Tendai Mangena

I have worked as a British Academy Global Professor at the University of Leeds’ School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, and the Leeds University Centre for African Studies since February 2023. I have also been a Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of the Free State in South Africa since 2017.

Before joining the University of Leeds I was an Associate Professor in the English and Media Studies Department at Great Zimbabwe University, where I taught African literature. I received my PhD in African literature from Leiden University in 2015.

Since then, I have held different research fellowships that include the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship and Fulbright Research Scholarship in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at the University of California (Riverside) in the US.

My research interests lie at the intersections of African/Zimbabwean literary and cultural studies, including onomastics, with a focus on questions of gender, sexuality, politics, power and (in)justice.