Professor Polo Moji is an Associate Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town with a PhD from Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. She is a literary scholar with research interests in intersectional feminisms, comparative anglophone and francophone African and Afrodiasporic literatures, as well as critical black geographies. She is a principal investigator on the NRF funded African Literary Cities research project.

Her co-edited special journal issues include:  “Ghostly Border Crossings: Europe in African and Afrodiasporic Narratives” (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2019) and “The Cinematic City: Desire, Form And The African Urban” (Journal Of African Cinemas , 2019). She is also the co-editor of Cinematic Imaginaries Of The African City (Routledge, 2023) and the forthcoming edited volume Conversational Bridges: Building African Feminisms (HSRC Press, 2025). 

Moji’s monograph Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) won the 2024 African Literature Association First Book Award.