Academic

After completing a PhD at the University of Cape Town (UCT), I joined the School of Literature and Language Studies at Wits University as a lecturer at the start of 2008. 

I taught at UCT from 2004-2007 (in 2005 I also worked as a consultant at the university’s Writing Center). Prior to this I taught in the English Departments at the University of Stellenbosch and Rhodes University in Grahamstown. I have experience of teaching English as a second/foreign language in Japan and am familiar with the British higher educational environment – I gained an MA (with distinction) at Royal Holloway, University of London. I have also taught courses in applied journalism at Damelin College.

My research and teaching interests include: South African literature and cultural politics; nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature; postcolonial literature; Shakespeare; postmodernism; aspects of European literature (texts in translation by French, Spanish, Russian and German authors); and theatre studies.