SELECT CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
"Decolonising Adamastor: From Os Lusíadas to Thirteen Cents", paper presented at the conference, Camões @ Harvard: Navigating 450 years of Os Lusíadas, October 2022.
"Decolonial currents in South Africa and Beyond", presented by invitation in a panel on "Decolonising the Arts and Social Sciences", São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil, May 2022.
"Poetry, linguistic citizenship, and the Zuma rape trial", research seminar in English Department at the University of Johannesburg, August 2019.
"On White 'Allies' and Leaderless Movements", presented in a panel of UWC and UCT students, "Debates on Decoloniality", at Duke University, Wabash College, De Pauw University and New York University, April 2018.
"Meanings of the Mendi", seminar at Queen Mary, University of London, Oct 2017.
"'Ndim musan' ukoyika': Meanings of the Mendi", co-presented with Sive Shosha (UWC student), UWC English Department conference, August 2017. (This paper is part of a project of collaborative translation of poems about the Mendi).
"Who is Speaking Me?": In the archives with Susan Barton, “Reading Coetzee’s Women” Conference, Prato, Italy, September 2016.
“Olive Schreiner and Rhodes Must Fall”, The Schreiner Literary Festival, Cradock, July 2016.
"Understanding Marikana through the lens of 'Yakhal'inkomo'" (Representing Marikana), Association for Commonweath Literature and Languages Studies (ACLALS) Conference, Stellenbosch University, July 2016.
"Representing Marikana", Place and Imagination Conference, University of the Western Cape, July 2015.
"'Then you are a man, my son': Kipling and the Zuma rape trial", A Symposium on Gender and Sexuality in South African Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylviania, November 2014.
"Lauretta Ngcobo's response to Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man", Cradock Literary Festival, Eastern Cape, July 2014.
"States of Peril and Beyond", invited speaker, "The Haunted Present: Reckoning After Apartheid", Duke University, April 2014.
"Black Humor", Panel: "The Comic Mask: Theorising Satire, Humor and Laughter in South African Culture", American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York University, March 2014.
"South African Photographs and Fictions", Fulbright Project Presentation, African Studies Association Meeting, Baltimore, November 2013.
Seminar on Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, co-presented with Margaret Hanzimanolis, City College of San Francisco, September 2013.
"States of Peril and Beyond", English Department Research Seminar Series, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, August 2013.
State of Peril book launch seminar, HUMA (University of Cape Town Humanities Institute), August 2012.
State of Peril book launch seminar, New York University, March 2012.
Organiser and contributor, panel on “Image/Text: South African Photos and Fictions”, Stellenbosch University English Department Seminar Series, February 2012.
Invited speaker, panel on South African Literature, University of York (UK), June 2011.
"J.M. Coetzee and Virginia Woolf", invited speaker, conference on “J.M. Coetzee and His Precursors”, University of Leeds, June 2011. Paper entitled:
Interview with David Attwell, “J.M. Coetzee: A Writer’s Life”, Stellenbosch University English Department Seminar Series, April 2011.
Organiser and contributor, panel on District 9, Stellenbosch University English Department Seminar Series, April 2010.
“‘Being Blind’: J.M. Coetzee and the Task of the Translatoress.” Invited speaker, inaugural address of the South African Text/Image/Performance Seminar Series, Queen Mary, University of London, June 2010. Paper:
“‘Consequential changes’: Daphne Rooke’s Mittee in America and South Africa”, University of Stellenbosch English Department Seminar Series, August 2009.
“‘Being Blind’: J.M. Coetzee and the Task of the Translatoress.” Invited speaker, keynote panel of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference, Twentieth Century Literature Division. Panel entitled: “Global Writing: New Directions in J.M. Coetzee’s Fiction”, San Francisco, December 2008. Paper entitled: