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Dr Lucy Valerie Graham MA (Rhodes),  D.Phil. (Oxford) DESIGNATION Lecturer RESEARCH INTERESTS J.M. Coetzee Gender Studies South African literature, culture and film Post-structuralism Cape Chronicles (see www.seapointpromenade.blogspot.com)   RESEARCH PROJECTS Click on this link for more information. TEACHING AREAS J.M. Coetzee Gender Studies Literature, culture and film Post-structuralism PUBLICATIONS BOOK

State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature, Oxford University Press, March 2012.

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS  "'The 'Great Coloured Question' and the Cosmopolitan: Fiction, History and Politics in David's Story" (co-author: Hugh W. Macmillan), SAFUNDI: The Journal of American and South African Studies, 12.3&4 (2011).   "Amakwerekwere and other aliens: District 9 and Hospitality." District 9: A Roundtable SAFUNDI: The Journal of American and South African Studies, (Jan 2010) Volume 11 Issue 1, 155 "'Consequential changes': Daphne Rooke's Mittee in America and South Africa", SAFUNDI: The Journal of American and South African Studies, 10.1. Jan 2009. "Reimagining the Cave: Gender, Land and Imperialism in Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland"  English Studies in Africa, 50.1 2007. 25-40. "Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace", Journal of Southern African Studies 29.2, June 2003 pp.433-444; and in Versions/ Subversions Conference Proceedings. "'A Hidden Side to the Story": Reading Rape in Recent South African Literature", Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 24, 1&2, 2002, 9-24. "'Yes, I Am Giving Him Up": Sacrificial Responsibility in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace", Scrutiny 2 7.2, 2002, 4-15. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS   "Textual Transvestism: The Female Voices of J.M. Coetzee", J.M. Coetzee: The Ethics of Intellectual Practice, ed. Jane Poyner, Ohio University Press, 2006. " 'Bathing Area - for Whites Only' : Reading Prohibitive Signs and "Black Peril" in Mating Birds", Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi, ed. Lindy Stiebel, Rodopi, 2005, and WITS University Press, 2006. "Reading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace", Versions/ Subversions Conference on African Literature, Berlin, Germany, 1-4 May 2002. Published in the conference proceedings. Rodopi 2005. Lewis Nkosi, World Writers in English, Thomson Gale, 2003. J.M. Coetzee, World Writers in English, Thomson Gale, 2003. OTHER:   "Karoo Voodoo: A Décor Style" http://slipnet.co.za/view/blog/karoo-voodoo/ "Hot topic. ... South African Crime Fiction" http://slipnet.co.za/view/event/hot-topic-%E2%80%A6-south-african-crime-fiction/ "Achille Mbembe: Democracy and the Ethics of Mutuality" http://slipnet.co.za/view/event/achille-mbembe-%E2%80%93-democracy-and-the-ethics-of-mutuality-notes-from-the-south-african-experiment/