Mthokozisi Ndhlovu
  • PhD Program

Biography

Mthokozisi Phathisani Ndhlovu is a PhD student at Texas A&M University, studying propaganda in the context of decolonizing international relations. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program award, and his research interests encompass a broad range of critical areas, including climate change communication, media and sexuality, decoloniality, propaganda, and media and international relations. He has contributed scholarly articles to journals such as Journalism, Media, Culture & Society, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Communication, and Crime, Media, Culture. In addition to his academic pursuits in the United States, he is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Zimbabwe.

 

Courses taught 

  • COMM 203: Public Speaking 
  • COMM 243: Argumentation and Debate 

Selected Publications

  • Ndhlovu, M.P. (2020). Examining Media Discourses on Religious Rape in Zimbabwe. Feminist Media Studies, 20:6, 801-812.

    Ndhlovu, M. P. (2021). The Fifth Estate Function: Analysing Climate Change Punditry in the Zimbabwean Newspaper Columns, Environmental Communication, 15:3, 418-429.

    Santos, P. and Ndhlovu, M.P. (2023). The Democratic Deficit of Reporting a Political Crisis in Zimbabwe. Journalism, 24:2, 363–379.

    Ndhlovu, M. P. (2023). Examining the Zimbabwean news media's framing of men as victims of sexual assault. In K. Boyle & S Berridge (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence. First Edition (pp. 127 – 135), New York: Routledge. 

    Ndlovu, M. and Ndhlovu, M. P. (2024). Twitter Deliberations on Justice in the Aftermath of the Deaths of Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities in Zimbabwe. In P. Santos & C. T. Muneri (eds.), Reading Justice Claims on Social Media Perspectives from the Global South. (pp. 237 – 260). Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.