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