"Writing the prison". In The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Ed. David Attwell and Derek Attridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Forthcoming.)
"'I speak to you and I listen to the voice coming back': recording solitary confinement in the apartheid prison." English Academy Review 22(1), 2006.
In addition, I have published a number of review articles and some creative writing. At the moment I am working on a chapter titled "Writing Mandela/Mandela Writing" that I was contracted to write for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela (ed. Rita Barnard).
RECENT CONFERENCES
Roux, Daniel. "Nation and prison in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom". Try Freedom EACLALS Conference, Venice, Italy, 2008.
"'A monster in his thought to hideous to be shown': Othello and the postcolonial critics". Conference of the South African Association of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Stellenbosch, 2008.
"Prison Writing after Apartheid: Jonny Steinberg's The Number". University of Stellenbosch English Department Seminar, 2008.
"Shakespeare's Othello as post-colonial case study". Transitions and Translations: Africa in the Global Imaginary Symposium, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 2008.
"South African women's accounts of imprisonment under apartheid." Theory and Practice of Life Writing Conference, Halic University, Istanbul, 2006.
"Women in apartheid prisons: the case of Ruth First". Ethnic Life Writing and Histories MESEA Conference, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2006.
"'The writer destroys time': Solitary confinement in prison writing under apartheid". Fact Bordering Fiction Symposium, English Department, University of Stellenbosch, 2005.
"Aphanisis of/as the subject: from Christopher Marlowe to Ruth First". Wits Shakespeare and Renaissance Colloquium, University of the Witwatersrand, 2004.
"Forgetting how to write: writing, genre and power in the UCT Law Faculty". Law Foundation Courses Conference, University of the Western Cape, 2002.
Past and present postgraduate students
The titles of the theses and dissertations below should give some indication of the kind of work I am able to supervise.
Amid, Jonathan. Where Art Meets Life in Secret: Excavating Subjects in Selected Works of Michael Ondaatje. Full MA thesis. 2009 - 2011. Awarded with distinction.
Cox, Alexia. The Essence of Motivation in Harry Potter: A Business Management Approach. PhD thesis. 2006 - present. In progress.
Le Roux, Selene. Poetry of Revolution: Poetic Representation of Political Conflict and
Transition in Milton's Paradise Lost and Marvell's Cromwellian Poems. MA mini-dissertation, 2004 - 2007. Awarded.
Malherbe, Mike. Narrative, Power and the Role of the Collaborator in Post-Apartheid Prison Memoirs. Full MA thesis, 2007 - present. In progress.
Ndlovu, Isaac. An Examination of Prison, Criminality and Power in Selected Contemporary Kenyan and South African Narratives. PhD thesis, 2008 - 2010. Awarded.
Rosochaki, Elke. Ethics in Anil's Ghost. MA full dissertation, 2006 - 2007. Awarded with distinction.
Steenkamp, Elzette. Borrowing Identities: Autonomy and Anxieties in Three Post-Colonial Texts. MA full dissertation. Awarded with distinction.
Steenkamp, Janka. Myth, Symbol and Reality in David Eddings' Belgariad and JK Rowling's Harry Potter. Full MA thesis, 2007 - present. Awarded.
Van Heerden, Deon. Physical and Psychological Prisons under Apartheid [provisional title]. MA full dissertation. 2009 - present. In progress.
Weyer, Christine. Being a Woman-Poet: Contesting Identities in the Work of Joan Metelerkamp. MA full dissertation. 2006 - 2007. Awarded with distinction.
Dr Daniel Roux
