Florence Madenga

Florence Zivaishe Madenga (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Department and the African and African Diaspora Studies program at Boston College. She holds a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, alongside a B.A. in Journalism and Politics and an interdisciplinary M.A. from New York University.

• Research focuses on journalistic practice, state censorship on digital platforms, satire journalism in Zimbabwe, 'Black journalism' in the U.S., and African diaspora popular culture.
• Prior roles include a George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellowship at Annenberg and visiting instructor at Swarthmore College.

Her scholarship appears in Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society, and Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, alongside media outlets like Buzzfeed and Chimurenga.