Associate Professor/ Professor in African Literary Archive

CORE PURPOSE OF JOB
Nelson Mandela University's Humanities Faculty seeks a distinguished scholar to take up the strategic role of special Associate Professor/Full Professor of the African Literary Archive. The Associate Professor/Professor of African Literary Archive will support the Faculty’s strategy to revitalize the Humanities and reignite their catalytic role in the academy, and reposition the Faculty as a leader in the area of African Literary Archive regionally, continentally and internationally. They will advance scholarship on the African Archive, particularly the vast archive of 19th-century southern African historical literatures, newspapers, and other texts written in African languages by early African literates. We seek a scholar who is eager to shape the knowledge field of these African intellectual traditions and connect them to the longer histories of oratures and the multiplicities of indigenous literary forms. This is a transdisciplinary professorship at the inter...