Research areas, postgraduate study and 2009-2011 publications in the Department of English Studies

Research areas

Academic literacy and multidisciplinary language support	Mr Clifford Ndlangamandla, Ms Thuli Shandu, Mr Jack Chokwe (academic literacies in particular), Prof Mirriam Lephalala
African literature	Ms Rizwana Latha,  Prof David Levey, Dr Felicity Horne, Ms Princess Bembe, Dr Bernard Nchindila, Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto, Prof Fetson Kalua, Dr Sope Maithufi, Mr Mzukisi Lento, Prof Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo (diaspora in particular), Ms Brenda Thoka, Prof Lesibana Rafapa
African-American literature	Mr Mzukisi Lento
African women’s writing	Prof Deirdre Byrne, Ms Rizwana Latha, Ms Thuli Shandu (diaspora in particular), Ms Brenda Thoka
AIDS/HIV and literature	Dr Felicity Horne
American literature	Prof Deirdre Byrne, Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto
Autobiography (self-writing)	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Black Atlantic Studies and Revisionist Migrant Cultural transnationalism in the wake of Globalization	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Children’s literature	Prof David Levey, Dr Eileen Donaldson
Christianity / Religion and literature	Prof David Levey, Ms Thuli Shandu (fiction in particular), Prof Lesibana Rafapa
Comparative literature (English-French)	Dr Allyson Kreuiter
Creative writing	Prof Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo, Prof Lesibana Rafapa
Cultural studies	Prof Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo, Prof Lesibana Rafapa
Development education	Dr Bernard Nchindila
Diaspora and literary-historical study of representations of genocide in African literature	Prof Maurice Vambe
Discourse analysis	Mr Clifford Ndlangamandla, Mr Tebogo Kekana
Eighteenth-century literature	Prof Michael Williams
Embodied memory	Prof Jessica Murray
English as medium of instruction in multilingual societies	Dr Bernard Nchindila, Mr Tebogo Kekana, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Dr Pinky Makoe
English language studies	Ms Ruth Scheepers, Dr Felicity Horne, Mr David Proctor, Mr Clifford Ndlangamandla, Ms Thuli Shandu, Mr Jack Chokwe (ESP in particular), Mr Tebogo Kekana, Ms Brenda Thoka
English language teacher education	Dr Bernard Nchindila, Mr Clifford Ndlangamandla, Ms Thuli Shandu, Prof Mirriam Lephalala
English in education/ English teaching	Dr Felicity Horne, Ms Stella Prozesky, Ms Rizwana Latha, Dr Blandina Makina, Ms Princess Bembe, Ms Ruth Scheepers, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Dr Bernard Nchindila, Ms Thuli Shandu, Mr Tebogo Kekana, Dr Pinky Makoe
Environmental issues in literature, ancient and modern	Dr Sira Dambe
Feminist theory	Prof Jessica Murray
Film, media	Dr Greg Graham-Smith, Dr Felicity Horne
Gender and HIV / and migration / and language impact	Ms Nomsa Zindela
Gender studies and women’s writing	Prof Deirdre Byrne, Dr Greg Graham-Smith, Ms Princess Bembe, Prof Jessica Murray, Dr Sope Maithufi, Dr Eileen Donaldson, Dr Allyson Kreuiter
Gothic fiction	Dr Allyson Kreuiter
Harlem Renaissance	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Historiography and literary history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Natal; iconography and representation of the Irish wolfhound in text and visual media, c. 1750-present	Dr Julie Pridmore
Language and power	Mr Tebogo Kekana
Language Ideologies and Power	Dr Pinky Makoe
Language, Literacies and Identity	Dr Pinky Makoe
Language Socialisation	Dr Pinky Makoe
Literacies in general	Mr Tebogo Kekana
Literacy in ESL	Dr Bernard Nchindila, Mr Tebogo Kekana, Prof Mirriam Lephalala
Literature and language	Ms Thuli Shandu
Literature/language instruction	Ms Nomsa Zindela
Literary Representations of Terrorism & Racial Profiling in Popular Culture	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Literary theory	Prof Deirdre Byrne,  Dr Greg Graham-Smith, Mr Marinus van Niekerk, Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Modernism	Dr Allyson Kreuiter
Multilingualism	Mr Clifford Ndlangamandla
Nineteenth-century writing	Ms Stella Prozesky, Dr Felicity Horne
Old English and Middle English/ Medieval studies	Prof David Levey, Dr Felicity Horne
Online learning (and mobile learning)	Dr Bernard Nchindila
Narratives of slavery, ancient and modern	Dr Sira Dambe
Neoplatonism in Renaissance poetry	Dr Sira Dambe
Onomastics	Ms Nomsa Zindela, Mr Tebogo Kekana
Poetry	Prof Deirdre Byrne,  Dr Sira Dambe, Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto, Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Popular culture	Prof Deirdre Byrne, Dr Greg Graham-Smith, Dr Sope Maithufi, Ms Jeanne-Marie Viljoen,  Dr Eileen Donaldson, Ms Brenda Thoka
Postcolonialism	Prof Fetson Kalua, Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto, Dr Sope Maithufi,  Prof Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo, Prof Lesibana Rafapa
Programme evaluation	Ms Nomsa Zindela, Mr Tebogo Kekana
Promoting accuracy in written English for the work environment	Mr David Proctor
Queer theory	Prof Jessica Murray, Dr Greg Graham-Smith
Reading and writing skills (education)	Ms Nomsa Zindela, Prof Mirriam Lephalala
Reception of classical texts and concepts in English literature	Dr Sira Dambe
Renaissance writing	Prof Michael Williams,  Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Representations of violence in South African literature	Prof Jessica Murray
Romantics	Prof Michael Williams
Science fiction	Prof Deirdre Byrne, Prof David Levey, Dr Eileen Donaldson. Ms Brenda Thoka
Sociolinguistics	Ms Thuli Shandu, Prof Mirriam Lephalala
South African literature	Prof David Levey, Dr Sope Maithufi, Mr Mzukisi Lento (1950s and 1960s especially), Prof Kgomotso Masemola (autobiography and fiction), Prof Lesibana Rafapa (migration in particular; folklore in written texts; post-apartheid fiction)
Systemic functional linguistics	Mr Clifford Ndlangamandla
TEFL	Dr Bernard Nchindila, Prof Mirriam Lephalala
TESOL	Prof Brenda Spencer, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Mr Bernard Nchindila, Ms Thuli Shandu, Mr Jack Chokwe, Ms Brenda Thoka
(Trans)cultural memory	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Trauma and testimony	Prof Jessica Murray
Twentieth century literature	Prof Deirdre Byrne
Victorian literature	Ms Stella Prozesky, Dr Felicity Horne, Dr Allyson Kreuiter (fiction especially)

