Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Director of UJ’s Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class. She holds a Research Affiliate position at Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies (JIAS). Her research focuses on Black intellectual and literary histories, with emphasis on Caribbean, African, and African American literatures. Current projects include a book exploring global frameworks for understanding Blackness in early 20th-century Cape Town, analyzing print cultures of Black migrants from the Caribbean, the U.S., and West Africa.

She co-edited a special issue on ‘Black Studies in South Africa’ for The Black Scholar and serves on editorial committees for Small Axe and the Polity Critical South series. Her work appears in journals like Small Axe, Callaloo, and boundary2.

Collis-Buthelezi previously held roles at the University of Cape Town and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). She is affiliated with the Other Universals Collective, a transnational network studying intellectual exchanges across Africa, the Caribbean, Middle East, and South Asia.