Dr Gibson Ncube

Gibson Ncube is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University. Dr Ncube is currently an AfOx TORCH Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, as part of the Africa Oxford Visiting Fellowship Programme.

Gibson Ncube holds a PhD from Stellenbosch University. He has received several research fellowships, including a Freestanding Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the National Research Foundation (South Africa), the African Humanities Program by the American Council for Learned Societies, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study Iso Lomso Fellowship, and a Virtual Fellowship at the Leeds University Centre for African Studies. He sits on several Editorial Boards, including the Journal of Literary Studies, Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies, the Canadian Journal of African Studies, the Nordic Journal of African Studies, and the Governing Intimacies in the Global South book series at Manchester University Press. Furthermore, he is the current French Book Review Editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies and the Assistant Editor of the South African Journal of African Languages. From 2020 to 2022, he served as co-convenor of the Queer African Studies Association. He was also the 2021 Mary Kingsley Zochonis Distinguished Lecturer of the Royal African Society and African Studies Association (UK). Currently, Gibson is a fellow of the Future Professors Programme (Department of Higher Education and Training, South Africa).

During his time in Oxford, Gibson will be working on a project about Queer Ecologies in Contemporary African Literature and Cinema. This study explores how literary and filmic texts creatively challenge normative frameworks that thrive on hierarchization and exclusion. Instead, they celebrate new forms of human and inter-species alliances and solidarities.

• Ncube, G. and van Klinken, A. Abdellah Taïa and an Emergent Queer African Islamic Discourse: Texts, Visibility and Intimate Archives. African Studies 1-18.
• Ncube, G. Queer, Christian and Afrikaans: the libidinal, sexuality and religion in Kanarie and Skeef. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 60,1: 22-30.
• Ncube, G. Queer (ing) freedom: rewriting coming-out narratives in contemporary Maghrebian literary production. Journal of the African Literature Association (2023)17.1: 70-86.
• Ncube, G. Queer(ing) freedom: rewriting coming-out narratives in contemporary Maghrebian literary production. Journal of the African Literature Association (2023): 1-17.
• Ncube, G. Queer Bodies in African Films. Grahamstown, South Africa: NISC, 2022.