Talks and Presentations

• “The Invisible South in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.” Writing From the South, Stellenbosch University, 2024. (*workshop presentation)

• “Extractive Violence, Elemental Language and Decolonial Ecology in Ishmael Beah’s The Radiance of Tomorrow.” Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, 2024. (*workshop presentation)

• “Planetary Coetzee.” Dusklands 50, University of the Western Cape, Greatmore Humanities Campus, 2024. (conference presentation)

• “Extractive Violence and Elemental Language in Ishmael Beah’s The Radiance of Tomorrow.” Research Seminar, Stellenbosch University, 2024. (invited talk)

• “Animated terrain: From allegory to eco-materialism in Karen Jennings’s An Island.” EACLALS Triennal Conference, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2023. (conference presentation)

• “Narrative structure and the politics of temporality in Imraan Coovadia’s A Spy in Time.” Research Seminar, Stellenbosch University, 2023. (invited talk)

• “Deep time and the Anthropocene: Radioactive waste – a case study.” Anthropocene Workshop, Stellenbosch University, 2022. (*workshop session)

• “Literary baboons in South Africa: Remapping the social and the natural.” Mellon Emerging Scholars Workshop, University of the Western Cape, 2020. (*workshop session)

• “Reformulating the ecological subject in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh.” ACLA Conference, Georgetown University, 2019. (conference presentation)

• “Body, affect and social critique: J.M. Coetzee and sport.” Travelling with Coetzee: Other Arts, Other Languages Conference, Oxford University, 2017. (conference presentation)

• “The ‘baboon boy’ and the making of the human in South Africa.” The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa Conference, Yale University, 2016. (conference presentation)

• “‘Activities with no parallel in the rest of creation’: J.M. Coetzee and sport. Coetzee’s Other Arts Conference, University of the Western Cape, 2016. (conference presentation)

• “‘They have indeed become citizens of a large world’: Eugène Marais and the place of baboons.” AUETSA Conference, Rhodes University, 2015. (*conference presentation)

• “Eugène Marais and lowlife baboons.” Stellenbosch Dirt Colloquium, Stellenbosch University, 2015. (conference presentation)

• “Crossing over with J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus.” CrossCurrents: Current Research in the Humanities Conference, University of Cape Town, 2013. (*conference presentation)

• “How am I not myself? Coetzee and Rousseau.” Recognizing the Other: Discourses of Alterity in J.M. Coetzee and His Contexts Conference, Justus Liebig University, 2012. (conference presentation)

• “‘Now I am past shame’: J.M. Coetzee and the loss of dignity.” Current Research in the Humanities Conference, University of Cape Town, 2011. (*conference presentation)

• “The politics of selfhood in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime.” AUETSA Conference, Rhodes University, 2011. (*conference presentation)

• “Romancing the farm: The resistance of landscape in the autobiographical fiction of J.M. Coetzee.” Current Research in the Humanities Conference, University of Cape Town, 2010. (*conference presentation)