Mpho Molefe

Mpho is a PhD candidate in the Stanford Department of English with a minor in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE). She is a 2025-2026 Susan Ford Dorsey Africa Innovation Fellow at the Center for African Studies. Mpho fosters intellectual community within African Studies at Stanford through her work as a co-coordinator for the 2025-2026 Interdisciplinary Humanities Africanist Writing Group, an academic group supported by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education’s Student Projects for Intellectual Enhancement (SPICE) grant. She has supported equitable, inclusive, and research-based teaching throughout her own practices as a graduate instructor in the English Department and in her work as a Graduate Teaching Consultant (2023-present) and Graduate Teaching Consultant Coordinator (2024-2026) with the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Before coming to Stanford, Mpho earned a BA in English at Yale University.