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Meg Samuelson
CURRICULUM VITAE
I. QUALIFICATIONS
1.
BA (distinction, with distinction in English), University of Cape Town, December 1996.
2.
BA Honours (first class), Department of English, University of Cape Town, December
1997.
3.
MA in Postcolonial & Commonwealth Literatures (distinction), School of English,
University of Leeds, November 1999.
4.
Ph.D., Department of English, University of Cape Town, June 2005.
II. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1.
Part-time tutor and lecturer, English Department, University of Cape Town, 1998–2004
2.
Lecturer, English Department, Stellenbosch University, January 2005-December 2006
3.
Senior Lecturer, English Department, Stellenbosch University, January 2007-December
2008
4.
Associate Professor, Department of English, Stellenbosch University, January 2009 –
III. PUBLICATIONS
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Books
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Edited books
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Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? Stories of the South African Transition.
Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.
Nobody Ever Said AIDS: Poems and Stories from Southern Africa. Comp. and ed.
Nobantu Rasebotsa, Meg Samuelson and Kylie Thomas. Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2004.
Edited special issues/symposia
1.
‘Oceanic Worlds / Bordered Worlds’. Special issue. Social Dynamics 33.2 (2007). Coedited with Shaun Viljoen.
2.
‘Global Africa: Travels, Transfer, Transformation’. Symposium. Social Dynamics 36.2
(2010). Co-edited with Cheryl-Ann Michael and Harry Garuba.
3.
‘Zoë Wicomb: Cosmopolitan, Domestic and Recursive Settings’. Special issue. Current
Writing 23.2 (2011). Co-edited with MJ Daymond.
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Articles in peer-reviewed professional journals
1.
‘Reading the Maternal Voice in Sindiwe Magona’s To My Children’s Children and
Mother to Mother’. Modern Fiction Studies (Special issue: South African Fiction after
Apartheid, ed. David Attwell and Barbara Harlow) 46.1 (2000): 227-245.
2.
‘The Rainbow Womb: Rape and Race in South African Fiction of the Transition’.
Kunapipi: Journal of Post Colonial Writing (Special issue: South Africa Post
Apartheid) 24.1&2 (2002): 88-100.
3.
‘Cracked Vases and Untidy Seams: Narrative Structure and Closure in the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission and South African Fiction’. Current Writing 15.2 (2003):
63-76.
4.
(with Natasha Distiller). ‘“Denying the Coloured Mother”: Race and Gender in South
Africa’. L’Homme: European Review of Feminist History (Special edition: Whiteness)
16.2 (2005): 28-46. Rpt. Eurozine (March 2006)
(http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2006-03-02-distiller-en.html).
5.
‘“Home and the World”: Three South African Women’s Memoirs and the Contestation of
Social Fictions’. English Academy Review (Special issue: Fact & Fiction) 22 (2005): 3242.
6.
‘Historical Time, Gender and the “New” South Africa in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of
Redness’. Global South 2.2 (2006): 15-18.
7.
‘Memory, Mourning and Melancholia: Post-Conflict Fiction from Mozambique, South
Africa and Zimbabwe’. Journal of Social Studies 111 (2006): 1-20.
8.
‘Yvonne Vera’s Bulawayo: Modernity, (Im)Mobility, Music & Memory’. Research in
African Literatures 38.2 (2007): 22-35.
9.
‘The Disfigured Body of the Female Guerrilla: (De)Militarization, Sexual Violence and
Re-Domestication in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story’. Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society (Special issue: War & Terror) 32.4 (2007): 833-56.
10.
‘The City Beyond the Border: The Urban Worlds of Duiker, Mpe & Vera’. African
Identities (Special issue: Postcolonial African cities) 5.2 (2007): 247-60.
11.
‘Reimagining South Africa via a Passage to India: MK Jeffreys’s Archive of the Indian
Ocean World’. Social Dynamics (Special issue: Oceanic Worlds/Bordered Worlds)
33.2 (2007): 61-85.
12.
‘Melancholy States, Statist Mourning and the Poetics of Memory in Post-Conflict
Fiction from Southern Africa’. Journal of Social Studies 115 (2007): 45-68.
13.
(with Dorothy Driver) ‘History’s Intimate Invasions: Yvonne Vera’s The Stone
Virgins’. English Studies in Africa 50.2 (2007): 101-20.
14.
‘The Urban Palimpsest: Re-Presenting Sophiatown’. Journal of Postcolonial Writing
(Special issue: African city textualities) 44.1 (2008): 63-75.
15.
‘A Community of Letters on the Indian Ocean Rim: Friendship, Fraternity and (Af-)filial
Love’. English in Africa 35.1 (2008): 25-41.
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16.
‘Walking Through the Door and Inhabiting the House: South African Literary Culture
and Criticism after the Transition’. English Studies in Africa 51.1 (2008): 133-40.
17.
‘Lose your mother, kill your child: the passage of slavery and its afterlife in narratives
by Yvette Christiansë and Saidiya Hartman’. English Studies in Africa (Special issue:
Story of the Voyage) 51.2 (2008): 38-48.
18.
‘(Un)settled States: Indian Ocean Passages, Performative Belonging and Restless
Mobility in Post-Apartheid Fiction’. Social Dynamics (Special issue: Global Africa:
Travel, Transfer, Translation) 36.2 (2010): 272-87.
19.
‘Oceanic Histories and Protean Poetics: The Surge of the Sea in Zoë Wicomb’s
Fiction’. Journal of Southern African Studies 36.3 (2010): 543-57.
20.
‘Scripting Connections: Reflections on the “post-transitional”’. English Studies in
Africa (Special issue: ‘Post-transitional’ South African literature) 53.1 (2010): 113-17.
21.
‘Reading Zoë Wicomb’s Cosmopolitan, Domestic and Recursive Settings’. Current
Writing 23.2 (2011): 88-92.
22.
In press: ‘Orienting the Cape: A White Woman Writing Islam in South Africa’. Social
Dynamics 37.3 (2011).
23.
Forthcoming: ‘Textual Subjects in Motion: Letters, Literature and Print-Media in an
Indian South African Exchange (1928-1946)’. Asian Studies Review (Special issue:
‘Intercolonial Networks, Oceanic Circulations’).
24.
Forthcoming: ‘(Un)lawful Subjects of Company: Reading Cape Town from Tavern of
the Seas to Corporate City’. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
(Special issue: ‘Law & Literature in the Indian Ocean’).
25.
Forthcoming: ‘Sea-changes, dark tides and littoral states: Oceans and coastlines in the
post-apartheid literary imagination’. Alternation (Special issue: Coastlines & Littoral
Zones).
Chapters in books
1.
‘Lifting the Veil of Romance: A Reading of Lord Jim’. Conrad at the Millennium:
Modernism, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism. Ed. Gail Fincham and Attie de Lange.
Boulder: Social Science Monographs; Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University;
New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 345-360.
2.
‘“A river in my mouth”: Writing the Voice in Under the Tongue’. Sign and Taboo:
Perspectives on the Poetic Prose of Yvonne Vera. Ed. Robert Muponde and
Mandivavarira Maodzwa-Taruvinga. Harare: Weaver Press; London: James Currey,
2002. 15-24.
3.
‘Re-membering the Body: Rape and Recovery in Without a Name and Under the Tongue’.
