2007-2011, University of the Witwatersrand, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD); 2003-2005, University of Malawi, Masters; 1998-2002, University of Malawi, Bachelors; 

2014-2018, University of Malawi, Associate Professor of English ; 2014-2016, University of Malawi, Dean, Faculty of Humanities; 2013-2014, University of Malawi, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Humanities; 2011-2014, University of Malawi, Senior Lecturer; 2005-2010, University of Malawi, Lecturer; 2002-2005, University of Malawi, Staff Associate; 

Book Chapters

Syned Mthatiwa, "Animals, Nostalgia, and Zimbabwe’s Rural Landscape in the Poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura Zimunya," In Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms. Edited by F. Fiona Moolla (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016): 276-303

Syned Mthatiwa, "Chromosome Cousins and Familiar Strangers: Relational Selfhood in Chris Mann’s Ecopoetry." In ECO-IMAGINATION: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability. Edited by Irène Assiba d’Almeida, Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson and Thelma Pinto (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2014): 123-138

Selected Articles

Syned Mthatiwa,“Home and belonging in Irene Sabatini's The Boy Next Door and Andrea Eames' The Cry of the Go-Away Bird," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2018): 1–13. DOI: 10.1177/0021989417749265

Syned Mthatiwa, "Nature and Identity in the Poetry of Bart Wolffe." Research in African Literatures 45.4 (Winter 2014): 70-88

Syned Mthatiwa,“Faces of an African City: Versions of Harare in the Poetry of Musaemura Zimunya and Chenjerai Hove.” Journal of Humanities 23 (2013/2014): 190-212.

Syned Mthatiwa,“Subjectivity and Belonging in the Poetry of Bart Wolffe." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 26:1 (2014): 91-99.

Syned Mthatiwa,“Bird Metaphors in Jack Mapanje’s The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison and Skipping Without Ropes.” Alternation: Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa 16.2 (2009): 13-34

Awards

African Literature Association (ALA) Travel Grant to the ALA Conference in Tucson, Arizona, USA. 10 – 14 March 2010.

WISER Doctoral Fellowship, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2007-2011)

Post-graduate Merit Award, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2007 -2009)

Cannon Collins Scholarship for Southern Africa (2007).

Memorable moment

Participation at the The 11th Global Confucius Institute Conference, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. 10-11 December 2016