POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH IN THE DEPARTMENT

   

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ELL5000W MASTERS IN ENGLISH

By Dissertation

ADAMS, BETONY LASCELLES - current
Narratives around the body in South African literature

ENGELS, RYLAND PETER ANTHONI J - completed in 2011
Truth and literary form: essays in Hermeneutics

GOVENDER, NEHTRA - current
Crossing the Indian Ocean:  The South African Indian identity complex

JOHNSTON, SARAH ALISON - current
Genderqueer: Texts and Politics

JONAS, SIPHOKAZI - current
Shakespeare (is still) in South Africa

WALDBURGER, CHRISTOPHER PETER - current                           
Chesterton, modernism, and the representation of reality

ELL6000W PhD

BUCHANAN, SUSAN JANE - current
The diversity of life and the singularity of literature: natural history in the Cape

CAWOOD, MEGAN JANE - current
Passing on: "The weight of memory" and the second generation fiction of Anne Michaels, W.G. Sebald and Bernhard Schlink

CROUS, MATTHYS LOURENS - current
Abjection in the novels of Marlene van Niekerk

DODDS, ALEXANDRA - current
Secular Séance: Uncovering the Victorian postmodern in contemporary South African art and literature

MAMUDU, CLEMENT OSHOGWE - current
The Nigerian novel and the postcolonial city

O'SHAUGHNESSY, EMMA VIVIAN
Splinters in the eyes - reading the metropoetics of crisis in post-apartheid Johannesburg fictions

POWERS, DONALD STUART - competed in 2011
Entrapment and emancipation: the limits of reason in J.M. Coetzee's fiction

SEY, JAMES ALEXANDER - current
The cyborg body in time and space

SMUTS, MERRIMAN ECKARD - current
Romanticism in Coetzee's autobiographical fictions: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime

VAN DER SCHYFF, KARLIEN - current
Body Politics/Political Bodies: Gender and Nationhood in South African Literature

VAN SCHALKWYK, SIMON LYLE - current
Mid-century American poetry: All's misalliance Robert Lowell's Imitations