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
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
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Life & Times of Michael K” in The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee, Lucy Graham and Andrew van der Vlies (eds.) (forthcoming 2023)
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/