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Professor Sarah Nuttall D.Phil (Oxford) DESIGNATION Professor   PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 2009. Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-Apartheid. Wits University Press.   2009. Load Shedding: Writing On and Over the Edge of South Africa. Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Liz McGregor. Jonathan Ball. 2008. Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis. Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe. Duke University Press. 2007. At Risk: Writing On and Over the Edge of South Africa. Edited by Liz McGregor and Sarah Nuttall. Jonathan Ball. (2nd imprint) 2006. Beautiful-Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics. Edited by Sarah Nuttall. Duke University Press. Winner, Arthur Rubin Award. 2000. Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies. Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl Ann Michael. Oxford University Press. 1998. Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee. Oxford University Press. (5th imprint) 1996. Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia. Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Liz Gunner and Sarah Nuttall. Routledge.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS     Forthcoming.  2012. 'Mandela's Mortality'. In The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela. Ed Rita Barnard. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 2012. 'The Rise of the Surface: New Directions for Reading and Criticism in South Africa'.  In Text and Print Cultures in Southern  Africa. Ed Andrew van der Vlies. Wits University Press. Johannesburg.  2012. 'Violence, Recomposition, Surface: Visual Cultures in Johannesburg'. In Necropolitics, Militarisation and Grievable Life. Ed. Helena Chavez. Museum of Modern Art. Mexico City. Translated into Spanish. 2011. 'Stylizing the Self'. In Global Visual Cultures. Ed. Zoya Kocur. Wiley-Blackwell. London and New York. Reprint.   2010. 'Entanglement, Humanism, Responsibility'. In Humanitarianism and Responsibility. Edited by Kerry Bystrom and Alexis Dudden. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. 2010. 'Surfaces and Underneaths: Ivan Vladislavic's Portrait with Keys'. In Marginal Spaces: Essays on the Work of Ivan Vladislavic. Edited by Gerald Gaylard. Wits University Press and James Currey. Forthcoming. 2009. 'I Love You I Hate You'. In Load Shedding. Edited by Liz McGregor and Sarah Nuttall. Jonathan Ball. 2009. 'Literary City'. In Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis. Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe. Duke University Press. 2008. 'Stylizing the Self'. In Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis. Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe. Duke University Press. 2008. 'Afropolis'. Introduction. In Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis. Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe. Duke University Press. 2008. 'What The Blood Remembers'. In At Risk: Writing On and Over the Edge of South Africa, edited by Sarah Nuttall and Liz McGregor. Jonathan Ball. 2007. 'Youth Cultures of Consumption in Johannesburg'. In Youth Moves: Identities and Education in Global Perspective. Edited by Nadine Dolby and Fazal Rizvi. Routledge.  2007. 'Rethinking Beauty'. In Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics, edited by Sarah Nuttall, Duke University Press. 2006. 'Inside the City: Reassembling the Township in Yvonne Vera's Fiction' in Versions of Zimbabwe: Literature, History and Politics, edited by Robert Muponde and Ranka Primorac. Weaver Press and James Currey. 2005. 'The Shock of Beauty: Penny Siopis' Pinky Pinky and Shame Series'. In Penny Siopis. Edited by Kathryn Smith. The Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg. 2005. 'Subjectivities of Whiteness', in Making History Memorable: Past and Present in Settler Colonialism. Edited by Annie E. Coombes. Manchester University Press. 2005. 'Bodiographies: Writing the Flesh in Arthur Nortje'. In Arthur Nortje: Poet and South African. Ed. Craig McLuckie. UNISA Press. 2002. 'Reading Lives: Interviews with South African Women'. In African Popular Fiction. Edited by Stephanie Newell. James curry and Indiana University Press. 2002. 'The Biography of Texts: Literary Studies and the Archive' in Refiguring the Archive. Edited by Carolyn Hamilton, David Philip and Kluwer. 2002. 'Introduction', with Cheryl Ann Michael, Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies. 2000. 'Autobiographical Acts', in Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies. 1996. 'Introduction', with Carli Coetzee, Negotiating the Past: the Making of Memory in South Africa. 1998. 'Telling 'Free' Stories? Memory and Democracy in South African Autobiography Since 1994' in Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. 1996. 'Flatness and Fantasy: Representations of the Land in Two Recent South African Novels' in Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia.

JOURNAL ARTICLES Forthcoming. 2012. 'Introduction: Private Life/Public Culture in South Africa'. Cultural Studies. Special Issue. Ed. Sarah Nuttall and Kerry Bystrom. Forthcoming. 2012. 'Servitude and the Politics of the House: From Mandela to Malema'. Cultural Studies. 2011. 'Penny Siopis and the Limits of Alterity'. Social Dynamics, vol.37, no.2.  2009. 'On Photography, Proximity and Indifference'. Art South Africa. Vol 8. no.2. p.9 2008. 'About Beauty'. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 22/33 Spring/Summer. pp.136-145. 2007. 'Afropolis: From Johannesburg'. PMLA 22 (1), pp.281-288. 2006. 'A Politics of the Emergent: Cultural Studies in South Africa'. Theory, Culture and Society 23 (7&8), pp.263-278. 2005. 'A Blasé Attitude: A Response to Michael Watts'. With Achille Mbembe. Public Culture 17 (1), pp. 193-201. 2004. 'City Forms and Writing the Now in South Africa', Journal of Southern African Studies 30 (4), pp.731-748. 2004. 'Stylizing the Self: The Y Generation in Rosebank, Johannesburg', Public Culture 16 (3), pp.430-452. 2004. 'Writing the World from an African Metropolis', Introduction, co-authored by Achille Mbembe, special issue of Public Culture. Guest editor. 16 (3). pp.347-372. 2004. 'Girl Bodies', Social Text 78 Spring pp.17-34. 2004. 'Self and Text in Y Magazine', African Identities, 1 (2), pp. 235-252. 2001. 'Introduction', with Isabel Hofmeyr, special issue on 'The Book in Africa', Current Writing 13/2 , pp. 1-10. 2001. 'Visual Representations of Reading in South African Painting and Photography', Current Writing 13/2, pp.181-186. 2001. 'Subjectivities of Whiteness' in African Studies Review, 44/2, pp.115-140. 2001. 'Reading, Recognition and the Post-Colonial' in Interventions, 3/3, pp.391-404. 2000. 'Re-imagining South African Cultural Studies' in African Sociological Review pp. 1-20. 1998. 'History and Identity in Australian Women's Autobiography' in Women's Writing (Special Issue on Australian Writing), vol.5, no.2, pp.189-200. 1997. 'Popular Stories of Apartheid: Gillian Slovo's South African Novels' in Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. XXXII, No.1, pp. 79-92. 1997. 'Nationalism, Literature and Identity in South Africa and Australia' in Australian Studies, vol.12, no.2, Winter, pp. 58-68. 1996. 'Reading and Recognition in Three South African Women's Autobiographies' in Current Writing, vol 8, no.1, April pp. 1-18. 1994. 'Reading in the Lives of Black South African Women' in Journal of Southern African Studies, vol.20, no.1,  pp.85-98. 1993. 'Epistemologies of Reading in South African Women's Writing' in Aspects of Commonwealth Literature: Collected Seminar Papers, vol.3, no.46, pp.8-17.