Notes on Contributors

Louise Bethlehem is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Tel Aviv University, where she obtained her doctorate on South African literary historiography under apartheid. Her research interests in postcolonial theory reflect the spatial, political, and gendered dimensions of her own displacements and migrations. A former Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she currently teaches critical theory, South African and Victorian literature there.

Jonathan Crewe is professor of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College and directs its Leslie Humanities Center. He has published three books and numerous articles on early modern literature and its cultural legacies.

Leon de Kock is associate professor of English at the University of South Africa. He is the author of Civilising Barbarians: Missionary Narrative and African Textual Response in Nineteenth-Century South Africa (1996) and Bloodsong: Poems (1997). His translation of Marlene van Niekerk’s prize-winning Afrikaans novel, Triomf, was published in South Africa and in England in separate editions in 1999 and was awarded the inaugural South African Translators Institute award for outstanding translation in 2000. He has published many scholarly articles on South African literary culture, including postcoloniality.

Dirk Klopper lectures in the Department of English at Rand Afrikaans University. His research interests include theory, romantic aesthetics, and South African poetry. He has published widely on the last in various South African journals. He is the editor of Anatomy of Dark: Collected Poems of Arthur Nortje (2000) and coauthor of the forthcoming A Concise Dictionary of South African Literature.

Loren Kruger is professor of English, comparative literature, and African and African American studies at the University of Chicago and the author of The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants, and Publics, since 1910 (1999). Her research interests include new media, visual culture, and theater in South Africa and theater and performance culture, past and present, in Europe and the Americas.

Sonja Laden lectures in the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. She is completing her Ph.D. dissertation on “Consumer Magazines and the Emergence of a Black Middle-Class in South Africa” and has researched the writing practice of new historicism. She has published a number of articles in both of these areas.

Simon Lewis, assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston, teaches African and postcolonial literature. Most of his scholarly work focuses on the representation of landscape in African colonial and postcolonial writing, and he has published articles on Nadine Gordimer, Moyez Vassanji, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olive Schreiner, and Karen Blixen. He is also editor of the little literary magazine Illuminations, a number of issues of which have been devoted to South and southern African poetry.

Peter Merrington teaches nineteenth-century literature, British modernism, and creative writing in the English department at the University of the Western Cape. He has published articles on topics in Edwardian colonial and imperial cultural studies in Theatre Journal, Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Literary Studies, and elsewhere as well as short stories in New Contrast and New Letters. Presently he is preparing a book-length study of the performance genre of “new pageantry.”

Pippa Skotnes is professor of fine art and director of the Michaelis School of Fine Art and the Museum Workshop at the University of Cape Town. Her interests include book arts and the creative curation of exhibitions. Her research has focused on southern African rock art and the Bleek and Lloyd archive of /Xam oral lore.

Patricia Watson Shariff lectures in the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research interests include popular media and development; gender studies; information technologies and literacy studies; language policy, curriculum, and materials development.

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