Senior Lecturer
MA (UCT), PhD (Cambridge)
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TEACHING AREAS

Life Writing; South African and African Literatures; African American Literatures; World Literatures; Modernism; Literary Urbanisms; Gender

RESEARCH AREAS

World and Transnational Literatures; Urban Studies; Cultural Studies; South African and African Literatures; Critical Theory; Race Studies, Waste Studies

PUBLICATIONS 

BOOKS

• Refractive Realisms: Literature, Culture and the South African Township (Transdisciplinary Souths, Routledge, 2025)
• Categories of Persons: Rethinking Ourselves and Others with J. Dlamini eds (Picador Africa, 2013)

BOOK CHAPTERS

• "Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the Contemporary Township" in South African Literary Studies: A Safundi Reader on Genre, Method, and Ideas, 1999-2024, Christopher J. Lee and Andrew Offenburger, eds (2025)
• “Imagining the Migrant in 21st Century Johannesburg” in The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature, Ato Quayson and Jini Watson, eds (2023)
• with J. Dlamini, "Introduction" in Categories of Persons
• "Moving" in Categories of Persons 

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• “Love in the Global South: A Feminist Pedagogy” with Nadia Sanger. Social Dynamics Special Issue: Reading Feminisms in India and South Africa. Megan Jones, Mala Pandurang, Nadia Sanger, Dhrupadi Chattopadhyay (eds), forthcoming 2026.
• “Reading the Rubbish Dump as a Heterotopia in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9”, Social Dynamics, 46.2 (2020)
• “The Train as Motif in Soweto Poetry”, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 53.1 (2018).
• “Junk Aesthetics from South Africa, Brazil and India: Re-evaluating the Object”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 43.5 (2017)
• “Haunting the Social: Conversing with Ghosts in Redi Tlhabi’s Endings and Beginnings“, Journal of African Cultural Studies 26.3 (2014)
• “Fracture and Selfhood in Jacob Dlamini’s Native Nostalgia“, African Studies, 73.1 (2014)
• Township Textualities’ Alternation, ‘Race, Power and Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Special Issue (October, 2013)
• ‘Conspicuous Destruction, Aspiration and Motion in the Contemporary Township’ Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 14.2 (2013)
• ‘Cars, Capital and Disorder in Ivan Vladislavic’s The Exploded View and Portrait with Keys, Social Dynamics, 37.3 (2012)
• ‘Black Mobility and Urbanism in Peter Abrahams’s Mine Boy, Journal of Southern African Studies, 38.1 (2012)
• ‘Keeping House: Domesticity and Disorder in Sarah Gertrude Millin’s Middle Class and The Jordans, English Studies in Africa, 54.1 (May 2011)

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

• Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa Review, Chimurenga
• The Blacks of Cape Town Review, Slipnet, December 2013
• ‘A Response to Peter Geschiere’ Johannesburg Salon (November 2009).
• ‘Brothers in Blood Theatre Review’ Johannesburg Salon (November 2009).