Research Focus Areas

Our focus areas are the following:

• South African literature and popular culture

• African literature and popular culture

• African print cultures and book history

• Modernism and global modernisms

• Children’s literature

• Science fiction, African science fiction, and fantasy 

• Ecocriticism and environmental humanities

• Creative writing

• Diaspora and migration literatures

• Film and film theory

• Mediaeval and Renaissance (Early Modern) literatures

• Language in action, including TESOL and editing

Our members of staff and postgraduate students are engaged in research in many diverse fields, including African literature, the literature of the MIddle Ages and Renaissance and the 18th century, Modernism and early 20th-century literature, the novel, Irish literature, and post-colonial literature.

See the fields of interest of our members of staff in Staff Profiles.