Fatima Fiona Moolla is a Professor in the English Department and the Deputy Dean of Research and Postgraduate Study in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. She is an NRF C2-Rated researcher, and the author of Reading Nuruddin Farah: The Individual, the Novel & the Idea of Home (James Currey, 2014), and the editor of Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms (WITS UP, 2016), among numerous other academic and non-academic publications.

Romantic love in African literature and culture is her current field of interest, where she is co-editor of the Routledge History of Love in World Literature and Culture. Other publications focus on the areas of love and revolution, African popular romance, cross-cultural transformations of the romance plot, love and marriage, love as a universal, and (trans)national allegories of love. Attention to the epistemological, historical and cultural contexts of conceptions of the subject, including the subject in love, subtends all her enquiries.

Prof Moolla has won many research and creative writing awards, is on the editorial boards of prestigious national and international journals, and a member of a university international advisory committee. She is the coordinator of Mellon projects, an EU-funded intra-Africa mobility project, and the UWC coordinator of the partnership with the Human Sciences Research Council. She was part of the task team that drew up the UWC Institutional Operating Plan 2020-2025, and was a panellist on a CHE national PhD review panel. Prof Moolla is an experienced award-winning undergraduate and postgraduate teacher and has supervised numerous students from HONS to PhD.