Staff Profile

Qualifications:

• DPhil English 2019 
• Masters in English (MEL) 2013
• BA Hons English 2002

Research Interests:

• Interface between history and literature
• (Auto)biography
• Life writing
• Academic and Professional Communication
• Land literature
• Memory Studies

Publications

• Mandizvidza, S. 2024. Behind and Beyond the Bench: Challenges and Opportunities for Judicial Protection and the Attainment of Justice in Zimbabwe as Explored in Petina Gappah’s Rotten Row (2016). Imbizo, UNISA Press. https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/17315
• Chidora, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2024. Introduction: Revisiting Flora’s Dambudzo. Matatu 55 (2024): 1-17. doi:10.1163/18757421-05501008
• Chidora, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2023. ‘The Intellectual Legitimation of Zimbabwe’s Sell-out Discourse.’ In Mujere, J., Mwatwara, L. and Nyakudya, M. (Eds). Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and Sell-outs. London/New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003222002 
• Mandizvidza, S. 2022. ‘Dariro: land, space and human relationships in Mungoshi’s Waiting for the Rain and selected short stories in Chirere’s Somewhere in this Country.’ In Muwati, I. (Ed). Dariro: The African Theory of Participation and Performance. UZ Press.
• Matsika, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2022. ‘The politics of sustainability: Discourse Interventions and Intersections in Post-2000 Zimbabwean Policy Texts.’ In Mukaro, L., Ncube, G., Mushangwe, H., Chipara, M. and Gwatirisa, Y. UNLOCKING An Untapped Potential: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language and Development in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. Harare: UZ Press.
• Chidora, T., Mandizvidza, S. and Chibvamushure, B. 2019. The Feminine and the Subaltern in Literary Imaginations: An Ecofeminist Reading of Chenjerai Hove’s Bones. Zambezia 2019 Special Issue: Perspectives on Gender in Zimbabwe.
• Mandizvidza, S., Mateveke, P., Kufakurinani, U. and Chidora, T. 2019. Perspectives on
  Gender in Zimbabwe. Zambezia 2019 Special Issue: Perspectives on Gender in Zimbabwe.
• Mandizvidza, S. and Chidora, T. 2018. Exilic Consciousness and the Ambivalent Fate of the Exiled in Zimbabwean fiction with special reference to Chikwava’s Harare North (2009). Zambezia, 44(3): 47-65.
• Chidora, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2017. Utopian and Dystopian Homecomings in Olley
  Maruma’s Coming Home and Shimmer Chinodya’s Harvest of Thorns. Pivot: Shattered, 6(1): 52-74.
• Mandizvidza, S. and Magosvongwe, R. 2017. Land and Sustainable Futures for All from a Gendered Perspective: Insights from The Trek and other Stories (L. Hoba) and Red Soils (S. Ndlovu, 2016). Zambezia, 46(ii): 54-65.
• Mandizvidza, S. and Chidora, T. 2016. ‘Listening to Conrad’s Heart of Darkness speaking to Africa: An open-minded approach.’ In Magosvongwe, R., Mlambo, O. B. and Ndlovu, E. (Eds). Africa’s Intangible Heritage and Land: Emerging Perspectives. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publishers. pp 183-196.
• Chidora, T. and Mandizvidza, S. 2015. ‘From Labourer to Farm-owner: An Evaluation of the Legitimacy of the Black Farm Labourer as an Owner of Land in Chenjerai Hove’s Bones.’ In Makwavarara, Z., Magosvongwe, R. and Mlambo, O. B. (Eds). Dialoguing Land and Indigenisation in Zimbabwe and other Developing Countries: Emerging  Perspectives. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publishers. pp 340-355.