Gabeba Baderoon

Gabeba Baderoon is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and Comparative Literature and holds courtesy appointments in the Social Thought Program and the School of International Affairs. She co-directs the African Feminist Initiative at Penn State with Alicia Decker and Maha Marouan. Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town and has held Post-doctoral fellowships in the Africana Research Center and the “Islam, African Publics and Religious Values” Project. Among her honors are the Sarah Baartman Senior Fellowship at the University of Cape Town, an Extraordinary Professorship of English at Stellenbosch University, and fellowships at the African Gender Institute, the Nordic Africa Institute, Bellagio and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Baderoon is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-Apartheid, which received the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Best Non-fiction Monograph Award, and the poetry collections The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and The History of Intimacy, which have been recognized with the Daimler award, the Elisabeth Eybers Poetry Prize, the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing and a Best Poetry Book Award from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Baderoon also co-edited the award-winning essay collection, Surfacing: on Being Black and Feminist, with Desiree Lewis.

Books

The Dream in the Next Body (Kwela/Snailpress, 2005) https://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id=9780795701979

A hundred silences (Kwela/Snailpress, 2006), https://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id=9780795702280

The History of Intimacy (Kwela, 2018, Northwestern, 2021), https://www.nb.co.za/en/view-book/?id=9780795708886

Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-Apartheid (Wits, 2014), https://archivewitspress.co.za/catalogue/regarding-muslims/

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa (Wits, 2021), https://archivewitspress.co.za/catalogue/surfacing/

Affiliate Professor Baderoon wins 2019 University of Johannesburg prize for latest book