Research Interests

Twentieth-century literature, Sylvia Plath, modernism, postmodernism, film theory, cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare (in particular those from the Global South).

Publications in Accredited Journals

‘This is Not the Film: Narrative Frustration, Indeterminacy, and Silence in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive’, English Studies in Africa, 61(1):60-69. 2018.
 
‘That Gallop Was Practice’: A Horse Ride as Practice Run for Things to Come in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Whiteness I Remember’ and Ted Hughes’s ‘Sam’, English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, 30:2, 6-20. 2013.

Conference Papers

‘Labouring Towards an “Edge”: Motherhood, Speech and Silence at the End of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Voice’. This paper was presented on 11 March 2022 at the ‘Sylvia Plath Across the Century’ international online conference, which was hosted by the Sylvia Plath Society, and ran from 11 March to 12 March 2022.

‘Dying as an Art: Performing Suffering, Suffering the Performance of Death in Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”’. This paper was presented on 11 November 2017 at the ‘Sylvia Plath: Letters, Words and Fragments’ international conference, which was hosted by Ulster University, and ran from 10 November to 11 November 2017.

‘This is Not the Film: Narrative Frustration, Indeterminacy, and Silence in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive’. This paper was presented on 29 August 2016 at the ‘Time’ international conference, which was hosted by the University of South Africa, and ran from 28 August to 1 September 2016.

‘“These Super-People”: The Superimposition of Ted Hughes’s “Brasilia” on Sylvia Plath’s “Brasilia”’. This paper was presented on 26 October 2012 at the International Sylvia Plath Symposium 2012, which was hosted by the University of Indiana, and ran from 24 October to 27 October 2012.

Editing

Editorial Assistant at the English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies (2014 – 2018).

Teaching

University of Tübingen, English Department

Seminar: ‘Exemplary Dissent: An Introduction to Global Modernisms’ (2023 Summer term).

University of Pretoria, English Department

Various courses (as part of a lecturing team) at undergraduate level — ‘Introduction to Literature in English’; ‘Introduction to Literary Studies’; ‘20th Century, Postmodern and Postcolonial Literature’; ‘Modernism’ — and at postgraduate level — ‘Poetics and Literary Theory’; ‘Postmodernism and Postcolonialism’ (2010 – present).