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

September 2024

Nadia Davids wins 2023 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

February 2019

Book launch: The Zulus of New York, by Zakes Mda. In conversation with Nadia Davids - Thu, 02/21/2019 - 11:00
Institute for Creative Arts Book Launch - Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa - Fri, 02/15/2019 - 12:30

November 2018

Dr Mandisa Haarhoff at Northwestern University - Thu, 11/29/2018 - 10:45
Associate Professor Nadia Davids' play At Her Feet returns to the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio from 22 November to 8 December 2018 – for the first time in 14 years - Mon, 11/19/2018 - 11:00
Associate Professor Barbara Boswell has been awarded the coveted Debut Award for South African Writing in English from the University of Johannesburg for her novel Grace - Mon, 11/12/2018 - 12:00

September 2018

Black Archives and Intellectual Histories Seminar Series - Archive in the Wake - Tue, 09/25/2018 - 09:45
Barbara Boswell’s novel, Grace has been shortlisted for the UJ Debut Literary Prize for South African Writing in English - Thu, 09/13/2018 - 12:45
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories - Embodied Epistemes: Disappearance and the Archive - Thu, 09/13/2018 - 11:15

August 2018

Associate Professor Barbara Boswell's interview for the Cheeky Natives Podcast - Fri, 08/31/2018 - 09:45
Professor Carrol Clarkson wins UCT Meritorious Book Award - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 14:30
TB Davie pre-lecture dinner - Tue, 08/21/2018 - 11:15
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories - Mon, 08/06/2018 - 10:45

June 2018

The Department celebrates the graduation of two of our PhD students this month - Wed, 06/27/2018 - 12:45
Assoc. Prof. Harry Garuba’s poem gets published as the poem of the week in the Guardian newspaper - Wed, 06/13/2018 - 12:30