Sign and Taboo: Perspectives on the Poetic Prose of Yvonne Vera. Ed. Robert Muponde
and Mandivavarira Maodzwa-Taruvinga. Harare: Weaver Press; London: James Currey,
2002. 93-100.
4.
‘The Mother-As-Witness: Reading Mother to Mother alongside South Africa's Truth and
Reconciliation Commission.’ Sindiwe Magona: The First Decade. Ed. Siphokazi Koyana.
Pietermaritzburg: KwaZulu-Natal University Press, 2004. 127-144.
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5.
(with Dorothy Driver). ‘History’s intimate invasions: Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins.’
The End of Unheard Narratives: Contemporary Perspectives on Southern African
Literature. Ed. Bettina Weiss. Neckargemünd: Kalliope, 2004. 175-208.
6.
‘Crossing borders with words: Sello Duiker, Phaswane Mpe & Yvonne Vera.’ Words
Gone Two Soon. Ed. Mbulelo Mzamane. Johannesburg: Skotaville Press, 2005. 196201.
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‘Fictional Representations of Rape in South African Fiction of the Transition.’ Africa,
Europe and (Post)Colonialism: Racism, Migration and Diaspora in African
Literatures. Ed. Susan Arndt and Marek Spitczok von Brisinski. Bayreuth: Bayreuth
African Studies, 2006. 184-93.
8.
‘The Disfigured Body of the Female Guerrilla: (De)Militarization, Sexual Violence and
Re-Domestication in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story.’ Feminist Perspectives on War and
Peace. Ed. Mary Hawkesworth and Karen Alexander. University of Chicago Press,
2008. 88-112. [Rpt. of previously published article]
9.
‘The City Beyond the Border: The Urban Worlds of Duiker, Mpe and Vera.’
Postcolonial African Cities. Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament. Ed.
Fassil Demissie. London: Routledge, 2008. [Rpt. of previously published article]
10.
‘Nongqawuse, Historical Time and Female Authorship in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of
Redness.’ Ways of Writing: Zakes Mda. Ed. David Bell & Johan Jacobs.
Pietermartizburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009. 229-53.
11.
‘Making Home on the Indian Ocean Rim: Re-Locations in South African Literature.’
Indian Ocean Studies: Cultural, Social and Political Perspectives. Ed. Ashraf Jamal
and Shanti Moorthy. London: Routledge, 2010. 298-317.
12.
‘The Urban Palimpsest: Re-Presenting Sophiatown.’ African City Textualities. Ed.
Ranka Primorac. London: Routledge, 2010. 63-75. [Rpt. of previously published
article]
13.
‘Oceanic Charades: The Female Figures of MK Jeffreys’s Passage to India.’ Eyes
Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean. Ed. Isabel Hofmeyr, Pamila Gupta and
Michael Pearson. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2010. 258-270.
14.
In press: ‘“Castaways” and “Generations”: Yvette Christianse’s Oceanic Genealogies
and the Colonial Archive.’ Memories of Home: Generation and Genealogies in African
Writing. Ed. Yianna Latsos. Trenton: Africa World Press.
15.
In press: ‘Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the
Indian Ocean.’ Print, Text and Book Histories in Southern Africa. Ed. Andrew van der
Vlies. Johannesburg: University of Witwatersrand Press.
16.
In press: ‘Writing Women’. The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Ed.
Derek Attridge and David Attwell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
17.
Forthcoming: ‘An (Un)Homely Woman: Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie
Mandela’. Feminist Perspectives on Winnie Mandela. Ed. Pumla Gqola.
18.
Forthcoming: ‘Shaykh Yusuf in South Africa: The MK Jeffreys Archive’. Islam in
South Africa. Ed. Gabeba Baderoon & Louise Green.
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Publications in occasional papers
1.
‘Racial and Spatial Boundaries in the Representation of Rape: South African Fiction in
the Transition, 1990-2000.’ Space, Sexuality and Postcolonial Cultures: Papers from
the Cultural Studies Workshop. ENRECA Occasional Papers Series 6. Ed. Manas Ray.
Calcutta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 2003. 157-176.
2.
‘States of Mourning, Melancholy States & Subaltern Memory: Southern African
Narratives of Loss and Restoration’. Occasional Papers, Sephis and Centre for Studies
in Social Sciences-Kolkata, 2008. (http://www.sephis.org)
(vii) Articles and opinion editorials in the public media
1.
‘Rhetorik der Auslassung: Vergewaltigung als Thema in südafrikanischen Romanen’.
Trans. Iris Erbach and Rosaly Magg. Informationszentrum 3. Welt 3477 (Juli/Aug.
2002): 33-37.
2.
‘Building SA’s House of Literature’. Mail and Guardian, Friday, 18-14 May 2008: 4.
3.
(with Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Grace Musila). ‘Scandal of Beauty: The Cape
Must Embrace Its Rich Mix’. Cape Times, 7 June 2011: 9.
4.
(with Grace Musila). ‘Viewing the Continent from its Tip’. Cape Argus, 11 July 2011:
13.
(viii) Review essays
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‘Speaking rape “like a man”: Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit.’ Annual Review of Islam
in South Africa 7 (2004): 11-14.
2.
‘Women Writing Africa: The Southern Volume’. English Academy Review 21 (2004):
145-152.
3.
‘South African Literatures in the Indian Ocean World’ (English and Korean
translation), Quarterly Changbi 2007: 130-33.
Editorials, introductions, prefaces and reports
1.
(with Kylie Thomas), ‘Crossing from Solitude’. Introduction. Nobody Ever Said AIDS:
Poems and Stories from Southern Africa. Cape Town: Kwela, 2004. 11-13.
2.
(with Kylie Thomas), ‘Writing Love and Loss: Selections from an Anthology Project on
HIV/AIDS.’ New Coin 40.1 (2004): 30-42.
3.
(with Shaun Viljoen). Introduction. ‘Oceanic Worlds/Bordered Worlds’. Social Dynamics
33.2 (2007): 1-2.
4.
Editorial. Social Dynamics 34.2 (2008).
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Editorial. Social Dynamics 35.2 (2009): 211.
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6.
(with Cheryl-Ann Michael and Harry Garuba). Introduction. ‘Global Africa: Travels,
Transfer, Transformation – A Festschrift for Brenda Cooper’. Social Dynamics 36.2
(2010): 235-38.
7.
In press: Preface. Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera. Ed. Helen Cousins and
Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo. Trenton: Africa World Press.
8.
In press: Comp. ‘Theorising Africa in Local & Global Imaginaries – A PANGeA
Workshop’. Report. Social Dynamics 37.3 (2011)
9.
In press: (with Grace Musila). ‘Locations & Locutions: Which Africa, Whose Africa?’
Report. Social Dynamics 37.3 (2011)
Encyclopedia entries and introductory headnotes
1.
‘“Though I am Black, I am Comely” by Hamsi (Marie Kathleen Jeffreys)’. Women
Writing Africa: The Southern Region. Ed. Margaret Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila
Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford and Nobantu Rasebotsa.
New York: Feminist Press; Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2003. 229.
2.
‘“Stella” by Sindiwe Magona’. Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region. Ed.
Margaret Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza
Musengezi, Margie Orford and Nobantu Rasebotsa. New York: Feminist Press;
Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2003. 438-439.
