Dr. Josephine Muganiwa

Qualifications:

DLitt et Phil (English) (Unisa 2019), MA Literature in English (UZ 1999), BA Honours in English (UZ 1997), Post Graduate Diploma in Education (MSU 2003), Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (UTLC, UZ2000), Certificate in Systemic Counselling (Connect- ZIST2008), Certificate in Media: print, Radio and Television (PROWEB 2010)

Academic Appointments:

Lecturer in Language and literature at the University of Zimbabwe for the past two decades. She has taught at various universities in Zimbabwe as a founder Faculty member at Midlands State University, sabbatical scholar at Africa University

Research Interests:

Gender, culture and genres of literature. A passion enhanced by her OSSREA training in Gender Mainstreaming.

Faculty: Arts and Humanities

Department: Languages Literature and Culture

Research Category: Arts

Biography:

Has been a lecturer for literature in English for the past 2 decades. She has taught at various universities in Zimbabwe as a founder faculty member at Midlands State University, sabbatical scholar at Africa University. She is a literary critic with publications in international refereed journals and books. She has sat on literary adjudication panels including National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA), Cover to Cover, Noma Kitson. Josephine Muganiwa is also a creative writer with short stories and poems in various anthologies.

Email: jmuganiwa1210@gmail.com

Phone: +263772317956

Publications:

Publications
Gudhlanga E., Muganiwa J. and Dube M. (ed) pending. African Literature, Mother Earth and Religion. Canada: Vernon publishers
Muganiwa J. “What have we done: A case study in embracing people with disabilities in Ben Hanson’s Takadini and Alumenda’s Anani the Albino boy” in Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies (JoALLS) Volume 1, Number 1, April 2020, pp93-106.
Muganiwa, J. 2019. “Remembering and healing postcolonial violence: An analysis of Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother” in National Healing, Integration and Reconcilliation in Zimbabwe (ed Ezra Chitando) UK: Taylor and Francis Group.
Muganiwa J. 2019. “Zimbabwean Literary Representations of Homosexuality and Belonging” in Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa. Volume 2. (ed. James N. Amanze, Maake Masango, Ezra Chitando and Lilian Siwila). Malawi: Mzuni Press.
Muganiwa J. 2018. Christopher Mlalazi’s representation of violence in Running with Mother, Research in African Genocide, Volume 1, Number 1, pp 81-96.
Muganiwa, J.2017. ‘Prophecy or profit: a critical analysis of Patony Musendo’s Emmaculate Calling’ in Neo Pentecostalism in Southern Africasome critical reflections (ed. Herman Krosbergen). Wellington, SA: Christian Literature Fund.
Muganiwa, J. ‘Delicate years: children and identity in Zimbabwean literature’ in Commonwealth Youth and Development, Volume15, Number, 2017 pp1- 12.
Muganiwa, J. 2016. ‘Souls of Black Folk: Spiritual and Cultural Heritage in The Book of Not and Shards’ in Africa’s Intangible Heritage & Land (ed. Ruby Magosvongwe, Obert Mlambo and Eventhough Ndhlovu). Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications.
Muganiwa, J. ‘The Use of Understatement in Memory Chirere’s Bhuku Risina Basa nekuti rakanyorwa Masikati’ in Journal of Indigenous Languages and Literature Volume 1 Number 1, 2016 pp65-75.
Muganiwa, J. ‘The significance of land and culture in selected texts by Chenjerai Hove’ Imbizo International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies Volume7 (1) 2016 pp64-73.
Muganiwa, J. ‘With Jesus in My Boat I Can Smile at the Storm: An analysis of poems and Short stories by Children Living With Disabilities’ in Journal of Disability and Religion Volume 20, 2016, Issue 1-2 pp18-28.
Muganiwa, J. 2015. ‘Armed with Hope: Women and Survival in Zimbabwe’ in The Art of Surviving: Depictions of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean Crisis (ed. A. Chitando, A. M. Madongonda and J. Chikowero) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Muganiwa J. and Mangena, F. 2015. ‘The Development Paradigm in three Zimbabwean literary texts: A Philosophical Analysis’ in Philosophy in African Tradition and Cultures: Zimbawe Philosophical Studies, II. (ed. Mangena, Chimuka and Mabiri). Washington D.C: The Council for 12 Research in Values and Philosophy.
(Muganiwa, J. Edited) Nhanhanga, S. 2015. A Shower of Poetic Vistas. Harare: Zimbabwe Women Writers.
Muganiwa, J. 2014. ‘The use of Magic realism for a postcolonial critique of India in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children” in The Image, Inverted and Real: Indian Booker Awardees (ed. Dr. Vivekanand Jha & Dr. Rajnish Mishra. (book chapter) New Delhi: Authorpress.
Muganiwa, J. ‘An analysis of the portrayal of women in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Strange Pilgrims’ in UNISA Latin American Report Vol.30 No. 1 2014.
Muganiwa, J. 2014. ‘Popular conceptions of Christianity in Zimbabwe as reflected in selected literary texts” chapter in Herman Kroesbegen (ed)Christian Identity and Justice in a Globalised World. Wellington: CFL.
Muganiwa, J. ‘We need new names: by NoViolet Bulawayo. London: Reagan Arthur Books, 2013, pp290: review’ in Journal for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Namibia, Volume 2 number 2, December 2013, pp188-190.
Muganiwa, J. 2013. ‘Twelve Years On: The Personal Reflections of an Academic on whether the Zimbabwe University is Still a Transformative Space’ in Complexities of Transformation in Zimbabwe. (ed. Manyeruke, C. & Phiri, G.C.) Harare: OSSREA- Zimbabwe Chapter.
Muganiwa, J. ‘A Comparative Analysis of Characters in Mia Couto’s The Blind Fisherman (2010) and Naipaul’s Miguel Street (1959)’ UNISA LATIN AMERICAN REPORT, Volume 28 number 2 2012 pp376-383.
Muganiwa, J. 2012. Where did the African leaders go wrong?: An analysis of selected texts by Ayi Kwei Armah and Peter Abrahams. Germany: LAPLambert Academic Publishing
Muganiwa, J. 2011. Ghetto Diary and other poems (ed. M.Z.Mbire) Harare: ZPH Publishers

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She has sat on literary adjudication panels including National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA), Cover to Cover, Noma Kitson. OSSREA training in Gender Mainstreaming.