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Contributors/Medewerkers

Willem Anker lectures creative writing in the Department of Afrikaans andDutch at the University of Stellenbosch. He is currently completing hisdoctoral studies which focus on a Deleuze-Guattarian reading of the work ofBreyten Breytenbach and Alexander Strachan.

Matthew Brophy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English atBinghamton University, a State University of New York. His primaryacademic interests are in early American literature and psychoanalytictheory. More broadly, he is interested in investigating texts which exploreand critique imperial nationalisms informed by religious ideology.

Leon de Kock is Professor in English Studies at Unisa. He has publishedwidely on postcolonial studies in South Africa and on South African identitypolitics, including books and articles. He is currently working on atranslation project.

Ashleigh Harris is a lecturer in the Discipline of English at the University ofthe Witwatersrand. Her PhD "The language her ma'am spoke: voicing the'mother-tongue' in Toni Morrison's fiction" (University of the Witwaters-rand 2002) focussed on the role Morrison's fiction plays in remembering thetraumatic national history of slavery in the United States. Her currentresearch concentrates on the role of literature in bearing witness to traumaticnational histories in Zimbabwean writing.

J.A. Kearney is an honorary research associate at the University of Kwazulu-Natal (Durban) where he taught in English Studies from 1970 till hisretirement at the end of 1998. Presently he is Acting Head of Department forEnglish in the School of Languages, Literacies, Media & Drama Education,Faculty of Education, UKZN. His research interests now include con-temporary African and South African literature, as well as the teaching oftexts and of literary theory.

Karen Scherzinger is an associate professor in the Department of English atUnisa. Her research interests include the work of Henry James, Yann Martel,Kazuo Ishiguro, narratology and postructuralism. She has published recentlyin The Henry James Review, scrutiny2, Literator, English Studies in Africaand The Journal of Literary Studies/Tydskrifvir literatuurwetenskap.

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Harry Sewlall holds an MA (cum laude) from Unisa on the poetry of PhilipLarkin, and a PhD from North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) onthe early works of Joseph Conrad. He has read papers, as well as publishedeclectically, on subjects such as Ngugi, Mda, Matshoba, Conrad, Orwell,Dostoevsky, and Ecofeminism, both locally and abroad. His current interestsinclude postcolonial and ecocritical issues, while his abiding interest hasalways been Elvis Presley! Formerly an inspector of English for schools, DrSewlall joined Vudec, the distance education campus of Vista University, in1998, and after Vudec's merger with Unisa in 2004, he was appointed SeniorLecturer in Unisa's Department of English Studies.

Jack Shear teaches in the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences atBinghamton University. He has written articles on Victorian literature, thefin de siècle, the Gothic novel, and sexual politics. He is currently co-director of the English Department's Teaching Assistant Developmentprogram at Binghamton University.

Kim Wallmach teaches translation and interpreting at the Department ofLinguistics, University of South Africa and is Joint Director of the BAdegree programme in court interpreting (established in 2000). She alsoworks as a freelance project manager for simultaneous and consecutiveinterpreting and translation in the eleven official languages of South Africa.Her current research interests include interpreting/translation and nation-building, translation/interpreting and ideology, interpreting in legal andhealth contexts and corpus-based interpreting studies. She holds an MA anda PhD in translation from the University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg.

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