3.
‘“Writing Near the Bone” by Yvonne Vera’. Women Writing Africa: The Southern
Region. Ed. Margaret Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema,
Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford and Nobantu Rasebotsa. New York: Feminist Press;
Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2003. 488-489.
4.
‘“The Birth of This Country’s Language” by Antjie Krog’. Women Writing Africa: The
Southern Region. Ed. Margaret Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba
Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford and Nobantu Rasebotsa. New York:
Feminist Press; Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2003. 500.
5.
‘Achmat Dangor.’ Encylopedia of African Literature. Ed. Simon Gikandi. London &
New York: Routledge, 2004. 135.
6.
‘Sindiwe Magona.’ Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed. Simon Gikandi. London &
New York: Routledge, 2004. 305.
7.
‘Mike Nicol.’ Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed Simon Gikandi. London & New
York: Routledge, 2004. 375.
8.
‘Ivan Vladislavic.’ Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed Simon Gikandi. London &
New York: Routledge, 2004. 559.
9.
‘Yvonne Vera’. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century World Fiction. Ed. John
Ball. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.
10.
‘Olive Schreiner’. Dictionary of African Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and
Emmanuel Akyeampong. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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‘Yvonne Vera’. Dictionary of African Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and
Emmanuel Akyeampong. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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(xi) Book Reviews
1.
Rereading the Imperial Romance, by Laura Chrisman. Interventions: International
Journal of Postcolonial Studies 4.1 (2002): 296-97.
2.
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History, by David
Attwell. Journal of Southern African Studies 32.3 (2006): 638-9.
3.
Blood Orange, by Troy Blacklaw. Litnet. 13 December 2005.
(http://www.oulitnet.co.za/seminarroom/blood_orange.asp).
4.
Female Identity in Contemporary Zimbabwean Fiction, by Katrin Berndt. Matatu
(Special issue: Zimbabwean Transitions) 34 (2007): 233-35.
5.
Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place, by Rita
Barnard. South African Historical Journal 58.1 (2007): 304-5.
6.
Blood Kin, by Ceridwen Dovey. Litnet, October 2007.
7.
Living on a Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining, by Desiree Lewis.
Feminist Africa 11 (2008): 139-44.
8.
Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by
South African Indian Women, by Devarakshanam Govinden. Mail & Guardian, 10-16
October 2008. (http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-10-17-revisiting-legacies).
9.
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Biography and a Ghost Story, by Clifton
Crais and Pamela Scully. Safundi 11.4 (2010): 463-5.
10.
Men of Dynamite: Pen Portraits of MK Pioneers, by Rashid Seedat and Razia Saleh
(ed.) Awaaz magazine 8.2 (2011) (http://www.awaazmagazine.com).
(xii) Other
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Obituary: ‘Sala Kahle, Yvonne Vera’. Current Writing 17.2 (2005): 1-2.
IV. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
(i) Book projects
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1.
South African Literatures in English: Land, Sea, City. Co-authored with Dorothy
Driver. Commissioned and under contract at Oxford University Press (UK).
2.
Intimate Relations between South Africa and South (East) Asia: The Life-Writing of
MK Jeffreys.
3.
Oceanic Passages: Africa and the World in Textual Culture.
Articles
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1.
‘Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Amphibian Aesthetics: Littoral Locations in the African Indian
Ocean World’. For submission to: English Studies in Africa (Special issue: Critical
Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah). Abstract accepted; article submission date: June
2012.
2.
‘Literary Passages of the Caravels: Camoes’s The Lusaids, Lobos Antunes’s The
Return of the Caravels and Keki Daruwalla’s For Pepper and Christ’.
3.
‘Amitav Ghosh’s Littoral Asia and the Indian Ocean Arena’.
4.
‘Oceanic Africa: Thinking from the Cape’.
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‘Portals: Fictions of the African-Indian Ocean interface’
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Presentations at international conferences, colloquia and workshops
1.
‘A Study of Yvonne Vera’. A Symposium on Zimbabwean Literature, University of
Zimbabwe, Harare. 10-12 January, 2000.
2.
‘Women, Rape and Nationalism: South African Fiction in the Transition, 1990-2000’. 7th
All India Cultural Studies Workshop on Postcolonial Cultural Studies, Centre for
Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, 25-31 January 2002. (Funded by the
SEPHIS-CSSSC south-south exchange programme.)
3.
‘Representing Rape in South African Literature of the Transition’. Versions and
Subversions: International Conference on African Literature, Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany, 1-4 May 2002.
4.
‘Sarah Bartmann (the “Hottentot Venus”): Recast and Recovered in Post-Apartheid South
Africa’. Subject, Object, Abject: the 12th Annual Boundaries in Question Conference,
University of California at Berkeley, United States, 28 February-1 March 2003.
5.
‘Sarah Bartmann (“The Hottentot Venus”): Nineteenth-Century Icon of Racialised
Sexuality Recast as Mother of the Nation in Post-Apartheid South Africa’. NineteenthCentury Sex: Annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
Association, University of California at Santa Cruz, United States, 22-24 March 2003.
6.
‘Stitching Together the Story of the Past: Post-Apartheid Fiction and the South African
Truth and Reconciliation Commission’. Narrative: An International Conference,
Association for the Study of Narrative, University of California at Berkeley, United
States, 27-29 March 2003.
7.
‘Narrating the Apartheid Past: Post-Apartheid Fiction and the South African Truth and
Reconciliation Commission’. Crossing Over: Annual meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association, California State University at San Marcos, United
States, 4-6 April 2003.
8.
‘Historical Time, Gender and the “New” South Africa in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of
Redness’. Contested Nationalisms and the New Statism, SEPHIS workshop hosted by the
School of Social Sciences Universiti Sains Malasia, Penang, Malaysia, 2-4 September
2004. (Funded by SEPHIS south-south exchange programme.)
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‘Proximity, Persistence and the Movements of Desire: Yvonne Vera’s Bulawayo’.
Sharing Places: EACLAS Triannual Conference, Malta, March 2005.
10.
‘Mapping Networks: City Spaces and New (Trans)Nations in Southern African
Literature’. First biannual AEGIS conference, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, United Kingdom, 29 June- 2 July 2005.
11.
‘Memory, Mourning and Melancholia in Post-Conflict Fiction from Mozambique,
South Africa and Zimbabwe’. Memory and Amnesia in the South, SEPHIS workshop
hosted by BRAC, Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2006 (funded by SEPHIS south-south
exchange programme).
12.
‘The Urban Palimpsest: Representations of Sophiatown’. Negotiating Culture in the
Context of Globalisation, Volkswagen Foundation and Codesria Workshop, Saly,
Senegal, April 2006 (funded by Volkswagen Foundation).
13.
‘Re-imagining South Africa via a Passage to India’. Evolutions Conference, University
of Edinburgh, 21-22 September 2006.
14.
‘Cape Slavery and Historical Memory’. Imagining Transatlantic Slavery Conference,
Chawton House Library and University of Southampton, 14-16 March 2007.
15.
‘Women Writing South Africa: Novel Visions from Schreiner to the Present’. Asia-Africa
Literary Festival, Jeonju, South Korea, 9-13 November 2007 (by invitation; funded by
hosts).
16.
