Administrative Staff
Ms Lindiwe Mtimunye
Departmental Administrator
Tel: +27 12 420 2421
Email: [email protected]
Academic Staff
Prof. Molly Brown
Head of Department
Tel: +27 12 420 2421
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-5775-5058
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-brown-0b868429?originalSubdomain=za
Prof. David Medalie
Tel: +27 12 420 2716
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-1080-3072
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-medalie-29a91916/?originalSubdomain=za
Research interests:
Early twentieth century literature, modernism, South African literature, creative writing
Prof. Corinne Sandwith
Tel: +27 12 420 2617
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-5878-2493
Research interests:
South African intellectual history, book history, the South African public sphere, South African and African literature, the postcolony
Prof. Bridget Grogan
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-3695-9534
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridget-grogan-953888105/
Research interests:
Postcolonial and colonial literature, psychoanalysis and affect theory, global modernisms, metaphors of embodiment in South African literature, twentieth-century and contemporary literature.
Prof. Nedine Moonsamy
Tel: +27 12 420-4598
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-1052-5989
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedine-moonsamy-a3495b235/
Research interests:
Literary theory, postcolonial literature, cultural studies, film, science fiction in Africa
Dr Idette Noomé
Tel: +27 12 420 3379 or +27 12 420 2421
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-9405-3685
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/idette-noome-70578319/
Research interests:
Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, 17th century literature, children’s literature, LM Montgomery
Dr Patrick Lenahan
Tel: +27 12 420 4769
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0658-003X
Research interests:
Sixteenth and seventeenth century literature, Shakespeare, TESOL, Thomas Pringle, Olive Schreiner
Dr Rebecca Fasselt
Tel: +27 12 420 6809 or +27 12 420 2421
Email: [email protected]
Research interests:
African literature, migration and diaspora studies, intra-African migration, popular women’s writing, postcolonial literature
Dr Antony Goedhals
Tel: +27 12 420 2421 or +27 12 420 3985
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-5853-801X
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antony-goedhals-4915a81a5
Research interests:
Anglo-Saxon literature, Medieval literature, the history of the novel, Victorian literature, modernism
Dr Charne Lavery
Tel: +27 12 420 2421
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-9907-4143
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charne-lavery-2bb69a38/
Research interests:
Postcolonial and colonial literature, environmental humanities, critical oceanic studies, climate change, global modernisms
Dr Colette Guldimann
Tel: +27 12 420 6130
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-1492-1065
Research interests:
Popular culture, crime fiction, Southern African literature and media, ecocriticism in popular culture, critical theory
Ms Yolisa Kenqu
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-3039-9628
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-yolisa-kenqu-99a9b719b/
Research interests:
Twentieth and twenty-first century African literature, literatures of the Black diaspora, African cinema, popular culture, Africana critical theory
Dr Georg Nöffke
Tel: +27 12 420 2421
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-4030-1268
Research interests:
Twentieth-century literature, Sylvia Plath, modernism, postmodernism, film theory
Part-time
Ms Suzanne Jacobs
Tel: +27 12 420 2421
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 000-0002-2723-577X
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-jacobs-07042b80/
Ms Lilia Angelova
Tel: +27 12 420 2421
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilia-angelova-928725159
Ms Angela Ndweni
Tel: +27 726758451
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-ndweni-9501a7215/
Mr Jordan Stier
Tel: +27 82 791 9381
Email: [email protected]
Orcid: 0000-0001-5888-3350
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-stier-84a094237/
Mr Jarred Thompson
Tel: +27 73 347 0282
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0007-3803
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarred-thompson-71b9435b/
Mr Jeandré Visagie
Tel: +27 0798902265
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeandr%C3%A9-visagie-a40717235/
Tutors
First year tutors Email: [email protected]
Second year tutors Email: [email protected]
Research Associates
Prof Anthony Chennells
Email: [email protected]
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr Adrienne Van Eeden-Wharton
Host: Dr Charne Lavery
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-7454-4498
Research interests:
Environmental humanities, critical oceanic studies, multispecies histories and justice, art practice-as-research
Dr Confidence Joseph
Host: Dr Charne Lavery
Email: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-3213-0964
Research interests:
Oceanic humanities, African and diaspora literatures, postcolonial literature, gender studies
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