Bio

Athanas Mutisya is a Ph.D student at the Department of Literature Studies at the University of Nairobi. He holds a BA and MA (Literature) from the University of Nairobi. He is currently an auxiliary lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Umma University, and the South Eastern Kenya University. His research interests are in memory studies, war narratives, life narratives, women’s studies, and African Feminism. His Ph.D. research focuses on the autobiographies of ex-child soldiers in Africa, with the title of his dissertation being: Narrating Violence and Peace: War Memory in Selected Ex-Child Soldiers’ Autobiographies from Africa.