Gibson Ncube

Gibson Ncube is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University. He has held fellowships supported by the Africa Oxford Initiative, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center (USA) and Leeds University Centre for African Studies (UK). He has published widely in the fields of comparative literature, gender and queer studies as well as cultural studies. He co-convened the Queer African Studies Association (2020-2022) and was the 2021 Mary Kingsley Zochonis Distinguished Lecturer (African Studies Association UK). He currently sits on the Editorial Boards of the following journals: Journal of Literary Studies, the Canadian Journal of African Studies, the Nordic Journal of African Studies as well as Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the South African Journal of African Languages and also the French Book Review Editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.