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TEACHING AREAS

Southern African literature, literatures of the environment, postcolonial and world literature, short fiction

RESEARCH AREAS

Environmental humanities, Southern African literature, postcolonial literature, critical game studies

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Life & Times of Michael K.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee. Eds. Andrew van der Vlies & Lucy Valerie Graham. Bloomsbury, 2023.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Between a Post-Anthropocentric Rock and a Postcolonial Hard Place: Notes Towards a Planetary Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.” English in Africa, 2025 (research article)

“Short takes on disjointed times: literary form and social thought in Graham K. Riach’s The Short Story After Apartheid.” Safundi, 2024. (review essay)

“Life & Times of Michael K.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee, 2023. (book chapter)

“Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather.” English Studies in Africa 66.1 (2023). 1-13. 

“From Apartheid to the Planetary Present: Breaching Time in Nadine Gordimer’s Something Out There.” Social Dynamics 48.2 (2022). 207-223. 

“The ‘baboon boy’ of the Eastern Cape and the making of the human in South Africa.” Social Dynamics 44.1 (2018). 146-157. 

“J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and the Poetics of Resistance.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 52.1 (2017). 70-83. 

“‘The Country of his Heart’: J.M. Coetzee, Wordsworth and the Karoo Farm.” English in Africa 42.2 (2015). 7-24. 

“J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Selfhood.” English in Africa 39.1 (2012). 21-36.

“Reading Through the Gates: Structure, Desire and Subjectivity in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.” English in Africa 36.2 (2009). 63-77. 

REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS

“Short takes on disjointed times: literary form and social thought in Graham K. Riach’s The Short Story After Apartheid.” 

“Battling Ghosts From the Past and Building Walls: An Island by Karen Jennings.” 

CREATIVE WRITING

Short Stories

 “The Fog.” The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2025.

“Let The Worms Have It.” The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2022.

“Home(TM).” The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2022.