2025
Bomela Leon Loombe: ‘The Anglophone Problem in Francis Nyamnjoh’s Ethnographic Fiction: Negotiating Nationalism, Belonging and Flexible Cameroonian Citizenship’
Wisani Mushwana: ‘Writing Against Shame: Contemporary African Writing on Queer Subjectivities’
2024
Naeelah Kamaldien: ‘Resistance within the Text: Apartheid Protest Poetry Produced by South African High School Learners between 1960 and 1990’
2022
Maria Geustyn: ‘Literature and the Littoral in South Africa: Reading the Tides of History'
2021
Clement Mamudu: ‘The Nigerian Novel and the Postcolonial City'
2020
Rowan Roux: 'Post-Apartheid Speculative Fiction and the South African City'
2019
Karlien van der Schyff: ‘Beyond the “Baartman Trope”: Representations of black women’s bodies from the early South African Proto-nationalisms to Postapartheid nationalism’
2018
Rosa Lyster: ‘A History of Apartheid Censorship Through the Archive’
Tara Leverton: ‘Madmen and Mad Money: Psychological Disability and Economics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature’
2017
Daniela Joffe: ‘In the shadows: David Foster Wallace and multicultural America’
Kamil Naicker: ‘Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction’
2016
Corinne Abel: ‘Power and Transgression: Margins and Monstrous Women in Selected Works of Angela Carter and Bharati Mukherjee’
Uhuru Portia Phalafala: ‘My name is Afrika: Setswana genealogies, trans-Atlantic interlocutions, and NOW-time in Keorapetse Kgositsile’s life and work’
2014
Megan Cawood: ‘Passing On: “The Weight of Memory” and the Second Generation Fiction of Anne Michaels, W.G. Sebald and Bernhard Schlink’
Alexandra Dodd: ‘Secular Séance: Post-Victorian embodiment in contemporary South African Art’
Eckard Smuts: ‘Displaced romanticism: Searching for the “self” in J.M. Coetzee’s autobiographical fiction’
2013
Matthys Crous: ‘Abjection in the novels of Marlene van Niekerk’
Emma O’Shaughnessy: ‘History lives on these streets: Reading place and urban disorder in three post-apartheid Johannesburg novels’
Simon van Schalkwyk: ‘An American parallel for each new European marvel: Robert Lowell’s “Imitations” and the Cold War world’
Sarah Warner: ‘Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity’
2012
Robert Macdonald: ‘Reading restitution in District Six: Law, discourse and “governmentality”’
2011
Donald Powers: ‘Entrapment and emancipation: The limits of reason in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction’