Publications

Monographs

Journal articles

‘Alzheimer’s, Memory, Prosthesis: Rachel Heng’s “The Rememberers” and Naoko Nobutomo’s I Go Gaga, My Dear’ (Commissioned for Literary Research 2026)

‘When I hear “short stories”, I break out in cold sweats.’: MFAs and the South African Literary Market (Commissioned for Interventions 2027)

‘World, Self, Environment: Ecocritical Affordances in Yves Bonnefoy and Michel Henry’, Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies, 9.1 (2026), pp. 1-14

‘Opaque Poetics in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper’, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 62.4 (2021), pp. 404–413

‘Henrietta Rose-Innes and the Politics of Space’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55.1 (2020), pp. 22–37

‘“Concrete Fragments”: Interview with Henrietta Rose-Innes’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55.1 (2020), pp. 111–120

‘The Late Nadine Gordimer’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 42.6 (2016), pp. 1077–1094

Awarded the Terence Ranger Prize for the best article by an early career author

‘Sticking Together: Ivan Vladislavić’s Collage Practice’, Safundi, 16.1 (2015), pp. 78–95

Book Chapters

‘Phaswane Mpe’s Lyrical Brooding’, Critical Perspectives on K. Sello Duiker, Phaswane Mpe, Yvonne Vera and Dambudzo Marechera (Commissioned for London: Bloomsbury 2028)

‘Modernism and Music in South Africa’, South African Modernism (In Press Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026)

‘J.M. Coetzee and the Work of Music’, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 407–414

‘Myth, Orality, and the African Novel’, Cambridge Critical Concepts: Magical Realism and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 148–163

‘Ways of Staying, Ways of Saying: From Black Writing in Britain to Black British Writing’, The 1960s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction, ed. by James Riley, Melanie Seddon, Phil Tew (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 137–164