Dr Chisomo Kalinga

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh

Dr Chisomo Kalinga is a Wellcome medical humanities postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her work investigates literary traditions and community health narratives in Malawi and its border countries. As part of the project, she collaborated with Chancellor College at the University of Malawi to launch the first medical humanities conference and network for Malawiana studies. She was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD was completed at King’s College London (2014) and offered a comparative study of Malawian and American AIDS fiction. Her research interests are sexuality, health, wellbeing, traditional healing and witchcraft and their narrative representation in African print and oral literatures.

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