Biography

Annette Wentworth, a poet, author, and essayist, holds a Master’s in Social Justice and International Studies in Education (cum laude) from the University of Alberta, Canada. She is currently working on completing her PhD on rural women’s lived experience and the remembrance of AIDS in South Africa and is the co-chair of the Africa Region of the Memory Studies Association. Her areas of interest and research are in post-colonial feminist memory and research, as well as arts-based, antiracist and decolonizing approaches. She is a 2023/24 Killam laureate (@Killam Trusts) and held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2020-2023). While originally from Canada, Annette worked with not-for-profit and community organisations in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa for over 15 years. She currently divides her time between Stellenbosch and the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Current Research Project

Annette is currently working on completing her PhD on rural women’s lived experience and the remembrance of AIDS in South Africa and is the co-chair of the Africa Region of the Memory Studies Association.

Email: annettew@sun.ac.za | Tel: +27 (21) 808 4047

Recent Publications:

Articles

Wentworth, A. (2024). On the Memory of Birds: A Meditation on Memory and Mourning AIDS Deaths in South Africa. Life Writing, 21(4), 675–684. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2024.2409077

Wentworth, A. (2021). Speaking in stitch: The Keiskamma Altarpiece as testimony to women’s experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 15(4), 276–285. https://doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2021.1944088