Polo B. Moji  ( PhD Sorbonne Nouvelle,  Paris III) is an Associate Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. She is a literary scholar whose research interests range from intersectional feminisms, comparative anglophone / francophone African and Afrodiasporic literatures, as well as critical black geographies. She 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.