CV for Professor Corinne Sandwith

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1 CV for Professor Corinne Sandwith 225 Klip Street Muckleneuk Pretoria Personal Details Name: Corinne Lynette Sandwith Date of Birth: 9 April 1970 Nationality: South African Education 2006 PhD in South African literary-culture. Title: Culture in the Public Sphere: Recovering a Tradition of Radical Cultural- Political Debate in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal MA in South African Literature. Title: Olive Schreiner s Undine: A Colonial Novel? University of Natal BA (Honours) in English (cum laude). University of Natal. Positions June 2014 to date Associate Professor, English Department, University of Pretoria June 2014 Senior Lecturer in English Studies, UKZN Lecturer in English Studies, University of Natal and UKZN Contract Lecturer in English Studies, University of Natal. Page 1

2 Publications 1. Books 2014 World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press. 2. Edited Books 2011 Africa South: Viewpoints Edited by MJ Daymond and Corinne Sandwith. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press. 3. Peer-Reviewed Articles, Conference Proceedings and Reviews 2018 Discourses of Peace, Discourses of Power: Revisiting the Bantu Men s Social Centre. Artisans de Paix (forthcoming). History by Paratext: Thomas Mofolo s Chaka. Journal of Southern African Studies 44(3), pp The Appearance of the Book: Towards a History of the Reading Lives and Worlds of Black South African Readers. English in Africa 45 No. 1 (April 2018): The Idea of Reading in Early Twentieth Century South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies. 42(6): Frailties of the Flesh: Observing the Body in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie s Purple Hibiscus. Research in African Literatures 47(1): Material Things. Review Article: Andrew van der Vlies, ed. Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa and Archie L Dick, The Hidden History of South Africa s Book and Reading Cultures. Safundi 14(4): Yours for Socialism : Communist Cultural Discourse in Early Apartheid South Africa. Safundi 14(3): Postcolonial Violence: Narrating South Africa, May Current Writing October 22(2): Entering the Territory of Incitement : Oppositionality and Africa South. Social Dynamics 35(1): Page 2

3 2008 The Work of Cultural Criticism: Re-visiting The South African Opinion. Alternation 15(1): Introduction. Co-written with Jabulani Mkhize and Shane Moran. Alternation 15(1): Revolutionaries or Sell-Outs? African Intellectuals and The Voice of Africa, English in Africa 33(2): Review of The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of the Pilgrim s Progress by Isabel Hofmeyr. Transformation 58: Contesting a Cult(ure) of Respectability : Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Western Cape, Current Writing 16(2): Dora Taylor: South African Marxist. English in Africa 29(2) October: A Social Function for Literature? Two Women Critics and South African English Studies, Alternation 5(1): The Moment of Trek: Literary and Political Criticism in the South African Periodical Press, Current Writing 10 (1): Schreiner versus Schreiner: A Contest of Value. Journal of Literary Studies 10(3): Chapters in Books 2017 The Banality of Violence: Reading the Daily Sun. In: Tracks and Traces of Violence: The Representation and Memorialisation of Violence in Africa in Art, Literature and Anthropology. ed. BIGSAS Workgroup Tracks and Traces of Violence. Berlin: Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf: Revolutionaries or Sell-Outs? African Intellectuals and The Voice of Africa, In: Postcolonialism: South /African Perspectives. ed. Michael Chapman. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press: The Importance of Being Educated: Strategies of an Urban Petit-Bourgeois Elite, In: African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective. ed. Steve Salm and Toyin Falola. Rochester: Rochester University Press: Page 3

