RESEARCH INTERESTS
South African, African and Postcolonial Literature and Culture
Debates on Decoloniality and Intersectionality
Multilingualism and Translation
Critical University Studies and the significance of this field for the Humanities in South Africa
Gender Studies, particularly the legacies of colonial patriarchies
J.M. Coetzee
Poststructuralism
Cape Chronicles (see www.seapointpromenade.blogspot.com)
TEACHING AREAS
South African, African and Postcolonial Literature and Culture
Debates on Decoloniality and Intersectionality
Poststructuralism
Recently taught courses at New York University (2014):
"South African Fiction and Culture" - undergraduate seminar
"Writing Africa" - graduate seminar
Recently completed supervisions:
Tamlyn Ross, "The Apartheid Censors' Responses to the Work of Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral and Steve Biko", MA thesis, Stellenbosch University, 2013.
Andrea Buchanan, "Perspectives of Estrangement: England and Englishness in the Novels of Justin Cartwright", MA thesis, Stellenbosch University, 2013.
Emmanuel Ngwira, "Writing Marginality: Authorship, History and Gender in the Fiction of Zoë Wicomb and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie", PhD thesis, Stellenbosch University, 2013.