RESEARCH INTERESTS

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Postcolonial studies; South African and African studies; feminism and gender studies (particularly the legacies of postcolonial patriarchies); debates on decoloniality and intersectionality. 

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TEACHING 

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Teaching as collaboration, debate, conversation; South African, African and postcolonial literature and culture; feminism and gender studies; debates on decoloniality and intersectionality. 

Supervisions:

Currently supervising MA and PhD scholars at the University of Johannesburg on: post-apartheid representations of Nelson Mandela; alternative masculinities in South African fiction; childlessness in selected literary texts by African women; theatre and the law in post-apartheid South Africa; intimate partner violence in texts by women in the United States.   

Tamlyn Ross, "The Apartheid Censors' Responses to the Work of Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral and Steve Biko", MA thesis, Stellenbosch University, completed 2012.

Andrea Buchanan, "Perspectives of Estrangement: England and Englishness in the Novels of Justin Cartwright", MA thesis, Stellenbosch University, completed 2012.

Emmanuel Ngwira, "Writing Marginality: Authorship, History and Gender in the Fiction of Zoë Wicomb and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", PhD thesis, Stellenbosch University, completed 2012.