4 Conferences 1. International 2017 Discourses of Peace, Discourses of Power: Revisiting the Johanesburg Bantu Men s Social Centre. Peace Makers and Bridge Builders 19 th C 20 th C. Université de La Réunion October Reading and Roaming the Racial City: R.R.R. Dhlomo and The Bantu World. Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies. African Literature Association 43 rd Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven June Mutable Mofolo: The History of a Multi-lingual Book. Print Culture and Publishing in Africa Colloquium, Oxford Brookes University, UK, 13 th September. Mutable Mofolo: The History of a Multi-lingual Book. Languages of the Book. Society of the History, Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) July. Paris, France Reading Habits: Cultures of Reading and Criticism in 1940s South Africa. The Generation and Regeneration of Books. Society of the History, Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) July. Longueuil, Montreal, Canada Violence and its (Non-)Representations in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Tracks and Traces of Violence Conference July. BIGSAS University of Bayreuth, Germany Postcolonial Violence: Narrating South Africa, May VII Iberian Congress of African Studies, 9 11 September. Lisbon, Portugal Entering the Territory of Incitement : Africa South and the Public Performance of Dissent, th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, nd August. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Revolutionaries or Sell-Outs? African intellectuals and The Voice of Africa, th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 4 9 August. Hyderabad, India The Importance of Being Educated: Strategies of an Urban Petit-Bourgeois Elite, Africa Conference, March. University of Austin, Texas. Page 4

5 2001 Culture and the Struggle: the Journalism, Criticism and Fiction of Dora Taylor. 12th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies July. Canberra, Australia. 2. Local The Women Reader/Writer in the African Press. Print Culture and Publishing in Southern Africa May. University of Pretoria Reading and Roaming the Racial City: R.R.R. Dhlomo and The Bantu World. Conferencing the City: City Studies at UP. University of Pretoria. 23 November The Appearance of the Book: Early Twentieth-Century Black Reading Cultures in South Africa. 4th Annual Book History and Print Culture Seminar. 23 May. University of Pretoria, Pretoria Well-seasoned talks about this that or the other : R. Roamer Esq. K.A. and the stylistics of dissent. International Workshop on African Print Cultures, Maropeng June, Jointly hosted by the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Michigan Reading Habits: Cultures of Reading and Criticism in 1940s South Africa. Colloquium on Print Culture and Colonisation in Africa May, Cape Town. Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and University of Cape Town Crime Stories, Refugee Stories. Crime Stories Colloquium, WISER June. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Culture in the Public Sphere: Recovering a Tradition of Radical Cultural-Political Debate in South Africa, AUETSA, 6-9 July. University of Cape Town, Cape Town Writing about Writing: Black and White Literary Critics in the South African Periodical Press. 19 th Triennial Conference of the International Comparative Literature Association. UNISA, July. Pretoria Too High a Price, even for Shakespeare : Criticism and Politics in the Black Press, South Africa AUETSA, July. UNISA, Pretoria. Page 5

6 1997 The Literary Moment of Trek: South African Literary Criticism in the Periodical Press. AUETSA, July. University of the North, Pietersburg Dissenting Voices? South African Women Critics and English Studies, Gender and Colonialism Conference, January. University of the Western Cape Genius or Neurotic?: Reading Olive Schreiner in the 1950s. AUETSA. 30 June -5 July. University of the Western Cape Schreiner versus Schreiner: A Contest of Value. Interdisciplinary conference at the Centre for Southern African Literary Studies, University of Durban-Westville. July. Workshops, Lectures and Seminars 2016 Lecture on Achmat Dangor s Bitter Fruit. Third Year Law Students, University of Pretoria Lecture on Tsitsi Dangaremgba s Nervous Conditions. Third Year Law Students, University of Pretoria Print, Reading, Book Culture and Debate in South Africa. Panel discussion with Archie Dick and Isabel Hofmeyr. 26 September Jozi Book Fair, Central Johannesburg College, Ellis Park Campus Non-Racialism in South African Literature. Lecture given to English Department Staff and Students at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth. 26 September Cultural Debates in the Non-European Unity Movement. Paper presented at the 100 th Anniversary Celebrations at of the Teachers League of South Africa and the 70 th Anniversary Celebrations of the Unity Movement. Athlone, Cape Town. 16 December Numerous seminar presentations to the English Study Research Seminar Series, Universities of Natal and KwaZulu-Natal. Page 6