Peter Abrahams	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Chinua Achebe	Dr Bernard Nchindila, Mr Jack Chokwe
Ayi Kwei Armah	Prof Maurice Vambe
D Atkinson	Ms Thuli Shandu
Jane Austen	Prof Michael Williams
Mariama Bâ	Ms Rizwana Latha, Ms Brenda Thoka
William Blake	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Charlotte Bronte	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Lord Byron	Prof Michael Williams
Judith Butler	Dr Greg Graham-Smith
Geoffrey Chaucer	Prof David Levey
J M Coetzee	Dr Sira Dambe
Tsitsi Dangarembga	Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto, Prof Mirriam Lephalala
Gilles Deluze	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
John Donne	Dr Sira Dambe
Unity Dow	Prof Mirriam Lephalala
Drum writers	Prof Lesibana Rafapa
Sello K. Duiker	Prof Lesibana Rafapa
John Eppel	Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto
Bessie Head	Prof Lesibana Rafapa, Prof Mirriam Lephalala
J Hedgcock	Ms Thuli Shandu
Robert Herrick	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Langston Hughes	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Ken Hyland	Mr Jack Chokwe
John Keats	Dr Sira Dambe
Kojo Laira	Ms Brenda Thoka
William Langland	Prof David Levey
D Larsen-Freeman	Ms Thuli Shandu
Marquis de Sade	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Mary Lea and Brian Street	Mr Jack Chokwe
Ursula K. Le Guin	Prof Deirdre Byrne
Theresa Lillis	Mr Jack Chokwe
Thomas Malory	Prof David Levey
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Ms Brenda Thoka
Andrew Marvell	Dr Sira Dambe
Niq Mhlongo	Mr Tebogo Kekana
Es’kia Mphahlele	Prof Lesibana Rafapa, Prof Kgomotso Masemola
John Milton	Dr Sira Dambe, Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Bloke Modisane	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Kgebeti Moele	Mr Tebogo Kekana, Prof Lesibana Rafapa
Phaswane Mpe	Mr Tebogo Kekana , Prof Lesibana Rafapa
Toni Morrison	Dr Sira Dambe, Ms Thuli Shandu, Ms Brenda Thoka
Iris Murdoch	Ms Stella Prozesky
Zakes Mda	Prof Lesibana Rafapa
Njabulo Ndebele	Dr Sope Maithufi
Ngugi wa Thiong’o	Dr Bernard Nchindila, Mr Jack Chokwe
Ben Okri	Ms Brenda Thoka, Prof Mirriam Lephalala
Alan Paton	Prof David Levey
Ousmane Sembene	Ms Brenda Thoka
William Shakespeare	Prof Michael Williams, Dr Greg Graham-Smith,  Dr Sira Dambe,  Mr Marinus van Niekerk
M Swain	Ms Thuli Shandu
Anthony Trollope	Dr Felicity Horne
Marie Beatrice Umutesi	Prof Maurice Vambe
L van Lier	Ms Thuli Shandu
Yvonne Vera	Prof Maurice Vambe
Patrick White	Dr Greg Graham-Smith
Oscar Wilde	Prof Kgomotso Masemola
Virginia Woolf	Dr Greg Graham-Smith
Richard Wright	Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto