Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi 

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests include Global Black intellectual history and cultural studies as well as Caribbean, African, and African American literatures. She has published in journals like Small Axe, Callaloo, and The Black Scholar, for which she co-edited a special issue on “Black Studies in South Africa.” Her forthcoming book, Ends of Empire, Black Liberation, will appear next year in the Columbia University Press Black Lives in the Diaspora series and Wits Press. The book argues for a new method of Black Studies, excavating the print cultures of Black migrants to Cape Town from the Caribbean, the US, West Africa and other parts of South Africa before the rise of anti-colonial nationalism. Collis-Buthelezi is co-editor of The Caribbean Race Reader (2024), the first collection in English of primary sources and critical thought on the Caribbean and race-making. She is a research associate of the Institute of Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University and a member of the Other Universals Collective. She serves on the Small Axe editorial committee and as an editor of Polity’s Critical South book series. She sits on the Global Advisory Board of the Center of Global Black Studies at the University of Miami and Association of Global Political Thought (Harvard). Previously, Collis-Buthelezi held posts at the University of Cape Town and WiSER and was the inaugural Director of UJ's Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class.