Tinashe Mushakavanhu
St Anne's College, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT)
Position: Junior Research Fellow in African & Comparative Literature
Research interests: African literature, digital humanities, literary archives
Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a Junior Research Fellow in African & Comparative Literature at the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT), St Anne's College. He holds a PhD in English from University of Kent (England) and completed postdoctoral work at University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa).
He has an interest in literary archives from southern Africa and interrogates issues to do with literary legacies. Apart from writing journal articles, book chapters, this work also manifests through a series of creative publications, exhibitions and digital humanities projects.
His forthcoming publications include A Brief History of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and an intellectual biography of Dambudzo Marechera (contracted with Routledge).