‘The surge of the sea in Zoë Wicomb’s Fiction’. Zoë Wicomb: Texts and Histories
Colloquium organised by SOAS and York University, University of London, 11-12
September 2008 (by invitation).
17.
‘Texts in Motion: Tracing the Flow of Letters and News in an Indian-South African
Exchange (1928-46)’. Intercolonial Networks; Oceanic Circulations: Re-Thinking the
Indian Ocean Workshop, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 11-13 March
2009 (by invitation; funded by hosts).
18.
‘Crossing the Kala Pani: Citizenship and Belonging in Post-Apartheid South African
Indian Narratives’. India and the Indian Diasporic Imagination, Université Paul Valéry
(Montpellier III), France, 1-4 April 2009.
19.
‘Shaykh Yusuf in South Africa: MK Jeffreys’s popular presentations of the founding of
Islam (1934-1959) and post-apartheid statist memory’. Connecting Histories Across
the Indian Ocean: Religion, Politics and Popular Culture. Panjim, Goa, India, 19-21
November 2009 (partly funded by hosts).
20.
‘(Un)Lawful Subjects of Company: An Archipelagic Corridor of Rule at the
Intersection of Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds’. Law and Lawlessness in the Indian
Ocean Workshop, Chawton House and University of Southampton, 16 April 2010 (by
invitation, funded by hosts).
21.
‘Representing pasts, reorienting futures: Amitav Ghosh’s Indian Ocean nostalgia and
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s amphibian ambivalence’. Development, Geopolitics, and
Cultural Exchange in the Indian Ocean, Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute /
Indian Ocean as Visionary Arena Research Network, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania,
May 2011 (partly funded by IOVA).
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22.
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Forthcoming: ‘Amitav Ghosh’s Littoral Asia and the Indian Ocean Arena’. Lived
Cosmopolitanisms: Identities, Languages and Literatures in Littoral Africa, University
of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5-7 March 2012.
International lectures, seminars and panel presentations
1.
Guest lecture: ‘The City and Literature in South Africa’. DanKook University, Seoul,
South Korea, September 2007 (preparatory event for the Asia-Africa Literature Festival in
Jeonju, November 2007; by invitation, funded by hosts).
2.
Panellist: ‘African and Asian literary connections: Africa panel’. Chonbuk University,
Joenju, South Korea, September 2007 (preparatory event for the Asia-Africa Literature
Festival in Jeonju, November 2007; by invitation, funded by hosts).
3.
Seminar presentation: ‘Reflections on the South African Transition: Remembering the
Nation, Dismembering Women?’ English Department and Postcolonial Studies Research
Group, Vaxjo University, Sweden, 19 April 2008 (by invitation; funded by hosts).
4.
Guest lecture: ‘Writing Women in the South African Transition: Remembering the Nation,
Dismembering Women?’ English Department and Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala
University, Sweden, 22 April 2008 (by invitation; funded by hosts).
5.
Seminar presentation: ‘Protean Constructions of Self and Nation: The Sea as Trope and
Archive in Post-Apartheid Literature and Culture’. Transforming Cultures Research
Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 10 March 2009 (by invitation,
funded by hosts).
Presentations at conferences, colloquia and workshops in South Africa
1.
‘Lifting the Veil of Romance: A Reading of Lord Jim’. ‘Heart of Darkness’ Centennial
Conference, University of Cape Town, 1998.
2.
‘Narrative Closure and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South African
Literature’. Region, Nation, Identity: Ninth International Conference on the Literature of
Region and Nation, University of Natal, Durban, 30 July- 2 August 2002.
3.
‘Entangled Time, Embodied Time: Gender and the Inscription of History in Zakes Mda’s
The Heart of Redness’. Postcolonialism: South / Africa: Combined meeting of AUETSA,
SAVAL and SACCLAS, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban,
5-7 July 2004.
4.
(with Dorothy Driver) ‘Teaching in the Virtual Classroom’. Annual Meeting of Western
Cape English Departments Colloquium, Stellenbosch, 30 October 2004.
5.
‘An (Un)Homely Woman: Njabulo S. Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela’. Writing
African Women: The Poetics and Politics of African Feminist Research Conference,
University of the Western Cape and Nordic African Institute, 19-22 January 2005.
6.
‘The City Beyond the Border: The Case for a (Trans) National Literature’. Present and
Future Directions in South African Literary Studies Symposium University of
Witwatersrand, May 2005 (by invitation; funded by hosts).
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7.
‘Home and the World: Black Women’s Autobiography and the Contestation of Social
Fictions’. Fact Bordering on Fiction Symposium, University of Stellenbosch, June
2005.
8.
‘The City Beyond the Border: The Case for a (Trans)National Literature’. Africa in
Literature: Combined meeting of English Academy, SAWA, AUETSA, SAVAL &
SAACLAS. University of Cape Town, 10-13 July 2005.
9.
‘Yvonne Vera’s Bulawayo: (Im)Mobility, Music and Desire’. Portraits of the African
Present: A Commemorative Colloquium on Yvonne Vera, Centre for African Literary
Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 8 September 2005 (by
invitation and partially funded by hosts).
10.
‘Rearticulating the Local via a Passage to India: the Life-writing of MK Jeffreys’. Forging
the Local and the Global: Combined Meeting of AUETSA, SAACLAS & SAVAL.
University of Stellenbosch, 9-12 July 2006.
11.
‘Communities of Letters: Reimagining South Africa on the Indian Ocean Rim’. A World
Elsewhere: Orality, Manuscript and Print in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures
Conference. Centre for the Book, Cape Town, and University of Rhodes, 2-4 April 2007.
12.
‘Oceanic Charades: The Female Figures of MK Jeffreys’s Passage to India’. Eyes Across
the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean Conference. University of Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, 20-24 August 2007 (by invitation; partially funded by hosts).
13.
‘Walking through the door and inhabiting the past: South African Culture and Literary
Criticism after the Transition’. South African Literary Studies: A Provocation on the
State of the Field Symposium, Wiser, University of Witwatersrand, 16-17 April 2008
(by invitation).
14.
‘Signs, Sirens, Stars: Women in Urban Fiction and Film from Southern Africa’.
Women and Region Project: Cape Town Workshop, University of the Western Cape
and Gender & Women Studies, American University, Cairo, 24-25 April 2008 (by
invitation).
15.
‘An (Un)Homely Woman and the Figure of the Stranger: Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of
Winnie Mandela’. Feminist Perspectives on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Colloquium,
University of the Witwatersrand, 27-28 June 2008 (by invitation).
16.
‘Thinking through African Cities and the Indian Ocean’. Transitions and Translations:
Africa in the Global Imaginary Colloquium, Stellenbosch University, 25 July 2008.
17.
‘Lose your mother, kill your child: the afterlife of slavery in Yvette Christiansë’s and
Saidiya Hartman’s Oceanic Passages’. Story of the Voyage Symposium, Wiser,
University of Witwatersrand, 1-2 October 2008 (by invitation and partially funded by
hosts).
18.
‘States of Mourning, Melancholy States & Subaltern Memory in Southern African
Narratives’. Language, History and Memory Colloquium, Department of General
Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 18 February 2009 (by invitation).
19.
‘Crossing the Kala Pani: Diaspora and Settlement in Post-Apartheid Narratives of the
Indian Ocean Crossing’. Writing Diaspora: Africa and the World Colloquium, Centre
for African Studies, University of Cape Town, 22 May 2009.
