HUMA Doctoral Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr. Gibson Ncube (Stellenbosch University) 
In this paper, I draw on my experiences as an African studies researcher and scholar in Africa. I drew heavily on my own experience while writing my most recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films (2022). I consider the complexities of conducting research in African studies by focusing on two interconnected issues: the geographical partitioning of the continent and the division of the continent based on colonial languages.

About the speaker: 
Dr Gibson Ncube holds a PhD from Stellenbosch University where he currently lectures in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages. He has held several research fellowships that include a Freestanding Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the NRF, the African Humanities Program by the American Council for Learned Societies, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study Iso Lomso Fellowship as well as a Virtual Fellowship at the Leeds University Centre for African Studies. He sits on several Editorial Boards that include the Journal of Literary Studies, Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies, the Canadian Journal of African Studies, the Nordic Journal of African Studies as well as the Governing Intimacies in the Global South book series at Manchester University Press. He is the current French Book Review Editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies and the Assistant Editor of the South African Journal of African Languages. From 2020 to 2022, he served as co-convenor of the Queer African Studies Association. He was the 2021 Mary Kingsley Zochonis Distinguished Lecturer of the Royal African Society and African Studies Association (UK). He holds a C1 NRF rating and is a current fellow of the DHET Future Professors Programme.

Convenor: Ayanda Manqoyi, HUMA Programme Administrator: Postgraduate Development. See profile

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