The news archive for the UCT Department of English. The articles are listed from latest to oldest.
December 2024
Nabowayah Kafaar: Celebrating 25 Years at the University of Cape Town
- Tue, 12/17/2024 - 11:47
November 2024
In These Mountains by Stephen Watson
- Tue, 11/26/2024 - 10:57
October 2024
Shakespeare and Social Justice: Inaugural Lecture by Professor Sandra Young
- Sat, 10/05/2024 - 06:49
New Contrast: Launch of Issue 206
- Wed, 10/02/2024 - 10:16
September 2024
Nadia Davids wins 2024 Caine Prize
- Fri, 09/20/2024 - 12:33
Wisani Mushwana's debut novel 'A Soft Landing' shortlisted for UJ Prize
- Wed, 09/11/2024 - 09:21
July 2024
The UCT Writers Series featuring Barbara Boswell and Wisani Mushwana
- Mon, 07/01/2024 - 14:51
June 2024
Polo B. Moji Awarded the 2024 African Literature Association's First Book Award
- Thu, 06/13/2024 - 08:28
May 2024
Book Launch Programme
- Tue, 05/14/2024 - 12:44
Book Launch: The Comrade's Wife by Barbara Boswell
- Tue, 05/14/2024 - 12:30
April 2024
Book Launch: Show Me the Place by Hedley Twidle
- Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:25
March 2024
African Literary Cities Seminar on “Music as Urban Narrative”
- Wed, 03/13/2024 - 09:39
October 2023
Prof Sandra Young receives Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship
- Thu, 10/12/2023 - 06:44
August 2023
Writer's Seminar with Wisani Mushwana
- Tue, 08/15/2023 - 09:22
May 2023
Book Launch: A Soft Landing by Wisani Mushwana
- Tue, 05/30/2023 - 12:55
April 2023
The Writers' Seminar with Peter Anderson
- Tue, 04/25/2023 - 21:38
Book Launch: Night Transit by Associate Professor Peter Anderson
- Wed, 04/19/2023 - 15:37
July 2022
Social Justice: Prof Sandra Young co-edits a special issue of 'Shakespeare Bulletin'
- Mon, 07/04/2022 - 11:30
June 2022
Book Launch: Lauretta Ngcobo: Writing as the Practice of Freedom by Dr Barbara Boswell (Associate Professor)
- Fri, 06/03/2022 - 11:00
May 2022
Book Launch: Skin Rafts by Kelwyn Sole (Professor Emeritus)
- Tue, 05/03/2022 - 09:15
April 2022
Research Seminar: Associate Professor Hedley Twidle (UCT) on Akash Kapur’s 'Better to Have Gone:
Memoir, utopia and belonging in the postcolony'
- Tue, 04/05/2022 - 10:00
March 2022
Research Seminar: Professor James Corby (UM) on Insularity without Subjectivity in J.M. Coetzee's 'Foe'
- Thu, 03/17/2022 - 18:45
The Writers' Seminar with Elleke Boehmer
- Thu, 03/17/2022 - 16:30
Konstantin Sofianos Scholarship Winner 2022
- Mon, 03/14/2022 - 11:45
February 2022
The Writers' Seminar with C.A. Davids
- Mon, 02/28/2022 - 11:45
November 2021
Associate Professor Christopher Ouma receives College of Fellows Young Researcher Award
- Mon, 11/08/2021 - 12:30
October 2021
Research Seminar: Associate Professor Rosanne Kennedy on the role of activism in shaping cultural memory
- Mon, 10/25/2021 - 10:15
The Konstantin Sofianos Scholarship 2022 essay topic has been released
- Thu, 10/21/2021 - 11:00
The Writers' Seminar with Damon Galgut
- Wed, 10/20/2021 - 09:45
Research Seminar: Leon Bomela on "Nationalism in Nyamnjoh's Fiction"
- Tue, 10/19/2021 - 12:15
Launching monthly 'The Writer's Seminar' Series
- Fri, 10/15/2021 - 09:00
The Konstantin Sofianos Scholarship applications open for 2022
- Tue, 10/05/2021 - 09:30
Associate Professor Nadia Davids' latest play, Hold Still, premieres this month
- Mon, 10/04/2021 - 16:15
March 2021
Associate Professor Nadia Davids wins UCT Creative Art Works Award
- Fri, 03/19/2021 - 18:15
February 2021
Virtual Event: Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature BOOK LAUNCH
- Wed, 02/17/2021 - 11:30
September 2020
Online Event: African Feminisms 2020
- Mon, 09/07/2020 - 14:00
August 2020
Christopher Ouma launches Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past
- Fri, 08/28/2020 - 14:00
July 2020
Webinar to unpack racism and inequality amid COVID-19
- Mon, 07/13/2020 - 13:15
March 2020
In memoriam: Professor Harry Garuba
- Tue, 03/03/2020 - 12:00
February 2020
Hedley Twidle participated in the Bergen Literary Festival in Norway
- Fri, 02/28/2020 - 12:00
Sandra Young, keynote speaker at the University of Bayreuth in Germany
- Fri, 02/28/2020 - 12:00
Barbara Boswell hosts Professor Elleke Boehmer's book launch
- Fri, 02/28/2020 - 12:00
December 2019
End of year party 2019
- Fri, 12/06/2019 - 12:30
October 2019
Postgraduate Conference 2019
- Thu, 10/31/2019 - 10:15
August 2019
Hedley Twidle launches Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-Fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa
- Wed, 08/28/2019 - 10:45
Dr Polo Moji co-edits new publication on the study of blackness in contemporary Europe
- Wed, 08/28/2019 - 10:15
May 2019
Public event: Shakespeare and Social Justice panel discussion and book launch, 18 May 2019
- Thu, 05/16/2019 - 10:15
Shakespeare and Social Justice keynote address by Professor Ayanna Thompson: 5pm, 16 May 2019
- Wed, 05/15/2019 - 11:30
March 2019
Event: Andrew van der Vlies in conversation with Erica Lombard at UCT on 4 April
- Wed, 03/27/2019 - 13:30
English Honours students Daniela Friedman and Tasneem Allybokus have been made interns at PEN SA
- Wed, 03/27/2019 - 11:30