Senior Lecturer
MA, cum laude (Wits), PhD (UCT)
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TEACHING AREAS
African and Black Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
RESEARCH AREAS
Critical Race Studies, Material and Expressive Cultures, Literatures of the Revolution, Anticolonial Social Movements, Black Geographies and Ecologies.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility. James Currey: Boydell & Brewer/Wits University Press. 2024
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847012777/keorapetse-kgositsile-and-the-black-arts-movement/
Mine Mine Mine. African Poetry Book Fund. University of Nebraska Press. 2023
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496235152/
The Collected Poetry of Keorapetse Kgositsile [Ed Phalafala, U & De Villiers, P]. Nebraska University Press. 2023
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496221155/
Repatriation and Republication of Malibongwe: Poems From The Struggle By ANC Women (uHlanga, 2020), with new preface by Uhuru Phalafala, through the project ‘Recovering Subterranean Archives’ of which I am Principal Investigator.
Articles, Essays, & Chapters
‘Erotics of Revolution: Mongane Serote and the Black Cosmological Archive’. Literature and the Work of Universality [Ed. Helgesson, Stefan & Kullberg, Christina]. 2024.
‘Writing Body as Land & Land as Body in Mine Mine Mine’. The Creative Arts: On Practice, Making & Meaning [Murray, Sally Ann & Betty, Michele]. Dryad Press, 2024.
‘Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Erotics of Black World Archives’. The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature [Ed. Ojaide, Tanure & Losambe, Lokangaka], 2024.
Phalafala, UP; Strauss, H. ‘Rebirth | Revolt | Resurrect’, on Mine Mine Mine. 2024. Studies in Social Justice, 2024.
Phalafala, UP; Strauss, H. ‘‘The Most Hidden Open Secret’: an interview with Uhuru Phalafala on Mine Mine Mine’. Agenda, 2023
‘Decolonizing World Literature Through Orality’. Handbook of Anglophone World Literature. Helgesson, S; Neumann, B; Rippl, G (Eds.). Germany: De Gruyter, 2020.
‘The Matriarchive as Life Knowledge in Es’kia Mphahlele’s African Humanism’. a/b Auto/Biography Studies. Vol. 35, No. 3, pp 729-747, 2020
‘Polyglot Internationalism and the Matriarchive: The Case of Keorapetse Kgositsile’. Interventions, Vol. 22.3, pp 346-363, 2020
‘Of Worlds Black and Red: South Africa’s poet laureates and their world-making networks’. Research in African Literature. Vol. 49, No 3, pp 116-135, 2019
‘My Name is Afrika: Keorapetse Kgositsile in the ‘Black World’’. Moving Spaces: The Creole and Cosmopolitan in Africa, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Rosa, F; Berthet, M; Viljoen, S (Eds.). Netherlands: Brill, 2019.
‘Home is where the Music is: an interview with Keorapetse Kgositsile’. Journal of the African Literature Association. Vol. 11.2, pp 246-253, 2017
‘Black Music and Pan-African Solidarity in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Poetry’. Safundi. Vol. 18, pp 1-20, 2017
‘Setswana Roots en Route in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Poetry’. English Studies in Africa. Vol. 60, pp 60-78, 2017
‘Time is Always NOW: animism in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s temporal order’. Scrutiny2. Vol. 22.2, pp 33-48, 2017
‘Polyglot Internationalism and the Matriarchive: The Case of Keorapetse Kgositsile’. Interventions, Vol. 22.3, pp 346-363, 2020
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
‘A Song of Constant Beginnings’ – Mail & Guardian
https://mg.co.za/article/2018-01-12-00-a-song-of-constant-beginnings/
‘Exiles from the Future’ – Arts24
https://www.news24.com/arts/literature/op-ed-exiles-from-the-future-20200813
‘Keorapetse Kgositsile was a Feminist’ – Africa is a Country
https://africasacountry.com/2018/03/keorapetse-kgositsile-was-a-feminist
‘Festac, the ANC and the Arts’ – Mail & Guardian
https://mg.co.za/friday/2020-05-28-festac-the-anc-and-the-arts/
‘How Women’s Untold Histories Shaped South Africa’s National Poet’
https://theconversation.com/how-womens-untold-histories-shaped-south-africas-national-poet-137265
‘HOME IS WHERE THE MUSIC IS’ (SONIC DOCUMENTARY):
https://chimurengachronic.co.za/book_series/chimurenganyana-home-is-where-the-music-is-by-uhuru-phalafala-september-2021/
RESEARCH SEMINARS, PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
Advisory Board member: Imbiza Journal for African Writing (Chairperson)
Co-Editor (with Louise Bethlehem, Stefan Helgesson, Lindelwa Dalamba, Gul Han): Safundi Special Issue on “Cultural Solidarities: Apartheid and itineraries of expressive culture”, Vol. 1 (2018); Vol. 2 (2019).
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