Articles

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)
 

Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi (with Lindy Stiebel), ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (2007)
 

The Drum Decade: Stories from the 1950s, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (2007)
 

Africa Talks Back: Interviews with Anglophone African Authors, African Literature Association Bulletin (2006)
 

Layers of Permanence: Toward a Spatial-Materialist Reading of Ivan Vladislavić’s The Exploded View, Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa (2006)
 

Preparing Ourselves for Ambiguity (with Albie Sachs), Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa (2006)
 

Albie Sachs, Indres Naidoo, and the South African Prison Memoir, Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa (2005)
 

Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid. (with Mark Sanders), Africa Today (2005)
 

The Truth Commission and Post-Apartheid Literature in South Africa, Research in African Literatures (2003)
 

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)
 

Introduction, Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Correspondence (2010)
 

Mapping Memory, Healing the Land: The Bells of Amersfoort, Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda (2009)
 

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)
 

Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation, Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (2007)
 

Excavating the Apartheid City: Aziz Hassim’s The Lotus People, African Literature Association (2006)
 

Mapping Memory, Healing the Land: Zakes Mda’s The Bells of Amersfoort, English Academy of Southern Africa (2005)
 

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...