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Storm Stories: Environmental Trauma and Literary Memory in the Wake of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi
Exploring how environmental disasters are represented, remembered, and narrated in literary and cultural texts.
University Professor
University of Malawi
Zomba, Malawi
Nick Mdika Tembo's main lines of research are in trauma and memory studies, climate change, and migration dynamics.
Nick Mdika Tembo is the 2024 Claude Ake Chair and Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Malawi. More recently, he edited Trauma in the Age of Social Media: Narrative and Representation (2025). He is also a recipient of the 2022 Hogan Prize for best essay in _a/b: Auto/Biography Studies_’s special issue Comic Lives.
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Storm Stories: Environmental Trauma and Literary Memory in the Wake of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi
Exploring how environmental disasters are represented, remembered, and narrated in literary and cultural texts.