Robert Muponde

Robert Muponde is a critic, editor, writer and Professor in the School of Literature, Language and Media at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is interested in a variety of postcolonial literary topics, including visual art, creative writing and the politics of aesthetic redress and genre-busting. His publications include: The Scandalous Times of a Book Louse: A Memoir of a Childhood (Penguin Random House, 2021) and Some Kinds of Childhood: Images of History and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature (Africa World Press, 2015). With Emma Laurence he co-edited While the Harvest Rots: Possessing Worlds of Kudzanai Chiurai’s Art (Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery, 2017). Currently, he is researching material for The Lost Tales of Papati Papati Hiyayi, a book that focuses on experiences of lostness.