Prof E Donaldson

Qualifications

• DLitt (Pretoria) 

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Fields of academic interests

• Psychoanalytical reading of fantasy and science fiction
• Feminist science fiction and fantasy
• The hero in children’s literature

Field of Specialisation

• Feminist speculative fiction
• Children’s Literature
• Psychoanalytic literary analysis

Books

• 2011. Donaldson, E., Hayes, N. & van Niekerk, M. Exam Success: Romeo and Juliet. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
• 2011. Donaldson, E., Hayes, N & van Niekerk, M. 2011. Exam Success: Hamlet. Cape Town: Oxford University Press

Book chapters:

• ‘Earning the Right to Wear Midnight: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching’ in The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on stories from Grimm to Gaiman (145-164). 2014. Abbruscato, J. and Jones, T. (eds). USA: Macfarland.
• ‘Hail the Conquering Campbellian S/Hero: Joanna Russ’s Alyx’ in Practising Science Fiction: Critical essays on Reading, Writing and Teaching the Genre (154-167). 2010. Hellekson, K., Jacobsen, C., Sharp, P., and Yaszek, L. (eds.) USA: Macfarland.
• ‘Spellbinding Dahl: considering Roald Dahl’s fantasy’ in Change and Renewal in Children’s Literature (131-140). 2004. Van der Walt, T.B. (ed.) London: Praeger.

Journal articles

• Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master!” Childhood agency in Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Wee Free Men’ in Mousaion, October 2015: Vol 33 (2)
• A Contested Freedom: the fragile future of Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’ in English Academy Review, October 2014: Vol 31 (2), 94-107.
• Accessing the ‘Other Wind’: feminine time in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Series in English Academy Review, May 2013: Vol 30 (1), 39-51.
• Resetting the Clockocracy: time and memory in Joanna Russ’s ‘The Adventures of Alyx’ in Scrutiny II, Nov 2012: Vol 17 (2), 22-34.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• Emerging Researcher’s Support Programme 2015-2017
• Women’s Developing Researcher’s Award 2014