The news archive for the UCT Department of English.  The articles are listed from latest to oldest.

May 2025

Welcoming our new colleague, Wisani Mushwana - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 11:23

April 2025

The Interpreters: South Africa's New Nonfiction. Launching 7 May. - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 12:03
Departmental Research Seminar, First Semester 2025 - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 11:47

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