Chido Muchemwa

Chido Muchemwa

Chido Muchemwa

PhD '23, Faculty of Information and the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies

Dr. Chido Muchemwa is a Zimbabwean writer currently living in Canada. In 2022, Muchemwa was a recipient of the Morland African Writing Scholarship. Her work has previously appeared in several literary reviews and journals, and she has been shortlisted twice for the Short Story Day Africa Prize and placed second in the Humber Literary Review’s 2020 Emerging Writers Fiction Contest. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming. Dr. Muchemwa graduated in 2023 with a PhD in Information from the Faculty of Information and the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research fields are critical archival studies, queer African studies and postcolonial studies. In her dissertation, Muchemwa theorized how queer people are defining non-normative sexualities in Zimbabwe by tracing the myriad ways they engage in social negotiations of identity, and the stories they tell.