Editorial Team
Editor
Prof. Reinhardt Fourie, University of South Africa, fourir@unisa.ac.za: Comparative literature; Afrikaans literature; (South African) English literature; postcolonialism; literary theory
Associate Editor/Assistentredakteur
Prof. Alan Northover, University of South Africa, northra@unisa.ac.za: Animal studies, ecocriticism, J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood
Prof. Wayne Stables, University of South Africa, stablw@unisa.ac.za: 19th- and 20th-century literature; Continental philosophy; Literary criticism and theory (especially deconstruction and psychoanalysis); Political theory (including Marx and Benjamin); History and theory of the novel; Literature and visual culture
International
Prof. Yaw Asante, Mount Royal University, Canada, yasante@mtroyal.ca: Postcolonial literature; Ghanian literature
Prof. Ortwin De Graef, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), ortwin.degraef@kuleuven.be: Ethics; post-hermeneutics; English literature; trauma theory; poststructuralism; literary theory in general
Dr Nicole Devarenne, University of Dundee, n.devarenne@dundee.ac.uk: South African English literature
Prof. Thomas Jay Lynn, Penn State Berks, USA, TJL7@psu.edu: Postcolonial, world, and ancient literature, West African literature
Prof. Jane Poyner, University of Exeter, J.Poyner@exeter.ac.uk: Postcolonialism, the work of J.M. Coetzee
Prof. Yves T'Sjoen, Ghent University, yves.tsjoen@ugent.be: Dutch literature; Comparative literature (Dutch/Afrikaans)
Prof. Margriet Van der Waal, University of Amsterdam/University of Groningen, m.c.vanderwaal@uva.nl: Post-apartheid South African (Afrikaans) literature; post-national identity politics
Prof. Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu, Bogazici University, Istanbul, ozlemogu@boun.edu.tr: English and comparative literature; film studies
Prof. Helen Atawuve, Yitah, University of Ghana, hyitah@ug.edu.gh: New Literatures in English, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, The Short Story, Practice in Criticism, Literary Theory, American Literature and Research Methods
South African
Prof. Imraan Coovadia, University of Cape Town, imraan.coovadia@uct.ac.za: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English and American literature, philosophy, and literature; political and social thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Adam Smith, Hazlitt, Hume, Edmund Burke, and Swift; and contemporary fiction
Dr Minesh Dass, University of Johannesburg, mdass@uj.ac.za: South African English literature; Derrida
Prof. Chantelle Gray, University of Johannesburg, cgray@uj.ac.za: Deleuze and Guattari; anarchism; gender and sexuality studies
Prof. Desiree Lewis, University of the Western Cape, dlewis@uwc.ac.za: Literary and popular culture, global feminist knowledge and politics, the politics of visuality and representation and postcolonial writing and culture
Prof. Mbongeni Malaba, University of KwaZulu-Natal, mbongenimalaba@yahoo.co.uk: Namibian poetry written in English, Shakan literature, the work of Charles Mungoshi, Alan Paton and Thomas Mofolo, Zimbabwean literature
Prof. Michael Marais, Rhodes University, m.marais@ru.ac.za: Comparative literature, modernism, postmodernism, critical theory
Prof. Jabulani Mkhize, University of Fort Hare, jmkhize@ufh.ac.za: African and South African literature
Prof. Sikhumbuzo Mngadi, University of Johannesburg, smngadi@uj.ac.za: Literary and cultural theory, in particular, the work of Roman Jakobson, Mikhail Bhaktin, the Frankfurt School, and Stuart Hall
Prof. Robert Muponde, University of the Witwatersrand, robert.muponde@wits.ac.za: Childhood in literature; African literature
Prof. Sam Naidu, Rhodes University, s.naidu@ru.ac.za: South African/Postcolonial Crime Fiction; Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction; African Literature; Transnational Literature (Literature of the African, Latin American, and South Asian Diasporas); Postcolonial Feminist Literature; Oral/written interface in colonial South Africa; English transcriptions of Xhosa folktales; the publication and marketing of indigenous South African orature; Folklore and Ethnographic Writings of George McCall Theal; Emily Dickinson; and, Experimental Pedagogies, including the combination of Community Engagement and Literary Studies, as well as the use of yoga in tertiary education.
Dr Gibson Ncube, Stellenbosch University, gncube@sun.ac.za: French and Francophone Literature, African Literature, Queer and Gender Studies, Onomastics
Dr Naomi Nkealah, University of the Witwatersrand, naomi.nkealah@wits.ac.za: Feminism; West African literature; African literature
Prof. James Ogude, University of Pretoria, james.ogude@up.ac.za: African literature
Prof. Andries Oliphant, University of South Africa, oliphantandries4@gmail.com: South African literary studies; postcolonialism; literary theory; critical theory; genre studies
Prof. Corinne Sandwith, University of Pretoria, corinne.sandwith@up.ac.za: Postcolonialism (violence, crime, otherness, gender, sexuality, the body); Practices of reading
Prof. Helene Strauss, University of the Free State, strausshj@ufs.ac.za: South African literature
Prof. Hein Viljoen, North West University, hein.viljoen@nwu.ac.za: Afrikaans literary studies; Dutch literary studies; modern poetry; modern Dutch prose; literary theory; South African literary studies
Prof. Andries Visagie, Stellenbosch University, agvisagie@sun.ac.za: Afrikaans literature; Afrikaans poetry
Prof. Merle Williams, University of the Witwatersrand, merle.williams@wits.ac.za: Augustan poetry; Romantic, nineteenth-century and Modernist poetry and fiction; American literature; theories of literature and relations between literature and philosophy
Prof. Ina Wolfaardt-Gräbe, University of South Africa/SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, publikasie@akademie.co.za: Afrikaans literary studies; Afrikaans poetry; literary theory
Prof. Dan Wylie, Rhodes University, d.wylie@ru.ac.za: White writing on Shaka; African literature; Southern African poetry; twentieth-century prose and poetry; spirituality and poetry; and ecological issues in literature.
Prof. Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, sandra.young@uct.ac.za: Shakespeare; Archives studies; South African literature