. Home/land: Diasporic Space and Topologies of Relation in Nimrod’s L’Or des Rivières (Chad, 2010). Spaces of Longing and Belonging: Spatiality, Culture and Identity in Literature and Film, Editors: Bill Richardson and Brigitte Le Juez, Brill Rodopi. 2019, 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004402935_004

Moji, P. Literary Adventures in Francophone Afropea: Léonora Miano and Music as a Language of Afro-diasporic Subjectivity. Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture, Editors: Rachael Gilmour and Tamar Steinitz. September 2017. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series.,168-187. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315651675

 

Peer-reviewed Articles

Moji, P., (2022) Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (Senegal/France, 2003), Cultural Studies,  https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2104899

Moji, P. B. "Hyenas/hustlers: An Afrosur/realist reading of Touki Bouki (1973)." Journal of African Cinemas 11, no. 3 (2019): 193-205.  https://doi.org/10.1386/jac_00016_1

Moji, P. Divas and Deviance: Hip-Hop Feminism and Black Visuality in Lauren Ekué’s Icône Urbaine (2006). Agenda, Special Issue: Gender and the Popular imaginary. Routledge Taylor & Francis & UNISA Press, 28 August 2018, 10-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10130950.2018.1485287

Moji, P. (Un)Known Bodies: Dissecting Sara Baartman in the Francophone Autobiography, 53cm (Bessora,1999)).  Journal of the African Literature Association, Routledge Taylor and Francis & African Literature Association, 12 October 2017, 183-194. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21674736.2017.1375656

Moji, P. New Names, Translated Subjectivities: (Dis) location and (Re) naming in NoViolet Bulwayo’s We Need New Names, 2013 (Zimbabwe).  Journal of African Cultural Studies. Routledge Taylor & Francis, 6 January 2015, 181-190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2014.993937