Curriculum Vitae - Laurence Wright
Title / Name
Professor Laurence Wright
Qualifications
BA Hons (Rhodes), MA (Warwick), D.Phil (Oxford)
Publications
Books:
(As from 2009)
Laurence Wright, ed. 2012. South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the
Eastern Cape. NISC.
Laurence Wright, ed. 2009. South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth
Century. The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Vol. 9. Ashgate.
Laurence Wright, ed. 2009. Stimela: Railway Poems of South Africa.
Echoing Green.
Chapters in Books:
Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘National Language Conundrums in the Rural
Classroom.’ South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape.
Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC.
Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Origins of the Eastern Cape Education Crisis’.
South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape. Ed.
Laurence Wright. NISC.
Laurence Wright and Monica Hendricks. 2012. ‘“Power bedevils
everything”: Towards improving education in the Eastern Cape. An
interview with Dr Frank Peters.’ South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views
from the Eastern Cape. Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC.
Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Rural Teachers, Reading and the Social
Imagination.’ South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern
Cape. Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC.
Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Teachers as Heroes.’ South Africa’s Education
Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape. Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC.
Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Notes from a Rhenish Mission: The Sparse code of
a great song.’ No Other World: Essays on the Life-work of Don Maclennan.
Ed. Dan Wylie. Print Matters.
Laurence Wright. 2010. ’David Lurie’s Learning and the meaning of J.M.
Coetzee’s Disgrace.’ J.M. Coetzee’s Austerities. Ed. Graham Bradshaw and
Michael Neill. Ashgate.
Laurence Wright. 2010. Irony and Transcendence on the Renaissance
Stage. ‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Mediaeval and Early
Modern England. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Brepols.
Laurence Wright. 2009. ‘South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth
Century.’ Shakespearean International Yearbook 9. Ashgate.
Laurence Wright. 2009. ‘Umabatha: Zulu play or Shakespeare
translation?’ Shakespearean International Yearbook 9. Ashgate.
Academic articles:
Laurence Wright. 2013. ‘Towards “Discourse 4”: Re-orientating research
discourse to address a key aspect of South Africa’s education crisis.’
Southern African Review of Education 19.1.
Laurence Wright. 2013. ‘Valuing the Humanities: What the Reports don’t
say.’ South African Journal of Science 1.2 (109).
Laurence Wright. 2013. ‘Irreplaceable Acting.’ Shakespeare in Southern
Africa 25.
Laurence Wright. 2013. ‘Guy Butler’s South Africanism: “Being present
where you are”.’ Lecture delivered at Rhodes University on being
awarded the English Academy’s Gold Medal. The English Academy Review
29.2.
Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Language as a “Resource” in South Africa: The
Economic Life of Language in a Globalising Society.’ The English Academy
Review: Golden Jubilee Commemorative Edition. Reprint.
Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘”Being present where you are”: Guy Butler’s
South Africanism (with notes on Kirkwood and Coetzee).’ Current Writing
24.1.
Laurence Wright, Guest Editor. 2012. Interrogating the Spread of
Shakespeare: Australia and New Zealand. Multicultural Shakespeare 8.
Laurence Wright. 2011. ‘”Iron on iron”: Modernism engaging apartheid in
some South African Railway Poems.’ English Studies in Africa 54.2.
Laurence Wright. 2010. ‘Third World Express: Trains and “revolution” in
Southern African poetry.’ Literator 31.2.
Laurence Wright with Brian Pearce. 2009. ‘”Intellectual challenge is as
necessary as breathing”: an interview with Laurence Wright.’ English
Academy Review. 26.1.
Laurence Wright. 2009. ‘Nathaniel Merriman’s Lecture: “Shakspeare as
Bearing on English History”.’ Shakespeare in Southern Africa. 21.
Master / Doctoral
studies supervised
(completed)
Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). O. Cartwright (novel).
Graduated, 2012.
Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). L. Gowans (propsepoem). Graduated, 2012.
Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (supervisor). Q. Hogge (poetry
collection). Graduated, 2013.
Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). R. Malatshe (novel).
Graduated, 2012.
Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). S. Mahlangu (novel).
Graduated, 2012.
Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). N. Tshisela (short story
collection). Graduated, 2012.
Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). M. v.d. Nest (poetry
collection). Graduated, 2012.
Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). R. Woudstra (novel).
Graduated, 2012.
Special awards /
recognition /positions
Gold Medal, English Academy of Southern Africa (2010)
Honorary Life President, Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa
Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Senior Research Medal (2009)
Elected to the South African Academy of Science (2009)
Editorial Board, Shakespeare, (Journal of the British Shakespeare
Association)
Editorial Board, English Studies in Africa, (University of the
Witwatersrand)
Editorial Board, English Academy Review, (English Academy of Southern
Africa)
Editor, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 1992–1998
Current / Previous
affiliation
Formerly H.A. Molteno Professor of English and Director of the Institute
for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University.
Contact details
l.wright@ru.ac.za