7 2011 Civility in Question: Cultural Debates in the Non-European Unity Movement. Seminar presented at the History and African Studies Seminar, 14 September UKZN, Durban Africa South: Viewpoints and Perspectives, Seminar presented with MJ Daymond at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, 15 February UKZN, Durban Culture in the Public Sphere: Recovering a Tradition of Radical Cultural-Political Debate in South Africa. Institute of Liberal Arts Seminar, February. Emory University, Atlanta Contesting a Cult(ure) of Respectability : Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Western Cape, South African and Contemporary History Seminar. University of the Western Cape Conducted a series of workshops to train staff in web-based course development 1999 Seminar series on South African Literature (co-taught with Professor Michael Chapman) at the University of Palacky, Olomouc, Czech Republic Participant in Symposium on Academic Labour and Neo-Liberal Transformation of the University, South Africa/USA, University of Natal-Durban (UND), Durban, South Africa, June 24. Research Collaboration I am currently working on a special issue on the South African Short Story post-2000 to be published by the Journal of Commonwealth Studies. This is a collaboration with three colleagues in the English Department, UP. I am one of a team of international researchers and collaborators who are participating in a research and supervision project entitled Minor Cosmopolitanisms. The project, jointly hosted by the University of Potsdam, Free University and the Humbolt University in Berlin, brings together scholars working in India, the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Page 7

8 Part of an international team of researchers on Mellon-Funded Project, Urban Connections in African Popular Imaginaries with scholars from South Africa, Kenya and the UK. Project Co-ordinator, Dr Lynda Gichanda Spencer. One of a team of researchers from US, UK and South Africa focusing on Print Cultures in Africa. The envisaged outcome is a Special Issue for international journal, Historical Studies. Leadership Academic Leader for the Cluster of English Studies, Drama and Performance Studies, and Media and Cultural Studies. Administrative Experience Member of the Faculty Schools Liaison Committee, UKZN Member of the Information Technology Faculty Committee, UKZN Co-ordinator of First-level English Course ( students) Co-ordinator of two second-level, one third-level and one postgraduate module, the planning and co-ordination of the English Studies timetable and the co-ordination of the English Programme website (UKZN) Co-ordinator of the weekly research seminar in English Studies (UKZN) School Representative: planning and implementation of electronic/on-line Registration (UKZN) AUETSA conference UKZN organizing committee Chair of Postgraduate Proposal Committee tasked with vetting all new thesis proposals in the Cluster (UKZN) Member of the Postgraduate Committee (Humanities) at the University of Pretoria. Page 8

9 Co-ordinator of Second Level English Course. Teaching 1. Undergraduate Victorian literature Romanticism South African literature and culture African literature Colonial and Postcolonial writing Contemporary Film and American New Journalism ; Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies 2. Postgraduate Postmodernism South/African Literature Gender and Writing: covering key theoretical issues and writers including Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, de Sade, Jean Rhys, Herman Melville, EM Forster, Sylvia Plath, Olive Schreiner and Stevie Smith. Critical Theory Awards, Honours and Fellowships 2016 Winner of the Vice-Chancellor s Book Award (Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences). Shortlisted for the National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (NHISS) award for Non-Fiction Book. University of Pretoria, Research Development Program (R50 000) Humanities Faculty Researcher of the Year Award, Languages Cluster University of Pretoria. University of Pretoria, Research Development Program (R50 000) Research Associate at the Centre for the Critical Study of Race and Identity (ccrri) at University of KwaZulu-Natal One of three South African academics who received funding to present research at Tracks and Traces of Violence Conference, BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth Years Long Service Award Mellon Merit Award for Younger Scholars in the Humanities, UKZN (R30 000) National Research Foundation R (with project leader: Professor MJ Daymond) 2006 Post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study for Public Scholarship (CSPS) at Emory Page 9

