Tendai Mangena obtained her PhD at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar in 2020 in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at the University of California, Riverside, USA. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Media Studies at Great Zimbabwe University and Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. She was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Postcolonial Literary and Cultural studies at Bremen University, in Germany from 2016 to 2018, and a Humboldt Visiting Fellow in the same department from July-August 2019. Her research interests include questions of gender, politics, power, and justice in African literature and onomastics. Her latest publication is Contested Criminalities in Zimbabwean Fiction (Routledge, 2019).