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20.
‘Reading Africa Now: Oceanic Africa’. Transitions & Translations: Africa in Local
and Global Imaginaries Workshop, Partnership for Africa’s Next Generation of
Academics (Pangea) and Graduate School, Stellenbosch University, 15-18 May 2011.
21.
‘The Novel and the Ordinary in South Africa’. Ordinary States/States of the Ordinary,
Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Wits, July 2011.
22.
‘Sea-changes: post-apartheid narratives of the ocean and the coastal littoral’. Coastlines
and Littoral Zones: 8th Annual Literature and Ecology Colloquium. Kleinmond, 12-14
August 2011.
23.
‘Literary Passages of the Caravels: Luis de Camoes’s The Lusiads and Keki
Daruwalla’s For Pepper and Christ’. Connected Histories: Portugal, South Africa,
India, 1500-2000. Colloquium, Consulate General of Portugal and Centre for Indian
Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, 22 October 2011 (invited and funded by
hosts).
24.
‘Oceanic Africa: Thinking from the Cape’. Thinking Africa & the Diaspora Differently
Workshop, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, 13-15 December 2011.
Seminar and panel presentations, event chairing and addresses and workshop participation
in South Africa
1.
Seminar presentation: (with Christine Loflin): ‘E-Learning in English Studies:
Transatlantic Connections’. Research Seminar, English Department, Stellenbosch
University, 14 September 2005.
2.
Chair/moderator: ‘Writing the Plight of Woman’. Panel discussion, Cape Town Book Fair,
June 2006.
3.
Panellist: ‘The TRC and South African Literature’. Research Seminar, English
Department, Stellenbosch University, November 2006.
4.
Seminar presentation: ‘The Urban Palimpsest:
Sophiatown in Fiction and Film’. Research Seminar, English Department, Stellenbosch
University, April 2007.
Interviewee: ‘Gender and the Novel’. Nancy Richards’s
5.
Otherwise, SAFM, July 2007.
Panellist: ‘Gender, Culture and the Novel’. Cape Town
6.
Book Fair, July 2007.
7.
Seminar presentation: ‘Remembering the Nation,
Dismembering Women: Gender, History and the Present’. Research Seminar, History
Department, Stellenbosch University, 26 September 2007.
8.
Participant and presenter: Workshop on Swiss-SA
Cooperation. University of the Western Cape and University of Basel, UWC, October
2007.
9.
Seminar presentation: ‘Oceanic Charades: The Female
Figures of MK Jeffreys’s Passage to India’. Research Seminar, English Department,
Stellenbosch University, 1 November 2007.
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10.
Panellist: ‘Academic Publishing’. Research Seminar,
English Department, Stellenbosch University, 6 March 2008.
11.
Panellist: ‘Oceanic Worlds/Bordered Worlds: A special
issue of Social Dynamics’. Research Seminar, English Department, Stellenbosch
University, 3 April 2008.
12.
Seminar presentation: ‘Book Talk: Remembering the
Nation, Dismembering Women? Stories of the South African Transition’. Research
Seminar, English Department, Stellenbosch University, 8 May 2008.
13.
Participant: Shifting Cities Workshop, University of
Witwatersrand, June 2008 (funded by Volkswagen Foundation).
14.
Participant: Cambridge History of South African
Literature Workshop. Convened by editors Derek Attridge and David Attwell,
University of Witwatersrand, August 2008 (by invitation and funded by hosts).
15.
Seminar: ‘Nationalism and Gendered Representations’.
Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Seminar Series, Women’s & Gender Women’s
Studies and Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, 8
October 2008.
16.
Seminar presentation: ‘Protean Narratives of Self and
Nation: The Sea as Archive and Trope in Post-Apartheid Literature’. Research
Seminar, English Department, Stellenbosch University, 26 February 2009.
17.
Participant: PANGeA Workshop, Bagamoyo, Tanzania,
June 2009.
18.
Panellist: ‘Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus, by
Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully’. Cape Town Book Fair, July 2009.
19.
Panellist: ‘Zakes Mda: Ways of Writing, ed. David Bell
and Johan Jacobs’. Cape Town Book Fair, July 2009.
20.
Conversation: with Elleke Boehmer, author of Sharmilla
and Other Portraits. Book Lounge, Cape Town, 4 May 2010.
21.
Launch address: ‘Able-Bodied: Scenes from a Curious
Life, by Leslie Swartz’. New Townhouse Hotel, Cape Town, 1 June 2010.
22.
Panellist: ‘What is Slavery to Me?, by Pumla Gqola’.
Cape Town Book Fair, July 2010.
23.
Presenter: ‘Interdisciplinary Research from a
Literary/Cultural Studies Perspective’. Library Academy, Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch,
October 2010.
24.
Participant: Summer Conversations: Ordinary
States/States of the Ordinary, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory & Criticism and
University of California, Johannesburg, 4-6 February 2011.
25.
Chair and Panellist: ‘Celebrating Sindiwe Magona’.
Faculty of Humanities, University of the Western Cape, 4 May 2011.
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26.
Chair: ‘Thinking Africa from the Cape’. Locations &
Locutions: Which Africa, Whose Africa? Public Lecture Series. Graduate School, Arts
& Social Science Faculty, Stellenbosch University, 7 June 2011.
27.
Participant: Ordinary States/States of the Ordinary,
Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, University of the Witwatersrand,
July 2011.
28.
Chair: ‘Conversation with Judith Butler’. Stellenbosch
University, July 2011. (Series of Lectures and Conversations with Judith Butler and
Wendy Brown co-hosted by SU English Dept, Social Anthropology & Sociology and
T&T Research Theme; UCT CAS & AGI; UWC CHR)
29.
Chair: ‘Indian Ocean Africa’. Locations & Locutions:
Which Africa, Whose Africa? Public Lecture Series, Graduate School, Arts & Social
Science Faculty, Stellenbosch University, 13 September 2011.
30.
Participant: Summer Conversations: The Future of Nature. Johannesburg Workshop in
Theory and Criticism and Humanities Research Institute, University of California,
Johannesburg, 2-5 February 2012.
VI. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: JOURNAL EDITING; JOURNAL BOARD
MEMBERSHIP; REVIEWING OF ARTICLES, MSS., PROJECTS, RATING, TENURE
AND PROMOTION APPLICATIONS
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Journal editing
1.
Co-editorship of Social Dynamics: Jan. 2007- Dec 2008; Jan 2010-Dec 2011.
2.
Editorship of Social Dynamics: Jan 2009-Dec 2009
3.
Book reviews editor of English Academy Review: July 2007–Dec 2010
Journal Advisory Board membership
1.
English Studies in Africa: April 2007 –
2.
Current Writing: 2009-2011
3.
Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies: 2009 –
4.
Journal of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies: March 2012 –
Peer reviewing for journals
Current Writing (listed reviewer); Postcolonial Text (listed reviewer); English in Africa;
Social Dynamics; Feminist Africa; English Studies in Africa; Postamble; Journal of
Postcolonial Writing; Research in African Literatures; African Identities; International
Political Sociology; Social Identities; Atlantic Studies; Scrutiny2; Asian Studies Review;
Journal of Literary Studies
(iv)
Peer reviewing of academic book mss
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press (2007); University of Witwatersrand Press (2008);
University of Cape Town Press (2009); University of Witwatersrand Press (2009), Edwin
Mellon Press (2010); University of Witwatersrand Press (2010).
