Introduction:  Critical Plant Studies

Wendy  Woodward; Erika Lemmer

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Wendy Woodward University of the Western Cape
Erika Lemmer University of South Africa

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Author Biographies

Wendy Woodward, University of the Western Cape

Wendy Woodward is Professor Emerita in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape. She is author of The Animal Gaze: Animal Subjectivities in southern African Narratives (2008) and co-editor, with Erika Lemmer, of a Special Issue of Journal of Literary Studies on Figuring the Animal in Post-apartheid South Africa (2014). She is co-editor, with Susan McHugh, of Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges and the Arts (2017). She has published three volumes of poetry: Séance for the Body (1994), Love Hades and Other Animals (2008) and A Saving Bannister (2015).

Erika Lemmer, University of South Africa

Dr. Erika Lemmer is Head of the Section Afrikaans Literature in the Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She is particularly interested in the interface of literature and other epistemologies such as ecology, science, history and law. She completed her doctoral thesis on natural history in the novels of Ingrid Winterbach and regularly participates in colloquia with an ecocritical slant. She has published on plant politics in texts by the Afrikaans author, Jeanne Goosen.

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Introduction: Critical Plant Studies

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Wendy Woodward, University of the Western Cape

Erika Lemmer, University of South Africa

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