Dr Daniel Roux

Senior Lecturer
MA (Wits), PhD (UCT)
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RESEARCH AREAS

Prison writing; South African life writing and journalism; postcolonial theory; psychoanalytic and Marxist literary theory; Renaissance literature and culture

TEACHING AREAS

Renaissance literature; theory of literature; South African autobiographical writing; gender and media; popular culture; American literary studies

PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED ACCREDITED PUBLICATIONS
  • Roux, Daniel. “Uncanny Times: The Case of Eugene de Kock”. English Studies in Africa 67(1), 2024.
  • ——-. “Bosman’s Cold Stone Jug and the Genesis of the South African Prison Memoir”. English in Africa 50(1), 2023.
  • ——-. “Writing Robben Island”. In Michelle Kelly and Claire Westall (eds) Imprisonment, Institutionality, and the Literary World. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series. London: Routledge, 2020.
  • ——-. “Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary and Prison Writing from Africa”. African Studies Review 63 (2), 2020.
  • Gordon, Colette, Daniel Roux and David Schalkwyk. “Shakespeare’s Tragedies in South Africa”. In David Schalkwyk (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, 2016.
  • Roux, Daniel. “Shakespeare and Tragedy in South Africa: From Black Hamletto A Dream Deferred”. Shakespeare in Southern Africa 27, 2015.
  • ——-. “Inside/Outside: Representing the Prison after Apartheid”. Life Writing11(2), 2014.
  • ——-. “Reading Hamlet’s Dreamsas Theory (Roundtable discussion). Safundi 15(1), 2014.
  • ——-.“Mandela Writing/Writing Mandela”. In The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela. Ed. Rita Barnard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • ——-. “Writing the prison”. In The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Ed. David Attwell and Derek Attridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • ——-. “Jonny Steinberg’s The Number and prison life-writing in post-apartheid South Africa.” Social Dynamics 35(2), 2009.
  • ——-. “Hybridity, Othello and the postcolonial critics.” Shakespeare in Southern Africa21(1), 2009.
  • ——-. “‘I speak to you and I listen to the voice coming back’: recording solitary confinement in the apartheid prison.” English Academy Review22(1), 2006.
  • ——-. “Aphanisis of/as the subject: from Christopher Marlowe to Ruth First”.Shakespeare in Southern Africa 17(1), 2005.
  • ——-. “A post-apartheid canon?” Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies9(2), 2000.
  • ——-. “‘Well may I view her, but she sees not me’: the subject and the invisible in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage”.South African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 9(1), 1999.
SELECTED NON-ACCREDITED PUBLICATIONS

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION

The titles of the theses and dissertations below should give some indication of the kind of work I am able to supervise.

  • Amid, Jonathan. Where Art Meets Life in Secret: Excavating Subjects in Selected Works of Michael Ondaatje. MA thesis, awarded with distinction 2009.
  • Barlow, Jenna. Women’s Historical Fiction ‘after’ Feminism: Discursive Reconstructions of the Tudors in Contemporary Literature. PhD, awarded 2013.
  • Cox, Alexia. The Application and Modification of Human Resource Management in the Critical Analysis of Fiction:Harry Potter as Case Study. PhD, awarded 2016.
  • De Villiers, Sarah Rose. A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Human Migration in the Cape: a text marrying written and visual narratives. MA, awarded with distinction, 2021.
  • Du Preez, Gerhardus. Chaucer’s Food Basket: The Sexual, Cultural and Environmental Life of Food in Medieval Literature. MA thesis, awarded 2016.
  • Gray van Heerden, Chantelle. Praxis and/as Critique in the translations of the oeuvre of Ingrid Winterbach. PhD joint supervision with Prof. Tina Steiner, awarded 2014.
  • Kiguru, Wanjiru Doseline. (Re)construction of African Histories through International Literary Prizes. PhD joint supervision with Dr Tilla Slabbert, awarded 2016.
  • Le Roux, Selene. Poetry of Revolution: Poetic Representation of Political Conflict and Transition in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Marvell’s Cromwellian Poems. MA mini-thesis, awarded 2007.
  • Ndlovu, Isaac. An Examination of Prison, Criminality and Power in Selected Contemporary Kenyan and South African Narratives. PhD, awarded 2010.
  • Okolie, Mary Nwakaego. Historicising Borders: Studies in Nigerian Novels. PhD joint supervision with Dr Megan Jones, awarded 2019.
  • Patterson, Rebecca. From apartheid to the Rainbow Nation and beyond: The representation of childhood and youth in South African coming-of-age narratives. MA thesis, awarded distinction, 2017.
  • Rosochaki, Elke. Ethics inAnil’s Ghost. MA thesis, awarded with distinction 2006.
  • Steenkamp, Elzette. Borrowing Identities: Autonomy and Anxieties in Three Post-Colonial Texts. MA thesis, awarded with distinction 2008.
  • Steenkamp, Janka. Myth, Symbol and Reality in David Eddings’Belgariad and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter. MA thesis, awarded 2009.
  • Swanepoel, Jan-Hendrik. Global and Local Identity: Screening Society in the Medical Drama Series. MA thesis, awarded 2012.
  • Van der Merwe, Nic. Scarred Bodies: Wounds, Ritual Scarring and Self-Mutilation in Selected Texts. MA thesis, awarded with distinction 2015.
  • Van Dyk, Joha. Diamonds are Forever. MA thesis, awarded with distinction, 2021.
  • Van Heerden, Deon. The apartheid prison and the making of the myth of Mandela. Full MA thesis, awarded 2012.
  • Van Wyk, Juanita Juliet. The Body has a Mind of its Own: Investigating the Mind/Body Dialectic in Three 18th Century Novels. Full MA thesis, awarded 2017.
  • Were, Marciana Nafula. Negotiating Public and Private Identities: A study of Autobiographies of African Women Politicians. PhD joint supervison with Dr Mathilda Slabbert, awarded 2019.
  • Weyer, Christine. Being a Woman-Poet: Contesting Identities in the Work of Joan Metelerkamp. Full MA thesis, awarded with distinction 2007.

PRIZES, AWARDS, POSITIONS

  • 2018-present: Editorial Board member, English in Africa.
  • 2015: Rector’s award for general performance (Stellenbosch). Rector’s awards discontinued in 2015.
  • 2014: Rector’s award for general performance (Stellenbosch).
  • 2011: Rector’s award for general performance (Stellenbosch).
  • 2011: Nominee: Golden Key award for best lecturer in the Arts Faculty (Stellenbosch).
  • 2010: Rector’s award for excellence in teaching (Stellenbosch).
  • 2006: Nominee: Golden Key award for best lecturer in the Arts Faculty (Stellenbosch).
  • 2002: Research Associate in the Department of English, University of Cape Town.
  • 2001: Research Associate in the Department of English, University of Cape Town.

UBUNTU LEARNING COMMUNITY (ULC)

I am a lecturer in the Ubuntu Learning Community (ULC), which offers weekly workshop sessions at the Brandvlei Correctional Facility. The ULC initiative is the result of a social impact partnership between SU and the Department of Correctional Services. It is administered by Dr Mary Nel in the Law Faculty and I have been involved in the project since the planning phase in 2018. The 14-week course brings together about 30 SU students and inmates from Brandvlei Prison for three-hour classes once a week at the prison, and aims to promote social justice and rehumanise learning through collaboration, community-building and connectedness. This course has now been registered by the university as a short course .