(v)
NRF project and rating reviewing
I am regularly requested to review applications for research funding (Thuthuka grant scheme;
competitive support for non-rated academics; competitive support for rated academics) and
for rating; I accept approximately two rating applications and two-three funding applications
per year.
(vi)
Promotion and tenure reviewing
Promotion reviewing: University of Witwatersrand (2008); University of Zimbabwe (2010).
Tenure reviewing: McGill University, Canada (2010); Whitman College, USA (2010).
VII. ORGANISING & CONVENING CONFERENCES, PUBLIC LECTURES, SEMINARS
& WORKSHOPS
1.
Conference committee member: Forging the Local and the Global: Combined Meeting of
AUETSA, SAACLAS & SAVAL. University of Stellenbosch, 9-12 July 2006. Convenor:
Dirk Klopper; Conference Organiser: Rob Gaylard.
2.
Convenor: English Department Research Seminar Series, Stellenbosch University,
2008-2011.
3.
Convenor: Annual Graduate Conference, English Department, Stellenbosch University,
2008-2010.
4.
Founding Convenor: Quarterly Graduate Symposia, English Department, Stellenbosch
University, 2008-2010.
5.
Co-organiser: Writing Diaspora, Africa and the World Colloquium, Centre for African
Studies, University of Cape Town, 22 May 2009. Convenor: Harry Garuba; Coorganisers: Cheryl-Ann Michael and Natasha Distiller.
6.
Convenor: The Cape and the Cosmopolitan: Reading Zoe Wicomb. Stellenbosch
University, 8-10 April 2010. Co-convenor: Kai Easton, SOAS, University of London.
7.
Founding convenor (with Grace Musila). Locations & Locutions, Public Lecture and
Graduate Seminar Series. Graduate School, Arts & Social Sciences Faculty,
Stellenbosch University, 2010.
(http://www.sun.ac.za/lectureseries).
8.
Convenor: Transitions and Translations: Africa in Local and Global Imaginaries.
Graduate School / Pangea Workshop, Stellenbosch University, 15-17 May 2011.
9.
Convenor (with Achille Mbembe, Grace Musila, Sarah Nuttall). Locations &
Locutions: Which Africa, Whose Africa? Public Lecture Series (‘Thinking Africa from
the Cape’, 7 June; ‘Atlantic Locations’, 19 July; ‘Indian Ocean Africa’, 13 Sept).
Graduate School, Arts & Social Sciences Faculty, Stellenbosch University, 2011.
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10.
Convenor (with Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall, Steven Robins, Premesh Lalu and
Harry Garuba). Wendy Brown & Judith Butler: A Series of Public Lectures and
Conversations. Stellenbosch University, University of the Western Cape, University of
Cape Town and District Six Museum, July 2011.
11.
Forthcoming: Panel convenor (with Tina Steiner). ‘Indian Ocean Africa: Cultural,
Historical and Literary Re-Orientations’, African Studies Association-United Kingdom
Conference, Leeds, United Kingdom, 8-10 September 2012.
12.
Forthcoming: Panel convenor, Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal: Scotland & South Africa.
York University, United Kingdom, 13-14 September 2012.
VIII. RESEARCH PROJECTS & GROUPS
1.
‘Southern African Subjectivities: Routes and Roots in Literary and Cultural Studies I’.
National Research Foundation – Thuthuka Programme: 2005-2007. Proposal rating: 1.
2.
‘Southern African Subjectivities: Routes and Roots in Literary and Cultural Studies II’.
National Research Foundation – Thuthuka Programme: 2008-2011. Proposal
evaluation: ‘exceptional’.
3.
‘Shifting Cities: Imagining Urban Life-Worlds in East, West and Southern Africa’.
Founding and co-ordinating member of research group comprised of scholars based at
institutions in Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe: 2006-2008.
4.
‘Transitions and Translations: Africa in the Global Imaginary’. Flagship Research
Project Theme, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University. Member
and founding coordinator (with Shaun Viljoen) of subtheme ‘Continental and
Intercontinental Trajectories’: 2008-2009.
5.
‘Transitions and Translations: Africa in Local & Global Imaginaries’. Faculty Flagship
Research Project Theme, Graduate School, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences,
Stellenbosch University, and Partnership for Africa’s Next Generation of Academics
(PANGeA). Theme convenor (Stellenbosch): 2010-2011.
(http://www.sun.ac.za/transitions).
IX. GRADUATE SUPERVISION
(i)
Completed MA theses
1.
S. M. Moudouma, ‘Re-visiting History, Re-discovering Identity in Black British
Fictions of the 21st Century: Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore and Buchi Emecheta’s
The New Tribe’. Graduated: March 2009.
2.
N. Louw, ‘Grace and The Township Housewife: Excavating Black Women’s
Magazines from the 1960s’. Graduated: March 2009.
3.
W.J. Smit, ‘Becoming the Third Generation: Negotiating Modern Selves in Nigerian
Bildungsromane of the 21st Century’. Graduated: December 2009. (Two years funding
from ‘Southern African Subjectivities’ project.)
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(ii)
(iii)
4.
K. Samuel, ‘Bearing Witness to Trauma: Representations of the Rwandan Genocide’,
Graduated: March 2010, with distinction. (Two years funding from ‘Southern African
Subjectivities’ project.)
5.
S. Visser, ‘Romantic Children, Brazen Girls? An Exploration of the Girl-child’s
Representation in and around Nabokov’s Lolita and Three Derivative Novels’.
Graduated: December 2010, with distinction.
6.
H.G. Kim, ‘Marginality in Post-TRC Texts: Storytelling and Representational Acts’.
Graduated: March 2011, with distinction. (One year funding from ‘Southern African
Subjectivities’ project.)
7.
C. van Houwelingen, ‘White Women Writing the (Post)Colony: Creolité, Home and
Estrangement in Novels by Duras, Rhys and Van Niekerk’. Graduated: March 2012,
with distinction.
8.
E. de Beer, ‘Spicing South Africa: Representations of Food and Culinary Traditions in
Post-Apartheid Literature, Cookery Books and Art’. (Two years funding from
‘Southern African Subjectivities’ project.). Graduated: March 2012.
MA supervision in progress
1.
J. Swart, ‘The Mother’s Body as Metaphor: Antjie Krog and Marlene van Niekerk’
(Two years funding from ‘Southern African Subjectivities’ project). Expected
submission date: August 2012.
2.
L. Rippernaar, ‘Unconfessing women: Truth, power and memory in fiction by
Christiansë, Ndebele and Wicomb’. (One and a half years’ funding from ‘Southern
African Subjectivities’ project.) Expected submission date: August 2012.
3.
M. Geustyn, ‘The Art of Looking Sideways: Representations of Slave Subjectivity in
Post-Apartheid Fiction’. (Three years funding and conference funding from ‘Southern
African Subjectivities’ project). Expected submission date: August 2012.
Completed PhD theses
1.
(iv)
I. Ndlovu (co-supervisor), ‘An Examination of Prison, Criminality and Power in
Selected Contemporary Kenyan and South African Narratives’. Graduated: December
2010.
