Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu
The central theme of Tinashe’s research is the role of literary culture in documentation, historical knowledge, and political power. He has particular interests in the aesthetics and materiality of writing; archives, and archival theory; translation; African and diaspora literatures, digital humanities, romanticism, creative writing, media studies, and comparative literatures. The work manifests in interdisciplinary modalities. It blurs creative and critical methods, and writing genres, in order to imaginatively reconfigure the strictures that conventionally separate the poetic and the theoretical. He is the auhor of A Brief History of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (Cambridge University Press, 2022 forthcoming); Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020) and Some Writers Can Give You Two Heartbeats (Black Chalk & Co. 2019)
African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network
The African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network has been awarded for two years (2022 - 2024).
In 2023, Tinashe also spent time at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria as a Javett-UP BRIDGE Fellow
