Research Interests

Academic Staff

Name and email address	Research interests (please see Staff Profiles for more information)
Head of Department Prof. Corinne Sandwith [email protected]	South African print culture, South African intellectual history, book history, the counter-public sphere, South African and African literature, the postcolony, memory studies.
Prof. Molly Brown [email protected]	Children’s literature, eighteenth-century literature, medievalism, scifi and the early modern romance
Dr Rebecca Fasselt r[email protected]	African literature, migration and diaspora studies, intra-African migration, popular women’s writing, postcolonial literature
Dr Antony Goedhals [email protected]	Anglo-Saxon, Medieval literature, the history of the novel, Victorian literature, Buddhism, modernism
Dr Colette Guldimann [email protected]	Popular culture, crime fiction, Southern African literature and media, ecocriticism in popular culture, critical theory
Dr Yolisa Kenqu [email protected]	Twentieth and twenty-first century African literature, literatures of the Black diaspora, African cinema, popular culture, African critical theory
Dr Bonnie Kneen [email protected]	Children’s and young adult literature, gender and sexuality, girlhood studies, bisexuality, autoethnography
Dr Charne Lavery [email protected]	Postcolonial and colonial literature, environmental humanities, critical oceanic studies, cultures of climate change, global modernisms, narrative nonfiction
Prof. David Medalie [email protected]	Early twentieth century literature, modernism, South African literature, creative writing
Dr Isaac Ndlovu [email protected]	African prison narratives, auto/biography, contemporary South African and Zimbabwean fiction, decoloniality, ethics and contemporary African fiction, literary theory
Dr Georg Nöffke [email protected]	Twentieth-century literature, Sylvia Plath, modernism, postmodernism, film theory
Dr Idette Noomé [email protected]	Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, 17th-century literature, late 19th-century and early 20th-century Children’s literature, L.M. Montgomery, translation studies, plain language and communication, comparative studies
Dr Albert Oloruntoba [email protected]	Postcolonial literature, African dramatic literature, performance studies and film criticism, popular culture, African urbanities, gender studies
Mr Jarred Thompson [email protected]	The cultural politics of emotion, affect studies, race, gender, class and sexualities studies in Africa, post-apartheid South African popular cultures, African popular cultures, men and masculinities studies, creative writing, film studies

- Author Zama Mthembu

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