PhD supervision in progress
1.
C. Weyer (sole supervisor), ‘Confession, Ethics and Embodiment in the Poetry of Joan
Metelerkamp and Antjie Krog’. (One year funding from ‘Southern African
Subjectivities’ project.) Expected submission date: March 2012.
2.
C. Abel (sole supervisor), ‘Power and Transgression: Monstrous Women and Female
Monsters in Carter and Mukherjee’. Expected submission date: October 2012.
3.
L.G. Spencer (primary supervisor), ‘Writing Women in Uganda and South Africa:
Emerging narratives from post-repressive states’. (Three years funding from “Southern
African Subjectivities” project). Expected submission date: October 2012.
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4.
F. Manyonga (sole supervisor), ‘Zimbabwe Women Writers from 1950 to the Present:
Re-creating Gender Images’. (Conference funding from ‘Southern African
Subjectivities’ project.) Expected submission date: October 2012.
5.
K. Muchemwa (primary supervisor), ‘Imagining the Zimbabwean City: 1950 to 2010’.
(Conference and bursary funding from ‘Southern African Subjectivities’ project.)
Expected submission date: October 2012.
6.
J. Ocita (primary supervisor), ‘Imagining Race, Nationality and Citizenship in East
African and South African Indian Narratives’. Expected submission date: October
2012.
7.
J. Ellis (sole supervisor), ‘Past (Pre)Occupations, Present (Dis)Locations: The
Nineteenth Century Restoried in Post-Settler Societies. (Three years funding from
‘Southern African Subjectivities’ project). Expected submission date: October 2012.
8.
D. Kahyana (primary supervisor), ‘(Trans)National Identities in Ugandan Novels’.
(Conference funding from ‘Southern African Subjectivities’ project.) Expected
submission date: October 2013.
9.
K. Kimani (co-supervisor), ‘Cosmopolitanism and Xenophobia in the Writing of
Abdulrazak Gurnah’. Expected submission date: October 2013.
10.
M. Musiyiwa (co-supervisor), ‘Popular Songs and the Narrativisation of Post-2000
Zimbabwe: An Appraisal of Meanings on Land, Landscape, History and Identities’.
Expected submission date: October 2013.
Additional supervision in progress
1.
(vi)
Expert international co-supervisor for Ph.D. candidate at Linneas University, Sweden:
Jenny Simeus, ‘Speaking Others – Speaking the Self. A Study of the Textual
Construction of Selfhood in Three South African Texts with Autobiographical Traits’.
Expected completion date: December 2012.
Publications by graduate students under my supervision
1.
Spencer, Lynda. ‘Young, black and female in post-apartheid South Africa: Identity
Politics in Kopana Matlwa’s Coconut’. Scrutiny2 14.1 (2009): 66-78.
2.
Samuel, Karin. ‘Reflections on Inyezi: Andrew Brown and Karin Samuel in
Conversation’. Writers, Writing on Conflict and Wars in Africa. Ed. Okey Ndibe and
Chenjerai Hove. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2009.
3.
Muchemwa, Kizito Z. ‘Galas, Biras, State Funerals and the Necropolitan Imagination
in Re-Constructions of the Zimbabwean Nation, 1980-2008’. Social Dynamics 36.3
(2010): 504-14.
4.
Muchemwa, Kizito Z. ‘Old and New Fictions: Rearranging the Geographies of Urban
Space and Identities in Post-2006 Zimbabwean Fiction’. English Academy Review 27.2
(2010): 134-45.
5.
Ndlovu, Isaac. ‘Coded Narratives of Nongoloza, Doggy Dog: Narrating the Self and
Nation in Jonny Steinberg’s the Number’. Current Writing 22.2 (2010): 119-30.
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6.
Samuel, Karin. ‘Bearing Witness to Trauma: Narrative Structure and Perspective in
Murambi, The Book of Bones’. African Identities 8.4 (2010): 365-77.
7.
Kim, Grace. ‘“You become someone other than yourself when you live in isolation or
live separated from those that meant a lot to you’: Xenophobia, the South African and
Narratives of Nation in Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon’. Postamble 5.2 (2010).
8.
Muchemwa, Kizito Z. and Robert Muponde, ‘Dictatorships, disasters, and African
soccer: reflections on a moment in Zimbabwean soccer’. African Identities 9.3 (2011):
279-290.
9.
Muchemwa, Kizito Z. ‘Polarising cultures, politics and communities and fracturing
economies in post-2000 Zimbabwe’. Social Dynamics 37.3 (2011). In press.
10.
Geustyn, Maria. ‘The Art of Looking Sideways: Articulating Silence in Yvette
Christianse’s Unconfessed.’ Postamble 7.1 (2011).
11.
Weyer, Christy. ‘“Stripping” in English: Antjie Krog’s Poetry, Translated and
Transformed’. Scrutiny2 16.1 (2011): 53-65.
12.
Ferreira, Nicolette. ‘Grace and The Townships Housewife: Excavating Black Women’s
Magazines from the 1960s’. Agenda 25.4 (2011): 59-68.
13.
De Beer, Este. ‘Spicing South Africa: Exploring the Role of Food and Spices in Berni
Searle’s Conceptual Art.’ Journal of Literary Studies 28.1 (2012). In press.
14.
Spencer, Lynda. ‘Heirs of Tradition or Veiled Anxieties? Romance, Sex, and Marriage
in Contemporary Ugandan Women’s Short Stories’. Rethinking Eastern African
Literary and Intellectual Landscapes. Ed. James Ogunde, Grace Musila and Dina
Ligaga. New Jersey: Africa World Press. In press.
15.
Ellis, Jeanne. ‘A Bodily Metaphorics of Unsettlement: Leora Farber’s Dis-location/Relocation as Neo-Victorian Gothic.’ Neo-Victorian Gothic: Horror, Violence and
Degeneration. Ed. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
In press.
16.
Manyonga, Faith. ‘Representing Nehanda: Writing back to colonialism’s ‘frozen
image’ and the male nationalist tradition.’ Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera. Ed.
Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo and Helen Cousins. Africa World Press. In press.
17.
Muchemwa, Kizito Z. ‘Vera’s Fictional Palimpsests: The Land, City and Peripatetic
Bodies. Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera. Ed. Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo and
Helen Cousins. Africa World Press. In press.
18.
Weyer, Christy. ‘The Ambiguity of the Erotic: Antjie Krog’s Down to My Last Skin’.
Critical Essays on Antjie Krog. Ed. Judith Lutge Coullie and Andries Visagie.
Forthcoming.
19.
Samuel, Karin. ‘Bearing Witness to Trauma: Narrative Structure and Perspective in
Murambi, The Book of Bones’. Contemporary Literary Criticism 323 (2012).
Forthcoming. Rpt. of previously published article.
20.
Ocita, James. ‘Narrativising the Past: The Quest for Belonging and Citizenship in PostApartheid South African Indian Fiction’. Alternation. Forthcoming.
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21.
Kahyana, Danson. ‘Covering the Waters, Recovering the Land: Ugandan Literature and
the Fight against Fascism’. Alternation. Under review.
22.
Muchemwa, Kizito Z. ‘Dumb/dump sites, migrants, and nomadic memory in Southern
African cities’. Under review.
TEACHING
(i)
Undergraduate lectures
1.
