![]() ![]() In late 2020, she was awarded a National Research Foundation Research Chair in African Feminist Imaginations, dedicated to interdisciplinary gender scholarship. In May 2020, she joined the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Nelson Mandela University, where she is a professor in literature, specialising in African and postcolonial literature, African feminism, and slave memory. ![]() She has also been Chief Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council. ![]() In 2018, she was appointed Dean of Research at the University of Fort Hare. She worked at the University of the Free State from 1997 to 2005, and at the University of the Witwatersrand – where she was associate professor, and later full professor, in literary, media and gender studies at the School of Literature and Language Studies – from 2007 to 2017. She has a BA(Hons) and MA from the University of Cape Town, an MA from the University of Warwick, and a DPhil in postcolonial studies from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Gqola grew up in Alice in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. She is a professor of literature at Nelson Mandela University, where she holds the Research Chair in African Feminist Imaginations. Pumla Dineo Gqola (born 3 December 1972) is a South African academic, writer, and gender activist, best known for her 2015 book Rape: A South African Nightmare, which won the 2016 Alan Paton Award. Postcolonial literature, African literature, African feminism ![]()
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