About

I am a scholar and researcher from Pretoria, South Africa, with Zimbabwean roots. I completed my tertiary studies in classical musicology and performance at the University of Pretoria. My postgraduate research projects were interdisciplinary, which is how I branched into cultural musicology, focusing on intersectional feminism, identity politics, and popular culture studies. For my doctorate, I explored Beyoncé’s negotiation of intersectionality through the visual albums Lemonade (2016) and Black Is King (2020) and how these were perceived in South Africa. I moved to Berlin in Spring 2024 for a postdoctoral position at the Chair of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures. In this post, my research interests and projects will centre on identity representations with a particular focus on Blackness. At the same time, my teaching will touch on various elements, including Afrofuturism, Pan-Africanism, Beyoncé, identity politics and popular culture.