Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng

Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng studies 20th c. narratives and politics of racial formation. A doctoral student in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Motsoeneng holds an MFA in Prose from the Helen Zell Writers' Program. 

Motsoeneng writes fiction about Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was born and raised. He has received the Geoffrey Gosling Prize, the Avery Hopwood Prize, and the Frederick Busch Award, among others, for the novel. Motsoeneng's work appears in the Michigan Quarterly Review (Online), Prairie Schooner, Kinfolk, Joyland Magazine, and others. 

Research interests: 

• Global Anglophone
• Black Studies 
• The Novel 
• Memory/Remembrance 
• Modernism and modernity