Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature
College of Human Sciences |
School of Arts |
Department: Afrikaans and Theory of Literature |
Professor
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Tel: |
012 429 6794
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E-mail: |
northra@unisa.ac.za
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Qualifications
- BA (Ed) (Wits)
- BA Hons (Wits)
- MA (Wits)
- PhD (UP) (JM Coetzee and animal rights: Elizabeth Costello’s challenge to philosophy)
Fields of academic interests
- The work of J.M. Coetzee
- Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction
- Animal studies (animal ethics), green studies, ecocriticism
- Prehistoric rock art
- General literary theory, critical theory and philosophy
Journal articles
- Schopenhauer and religion: Translating myth into metaphysics. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 78(2), a7788.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v78i2.7788
- Durkheim’s totemic principle, shamanism and Southern African San religions. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 77(2), a6709.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v77i2.6709
- 2020. Lucy’s Precarious Privilege in Fiona Snyckers’s Lacuna. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795344
- 2019. Animal Studies, Decoloniality and San Rock Art and Myth. Journal of Literary Studies, 35:3, 108-125, DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2019.1657286
- 2017. Strangers in Strange Worlds: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy. Journal of Literary Studies, 33:1, 121-137, DOI:10.1080/02564718.2017.1290384
- 2017. Interrogating the sacred art of Vetkat Regopstaan Boesman Kruiper. In Indigenous Knowledges, edited by Susan McHugh and Wendy Woodward. Palgrave-Macmillan.
- 2016. Ecological apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. Studia Neophilologica, Vol. 88, Issue 1, 81-95. DOI: 10.1080/00393274.2015.1096044.
Professional positions, fellowships & awards
- Editor of the Journal of Literary Studies
- Member of the Rock Art Research Institute (Wits)
- Member of the Archaeological Society of South Africa
- Member of the Coetzee Collective (UCT)
- Member of Acad-Myth (Essex)
- Member of Minding Animals International
Projects
- The GetOn Community Outreach Project