10 University, Atlanta, USA. ($15 500) Graduate Award, University of Natal (R10 000) NRF scholarship (R6000). Postgraduate Supervision Completed: Numerous Honours Research Essays and 9 MAs. Completed MA degrees: Kathryn Gregerson. Representing Women: Gertrude Stein s Autobiography of Alice B Toklas and Jeanette Winterson s Written on the Body (UKZN) Fiona McGuigan. Gendered Geographies and the Politics of Place: A Comparative Reading of the Novels of Mariama Bâ and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (UKZN) Nandipha Sephuma. The Difference Debate: The Politics of Feminist Literary Criticism in South Africa (UKZN). Kirsten Miller. Writing Autism Inside-Out, Autism and Representation: A Critical Essay and a Novel (UKZN, Co-supervised by Dr Kobus Moolman). (With Distinction). Natasha King, Bodylands: lnscriptions of the Body and Embodiment in the Novels of Lauren Beukes (UKZN. Co-supervised by Prof Ileana Dimitriu) Nandi Weder. Representations of urban social change in Vladislavic's Johannesburg, Pamuk's Istanbul and Dalrymple's Delhi. (UP) With Distinction Stephanie de Viliers. Divinest Sense : the construction of female madness and the negotiation of female agency in Sylvia Plath s The Bell Jar, Jean Rhys s Wide Sargasso Sea, and Margaret Atwood s Surfacing. (UP) With Distinction Isabella Venter. Our Readers : Race and Gender Discourse in Popular Reading of White English Speaking South African Women ( ) (UP, Co-supervised with Dr Lize Kriel) With Distinction Michal-Marie Linden. Narrating the 2015 FeesMustFall movement: Explanations, Contestations, and Forms of Meaning-Making in the Public Sphere. Ongoing: I am currently supervising one MA and four PhD students. In 2011, I was supervisor and assessor for the Independent Study Project Component of the international SIT Study Abroad Programme in Social and Political Transformation. External Examining and Thesis Examination 2017 Appointed External Examiner for English Department, University of Stellenbosch Appointed External Examiner for English Department, University of Fort Hare. Page 10

11 Appointed External Examiner for Second-year Internet Studies Module, UKZN Appointed External Examiner for First-Year History Module, UKZN. I have acted as internal and external examiner for Masters and Doctoral theses in English Studies, Historical Studies, Gender Studies, Music and Creative Writing at the following universities: UNISA, Rhodes, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Stellenbosch, University of Johannesburg, University of Fort Hare and UCT). Scholarly Associations and Committees Member of the African Literature Association (ALA) Member of the Society of the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Member of the Association of University English Teachers in South Africa (AUETSA) Member of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Member of the executive editorial committee for Critical Arts to 2017 Editorial Committee, Current Writing. Community Service 2017 Organising Team for Tjo! Storyfest, 30th June-1st July, Mamelodi Campus, University of Pretoria Acted as reader for following journals: Current Writing, Critical Arts, Alternation, Journal of Education, South African Historical Journal, English Academy Review, the Nordic Journal of African Studies, Journal of Dutch Literature, English Studies in Africa, Scrutiny2, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studia Neophilologica, English in Africa and Research in African Literatures. I have also served as a reader for several manuscripts submitted to UKZN Press Guest on Radio 2000, 2 February (Africa South: Viewpoints and Perspectives) With MJ Daymond, co-ordinated digitization project of materials in the journal Africa South Ran weekly creative writing workshops with members of the Durban South community (Merebank, Lamontville and Wentworth) Contributing Scholar for Digital Imaging South Africa Project (DISA) Member of the Executive Committee of Treatment Action Campaign, UKZN Branch. Page 11

12 Judging panel for the annual Time of the Writer schools short story competition run by the Centre for Creative Arts, UKZN. Page 12