MA, DLitt (Stellenbosch)
DESIGNATION
Lecturer
TEACHING
Nineteenth & twentieth-century American literature
The nineteenth-century novel
American modernist poetry
The Western
Romanticism
Film studies
RESEARCH
American literature & cultural memory
Literary topographies / frontier imaginaries
Empire
Oceanic studies
David Kramer (biography)
PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Forthcoming: " 'Van Daai Plek': David Kramer, Die Ballade van Koos Sas, and the Ground of Being." Journal of Literary Studies 26.2 (2010).
"After the Revolution: Entrepreneurial Temporality in Jerusalema." South African Theatre Journal 23 (2009).
"Crossing 'the Deadly Space Between': Moby-Dick and the Traversal of the Sea." English Studies in Africa 51.2 (2008): 69-83.
"Imperial Misnomers: Herman Melville's Subversion of Narratives of Exploration." Social Dynamics 33.2 (December 2007): 184-203.
"Wallace Stevens's 'Nuances of a Theme by Williams'." The Explicator 65.2 (2007): 101-04.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Forthcoming: "Naturalised Americans and Spectral Indians: The Fate of the Turner Myth of American History." The Survival of Myth: Innovation, Singularity and Alterity. Ed. David Kennedy and Paul Hardwick. Cambridge Scholars Press.
"Following the Shifting Pole-Star: Frontier Metaphysics in DH Lawrence." DH Lawrence Around the World: South African Perspectives. Ed. Jim Phelps and Nigel Bell. Empangeni: Echoing Green Press, 2007. 194-225.
Dr Dawid de Villiers
