Zuziwe Msomi: The effectiveness of stories

HUMA Doctoral Seminar Series

Speaker: Dr Zuziwe Msomi (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

The session takes the effectiveness of stories in learning from each other seriously. As an educational tool and therefore arguably as part of the academic journey, stories shape how well we think we are doing and therefore fit into what is considered a good researcher and academic. This session of the HUMA talks will share my personal journey in negotiating theoretical conundrums in research. These hopefully resonate with the journey that you (and I) are on as researchers.

About the speaker: Dr Zuziwe Msomi is a lecturer in the African Studies and Linguistics Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. As a graduate of the New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP), she completed her thesis in 2020 at UCT and is currently working on a monograph focusing on education, race, whiteness, and whiteness studies. Her latest publication is ‘Whose Gaze Matters? Re-thinking the ways in which whiteness studies research has traditionally been done', in Bouncing Back. Critical reflections on the resilience concept in Japan and South Africa. (T. Enomoto et al. (Eds), Langaa RPCIG, 2022).