eckards@sun.ac.za
TEL: +27 21 808 2043
TEACHING AREAS
Environmental Literature, Ecocriticism, (Southern) African Literature, Postcolonial & World Literatures, Critical Temporalities
RESEARCH AREAS
Environmental Humanities, (Southern) African Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Critical Temporalities
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Life & Times of Michael K.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee. Eds. Andrew van der Vlies & Lucy Valerie Graham. Bloomsbury, 2023.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather.” English Studies in Africa 66.1 (2023). 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2023.2128490
“From Apartheid to the Planetary Present: Breaching Time in Nadine Gordimer’s Something Out There.” Social Dynamics 48.2 (2022). 207-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2022.2085856
“The ‘baboon boy’ of the Eastern Cape and the making of the human in South Africa.” Social Dynamics 44.1 (2018). 146-157. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533952.2018.1430477
“J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and the Poetics of Resistance.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 52.1 (2017). 70-83. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021989415589832
“‘The Country of his Heart’: J.M. Coetzee, Wordsworth and the Karoo Farm.” English in Africa 42.2 (2015). 7-24. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/eia/article/view/122983
“J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Selfhood.” English in Africa 39.1 (2012). 21-36. https://journals.co.za/content/iseaeng/39/1/EJC125856
“Reading Through the Gates: Structure, Desire and Subjectivity in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth
Costello.” English in Africa 36.2 (2009). 63-77. https://journals.co.za/content/iseaeng/36/2/EJC47986
REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYS
“Short takes on disjointed times: literary form and social thought in Graham K. Riach’s The Short Story After Apartheid.” Safundi, Sept. 3, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2024.2375848
“Battling Ghosts From the Past and Building Walls: An Island by Karen Jennings.” Daily Maverick, Oct. 17, 2021. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-10-17-battling-ghosts-from-the-past-and-building-walls-an-island-by-karen-jennings/
CREATIVE WRITING
“Let The Worms Have It”, short story, Johannesburg Review of Books, Vol. 6, Issue 6 (December 20, 2022). https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/12/20/fiction-issue-read-let-the-worms-have-it-a-new-short-story-by-eckard-smuts/
“HomeTM”, short story, Johannesburg Review of Books, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (May 2, 2022). https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/05/02/new-short-fiction-home-by-eckard-smuts/