Articles
Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the
Inequality of Print Culture. English Academy Review (with Stefan Helgesson), English Academy Review (2010)
Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth
Commission, (with Mark Sanders), English Academy Review (2009)
Narrating Our Healing:
Perspectives on Working Through Trauma (with Chris van der Merwe and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela), English Academy Review (2009)
Remembering to Forget: Monumental vs. Peripatetic Archiving in Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies (2008)
This text deletes itself’: Traumatic Memory and Space-Time in Wicomb’s David’s Story, Studies in the Novel 40.1-2 (2008)
Contributions to Books
“I had Forgotten a Continent’: Cosmopolitan Memory in Derek Walcott’s Omeros, In Traversing
Transnationalism: The Horizons of Literary and Cultural Studies (2011)
Mapping Memory, Healing the Land: The Bells of Amersfoort, Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on
Zakes Mda (2009)
Entries on “Olaudah Equiano”; “Marcus Garvey”; “Negritude”; “Pan-Africanism”; “Gil Scott-Heron”;
“Slavery”; and “Nat Turner, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature (2005)
Apartheid Prison Narratives, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Construction of
National (Traumatic) Memory, In Colonial and Post-Colonial Incarceration (2001)
Presentations
Cultural Exchange in the Black Atlantic: The Late Work of Langston Hughes, Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (2011)
Cosmopolis Built by Slaves: Slavery, Langston Hughes, and Jacques Roumain, American Comparative Literature Association (2010)
Johannesburg in Literature: Cosmopolis or Xenophobic Citadel?, American Comparative Literature Association (2009)
Memories of Empire: The Empire Exhibition in Andrea Levy’s Small Island and Hari Kunzru’s The
Impressionist, Modern Language Association (2008)
“‘I had forgotten a continent’: Displaced Memory and the Caribbean in Walcott’s Arkansas Testament
and Omeros, Modern Language Association (2007)
Other
Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence (with John Walters), Utah State University Faculty Monographs (2010)
South African Literature After the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss, Utah State University Faculty Monographs (2009)
In the wake of apartheid, South African culture conveys the sense of being lost in...