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 gained an MA (with distinction) at Royal Holloway, University of London and taught English as a second/foreign language in Japan. I have also taught courses in applied journalism at Damelin College.

I'm the editor of the journal Shakespeare in Southern Africa and have acted as editorial consultant for English Studies in Africa, the Journal of Literary Studies and scrutiny2. I also contribute to the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES).

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.