Academic Articles

    My research and teaching interests range from South African literature and cultural politics to Shakespeare studies; finding space somewhere in between these two are nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature, postcolonial writing, postmodernism, texts-in-translation and theatre studies.

    I'm the editor of the journal Shakespeare in Southern Africa and act as editorial consultant for various publications.

    The articles and essays below have appeared in scholarly journals or as chapters in books. Click on the titles for abstracts (short descriptions). For full-text versions, consult the relevant publication - many academic journals are available by subscription only, or through university libraries, but there are a number that are freely available online

"Educating Prospero: Misappropriating the Author(ity) of Books in The Tempest"

2009. Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 19: 41-58.

"'God Delay Our Rebellion!': Sexuality and Theology in All’s Well and Measure for Measure"

2007. Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 17: 77-96.

“Lawrence, Leavis and Butler: Appropriation, Influence, Association and ‘Redemption' "

2007. In Phelps and Bell (eds), D.H. Lawrence Around the World: South African Perspectives (Echoing Green Press), pp.267-292.

“Africa, old and new: Guy Butler and ‘The African Renaissance – A long view’”

2006. The English Academy Review 23(1): 23-33. First published in Postamble 2(1).

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