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)
 

‘I Was Those Thousands!’: Memory, Identity and Space in John Kani’s Nothing But the Truth, Theatre Research International (2007)
 

Memory, Memorialization, and the Transformation of Johannesburg: Ivan Vladislavić’s Propaganda by Monuments and The Restless Supermarket, MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (2007)
 

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)
 

Private Trauma, Public Drama: Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona’s The Island and Maponya’s Gangsters, English Studies in Africa (2005)
 

Re/reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead After 9/11, English Studies in Africa (2005)
 

Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa (with Paul Gready), 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)
 

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)
 

Entries on “South African Literature,” “Comprador,” and “African Language (Zulu) Literature, Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (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)
 

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

The Truth Commission and the Talking Cure in Post-Apartheid South Africa, African Studies Association (2007)
 

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

Traumatic Memory and Space-Time in Wicomb’s David’s Story and Mda’s The Heart of Redness, Modern Language Association (2006)
 

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

Towards a Spatial-Materialist Reading of South African Fiction, Wits U (2005)
 

Rereading Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead After 9/11, Wits U (2004)
 

Something go off pop in yuh head’: Coming of Age and Nationalism in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin, University of Louisville (2004)
 

“Inside South Africa's Prisons: Struggles Over the Written Word in Apartheid Prison Writing, American Library Association (2003)
 

Rotten English’ -- Nigerian Pidgin in Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy and Soyinka’s From Zia With Love, American Library Association (1998)
 

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...