English 2 (African Literature), University of Cape Town (2000-2001; 2004):
(a) Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue
(b) Nawal el Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile
(c) Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story
(d) Gender in African Literature: Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ngugi’s A Grain of
Wheat & Aidoo’s My Sister Killjoy
(e) Power and Knowledge in African Literature: Achebe’s Things Fall Apart,
Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat & Aidoo’s My Sister Killjoy
Class size: approximately 100 students.
2.
English 278, English Department, University of Stellenbosch, 2005-2011:
(a)
Introduction to African literature
(b)
Bessie Head’s Maru
(c)
Ben Okri’s Stars of the New Curfew
(d)
Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger
(e)
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
(f)
Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
Class size: approximately 400 students.
3.
English 348, English Department, University of Stellenbosch, 2005-2011:
(a)
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
(b)
Poetry and Performance in South Africa
(c)
Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
(d)
Mia Couto’s Under the Frangipani
(e)
Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story
(f)
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
(g)
Postcolonial literature & theory
(h)
Atlantic and Indian Ocean Postcolonialisms
(i)
Introduction to South African literature
(j)
The Drum Decade: fiction, film and reportage
Class size: approximately 140 students.
4.
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, 2005:
(a)
Critical theory meta-module: Marxist literary theory
(b)
Critical theory meta-module: feminist literary theory
(c)
Critical theory meta-module: postmodernism & post-structuralism
Class size: approximately 100 students.
(ii)
Undergraduate electives
1.
English Department, University of Cape Town, 2000-2001 & 2004:
(a)
‘Gender in African Literature’
(b)
‘History, Gender and Nation in South African Fiction’
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(c)
‘Stories of the Transition: South African Fiction’
(d)
‘Southern African Literatures’ (with Dorothy Driver).
Class size: approximately 15 students.
2.
English Department, University of Stellenbosch, 2005-2011:
(a)
‘Introduction to local and global poetry’
(b)
‘Gender & the Representation of Women in Africa Literature’
(c)
‘Post-Apartheid Fiction: Ndebele and Wicomb’
(d)
‘Writing Love and Loss: The Novels of Toni Morrison’
(e)
‘Truth-telling, Nation-Building & Gender in Post-Apartheid Fiction’
(f)
‘The Fictional Shapes of Cityscapes: Luanda and Jozi’
(g)
‘Re-enacting Truth & Reconciliation in South African Fiction & Film’
(h)
‘Modernism, Madness, Magic and Myth in Southern African Literature’
(i)
‘Southern African Women Writers: Madness, Trauma & Healing’
(j)
‘Subjects at Sea: Sailors & Surfers’
Class size: approximately 10-18 students.
(iii)
Postgraduate seminars and electives
1.
English Department, University of Cape Town, 2005:
(a)
‘Representing Truth and Reconciliation in South African Writing’ (with
Dorothy Driver) (Honours/MA elective)
Class size: approximately 12 students
2.
English Department, Stellenbosch University, 2005-2011:
(a)
Introduction to Graduate Research & Writing (Hons, MA, PhD)
(b)
‘History of the Novel’ (with Daniel Roux) (Honours elective)
(c)
‘Representing Truth & Reconciliation’ (MA elective)
(d)
‘Feminism & Colonialism in White Women’s Writing’ (Honours/MA elective)
(e)
‘Oceanic Passages: Africa & the World’ (Honours/MA elective)
(f)
‘Mikhail Bakhtin – Theorising the (inter)textual and (inter)corporeal:
heteroglossia, the carnivalesque and grotesque realism’ (Honours; MA/PhD
theory seminars)
(g)
‘Judith Butler – Theorising on the (gendered) body: performativity and
vulnerability’ (Honours; MA/PhD theory seminars)
(h)
‘Feminism from Southern Africa’ (supplementary reading group for
MA/PhD/postdoctoral scholars)
Class size: approximately 5-25 students.
3.
Graduate School, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Stellenbosch, 2011:
(a)
‘Indian Ocean Africa’ (with Grace Musila, Sarah Nuttall, Isabel Hofmeyr and
Yvette Christiansë) (Locations & Locutions PhD seminar)
Class size: approximately 40 students.
4.
Visual Arts Department, Stellenbosch University, 2011:
(a)
‘Language & Subjectivity – Judith Butler: gender performativity, undoing
gender and precarious lives’ (Honours guest lecture)
Class size: 8 students
XI. EXTERNAL EXAMINING
(i)
External Examiner (undergraduate coursework)
Department of African Literatures, University of Witwatersrand: 2009-2011.
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(ii)
MA / PhD thesis examining
University of Cape Town; University of KwaZulu-Natal; University of Rhodes; University of
Stellenbosch; University of Witwatersrand.
XII. DEPARTMENTAL & FACULTY PORTFOLIOS & COMMITTEES
1.
Honours coordinator, English Department, Stellenbosch University: July 2005December 2007.
2.
E-learning coordinator, English Department, Stellenbosch University: January 2006December 2007.
3.
Research activities coordinator (founding), English Department, Stellenbosch
University: Jan 2008–Dec 2010 (weekly research seminars; annual introduction to
research & writing for graduate students; quarterly graduate symposia; annual graduate
conference; inviting and hosting visiting scholars; liaison with professors/lecturers
extraordinaire; developing and sustaining international networks; arranging visiting
expert consultations; developing departmental research foci, etc.).
4.
Research Seminar Series convenor, English Department, Stellenbosch University:
January 2008-December 2011.
5.
Member of Postgraduate Committee, English Department, Stellenbosch University:
January 2008-June 2011.
6.
Member of Faculty Research Committee, Arts & Social Sciences Faculty, Stellenbosch
University: January 2009-December 2011.
7.
Member of Faculty Creative Outputs Subcommittee, Arts & Social Sciences Faculty,
Stellenbosch University: January 2010-December 2010.
8.
Member of Graduate School Coordinating Committee, Arts & Social Sciences Faculty,
Stellenbosch University: January 2010-December 2011.
XIII. SIGNIFICANT AWARDS
1.
Commonwealth Scholarship, tenable at the University of Leeds for MA study: 1998-1999.
2.
Shawcross Scholarship, tenable at the University of Sussex: 1998-1999 (declined in favour
of Commonwealth Scholarship).
3.
University of Cape Town Research Associateship (by nomination): 2001 and 2004.
4.
AW Mellon Fellowship for PhD study, tenable at the University of Cape Town and the
University of California at Berkeley (as visiting scholar): 2001-2004.
5.
National Research Foundation (NRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship: 2005 (declined in favour
of lectureship at the University of Stellenbosch).
6.
NRF Thuthuka award for research project Southern African Subjectivities: Roots and
Routes in Literary and Cultural Studies: 2006-2011. Note: in addition to funding my
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research this project brought in approximately R1.5 million in graduate bursaries over a 6
year period.
7.
Rector’s Award for Research Excellence, University of Stellenbosch (award scheme
terminated in 2010): 2007-2012.
8.
Stellenbosch University Research Award: Research project Intimate Relations between
South Africa and South (East) Asia: 2009-2010.
9.
Rector’s Performance Award, Stellenbosch University (award scheme initiated in 2010):
2010; 2011.
10.
National Research Foundation Rating, 2011-2016: Y1 (currently under appeal by SU
Research Division and under review by the NRF)