Prof Thabisani Ndlovu is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at Walter Sisulu University. He is a C2 NRF-rated literary and cultural studies scholar, focusing on identities.   His interdisciplinary work focuses on the intersection(s) of race, gender and class in Southern Africa. Deploying this approach, the overarching subjects he has written on include literary imaginations of human rights, nation and nationhood, monuments and memorialisation, migration, masculinities, black middle classness, and whiteness. Thabisani was as a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in 2019 and 2020. Before joining WSU, he was lecturer and Deputy Director at The International Human Rights Exchange Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand.