Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is Interim Director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) and Director of UJ’s Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class. She is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Johannesburg and a research associate at the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University. Prof Collis-Buthelezi’s research centers Black intellectual and literary histories and has appeared in Small Axe, Callaloo, boundary2 and the UK Journal of Arts and the Humanities. Her current book project explores global frames for understanding Blackness in early twentieth century Cape Town. She is co-editor of the first edited collection of primary sources and thought on race in the Caribbean, entitled The Caribbean Race Reader, set for release later this year. Prof Collis-Buthelezi is on the editorial committee for Small Axe and an editor of the Polity Critical South book series as well as Peter Lang’s Race and Resistance in the Long Twentieth Century.