Mr Mxolisi Malimela
Lecturer
Qualifications:
BA Hons in African Studies (Literature and Culture), MPhil in African Studies (Literature and Culture) (University of Cape Town)
About
Mr Mxolisi Malimela teaches literature in the Department of English, where he also serves as the Co-ordinator for the English 3 modules. He sits on the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) Community Engagement committee and leads the English Department’s Community Engagement (CE) committee, overseeing initiatives such as the UniZulu Book Club project, a registered CE project that partners with local high schools and the National Library of South Africa (NLSA). Malimela chaired the successful 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Language, Disciplinarity and Knowledge Production in 2024. He has been appointed Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel in 2010 and again in 2015, and at the Centre for Caribbean Thought in 2010. His scholarship focuses on African literary studies, postcolonial theory, decolonisation, literary theory and criticism, representation, close reading, and critical engagements with decolonial narratives, identity formation, and socio-political transitions in Southern Africa. His work further explores literary responses to post-apartheid disillusionment, transnational African intellectual dialogues, and curriculum decolonisation, emphasising literature’s role in shaping ethical futures for the continent.
Research Interests
- African literary studies
- Decolonisation
- Discourse Analysis and close reading
- Literary theory/criticism and politics
- Postcolonialism
- Southern African Literary Decoloniality
Research Databases / Publications