About
After completing my first degree in English (ISP/Bukavu-DR Congo) in 2006, I worked as both secondary school EFL teacher and university teaching assistant for 3 years. I then moved into SGBV projects as Transition Officer, and into Banro Congo Mining company as Administration Associate to provide language training and Public Relations support on mining exploration sites. In 2013, I came to the UK to start my MA in Literary Stylistics (University of Birmingham-UK), funded by both the University of Birmingham's International Scholarship and an All Saints Trust Overseas' scholarship. I returned back to the DR Congo in 2015 and took up university teaching (Universite Officielle de Bukavu) in Literary Theory and Criticism, Modernist Literature, and Narrative Analysis in Fiction and Film, besides consultancy with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture in Gender Research and Training. In 2018 I moved to Sydney/Australia to start a PhD in English Literary Studies, funded by UNSW-Sydney's flagship funding scheme, Scientia PhD scholarship. During my PhD candidature, I was nominated by UNSW-Sydney's School of the Arts and Media to attend the 2019 Harvard Institute for World Literature session, during which I assisted Harvard University's Professor David Damrosch in the translation of Giambatista Viko; or, The Rape of African Discourse (https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/MLA-Texts-and-Translations/Giambatista-Viko-or-The-Rape-of-African-Discourse). Upon completing my PhD, I took up university teaching in Australia, on a range of courses including Academic Writing for Undergraduate Arts Students (University of Sydney); Colonialism, Resistance, Justice and Transition; Media, Culture and Everyday Life; Understanding Digital Cultures, Media, Climate Crisis, and Extinction; Race, Media, and Politics; Transnational Media (UNSW-Sydney); Communicating Difference; and Comparing Indigenous Histories and Politics (UTS).