Professor Andy Carolin (University of Johannesburg) has a PhD in English literature from the University of Johannesburg (2017). He is the author of a monograph titled Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities: Restless Identities in Literary and Visual Culture (Routledge 2021), which received the UJ Vice Chancellor Award for Book of the Year (2022). He is also the recipient of the UJ Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2022). His research is located in the field of literary and cultural studies, and it focuses especially on the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and history. He holds a Y2 rating from the NRF.