MA (Postcolonial Literatures) (University of Leeds), PhD (University of Cape Town)
DESIGNATION
Associate Professor
TEACHING AREAS
Southern African literatures; Oceanic Africa: the black Atlantic and the Indian Ocean world; Feminist theory and women's writing; Colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory .
RESEARCH
Southern African literatures and cultures
Gender and feminist theory in the (post)colony
Oceanic worlds and cultures of the sea, the beach and the port city
South African-Indian cultural networks
African urban cultures
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OTHER
Within the university: Research Activities coordinator, English Department; member of Postgraduate Committee, English Department;; member of Research Committee, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
Outside the university: co-editor of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies; book reviews editor of English Academy Review; editorial board member of English Studies in Africa and Current Writing
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? Stories of the South African Transition.
Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Forthcoming: 'Textual Subjects in Motion: Letters, Literature and Print-Media in an Indian South African Exchange (1928-1946)'. Asian Studies Review (Special issue: 'Intercolonial Networks, Oceanic Circulations').
Forthcoming: '(Un)lawful Subjects of Company: Reading Cape Town from Tavern of the Seas to Corporate City'. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Special issue: 'Law & Literature in the Indian Ocean').
Forthcoming: 'Sea-changes, dark tides and littoral states: Oceans and coastlines in the post-apartheid literary imagination'. Alternation (Special issue: Coastlines & Littoral Zones).
'Orienting the Cape: A White Woman Writing Islam in South Africa'. Social Dynamics 37.3 (2011).
'Reading Zoë Wicomb's Cosmopolitan, Domestic and Recursive Settings'. Current Writing 23.2 (2011): 88-92.
"Scripting Connections: Reflections on the 'post-transitional'". English Studies in Africa (Special issue: 'Post-transitional' South African literature) 53.1 (2010): 113-17.
'Oceanic Histories and Protean Poetics: The Surge of the Sea in Zoë Wicomb's Fiction'. Journal of Southern African Studies 36.3 (2010): 543-57.
'(Un)settled States: Indian Ocean Passages, Performative Belonging and Restless Mobility in Post-Apartheid Fiction'. Social Dynamics (Special issue: Global Africa: Travel, Transfer, Translation) 36.2 (2010): 272-87.
'Lose your mother, kill your child: the passage of slavery and its afterlife in narratives by Yvette Christiansë and Saidiya Hartman'. English Studies in Africa (Special issue: Story of the Voyage) 51.2 (2008): 38-48.
"Walking Through the Door and Inhabiting the House: South African Literary Culture and Criticism after the Transition" in English Studies in Africa 51.1 (2008): 133-40.
"A Community of Letters on the Indian Ocean Rim: Friendship, Fraternity and (Af-)filial Love" in English in Africa 35.1 (2008): 25-41.
"The Urban Palimpsest: Re-Presenting Sophiatown" in Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44.1 (2008): 63-75.
(with Dorothy Driver): "History's Intimate Invasions: Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins" in English Studies in Africa 50.2 (2007)
"Melancholy States, Statist Mourning and the Poetics of Memory in Post-Conflict Fiction from Southern Africa" in Journal of Social Studies 115 (2007): 45-68.
"Re-imagining South Africa via a Passage to India: M.K. Jeffreys's Archive of the Indian Ocean World" in Social Dynamics 33.2 (2007): 61-85.
"The City Beyond the Border: The Urban Worlds of Duiker, Mpe & Vera" in African Identities 5.2 (2007): 247-60.
"The Disfigured Body of the Female Guerrilla: (De)Militarization, Sexual Violence and Re-Domestication in Zoë Wicomb's David's Story" in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 32.4 (2007): 833-56.
"Yvonne Vera's Bulawayo: Modernity, (Im)Mobility, Music & Memory" in Research in African Literatures 38.2 (2007): 22-35.
'Home and the World': Three South African Women's Memoirs and the Contestation of Social Fictions" in English Academy Review 22 (2005): 32-42.
"Cracked Vases and Untidy Seams: Narrative Structure and Closure in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and South African Fiction" in Current Writing 15.2 (2003): 63-76.
"The Rainbow Womb: Rape and Race in South African Fiction of the Transition" in Kunapipi: Journal of Post Colonial Writing 24.1&2 (2002): 88-100.
"Reading the Maternal Voice in Sindiwe Magona's To My Children's Children and Mother to Mother" in Modern Fiction Studies 46.1 (2000): 227-245.
