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Mailing Address Faculty of Arts School of English Literatures, Philosophy, and Language University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia

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Research Interests African writing in English and Portuguese (Lusophone African writing); postcolonial life writing (with an emphasis on Southern African African and Caribbean texts); writing and subjectivity; Postcolonial theory; Literary and cultural theories; contemporary Australian, Caribbean and Indian writing (in English); 20th Century British literature and culture, with emphasis on Afro-British authors.

Teaching Interests African writing in English and Portuguese (Lusophone African writing); postcolonial life writing (with an emphasis on Southern African African and Caribbean texts); writing and subjectivity; Postcolonial theory; Literary and cultural theories; contemporary Australian, Caribbean and Indian writing (in English); 20th Century British literature and culture, with emphasis on Afro-British authors.

Publications * The Luxury of Nationalist Despair: The Fiction of George Lamming. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. Contributions to Books: "Redeeming Self: the Business of Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South Africa," In Transnational Whiteness Matters, Eds. Maryrose Casey, Aileen Moreton-Robinson & Fiona Nicoll. Lexington Books, 2008. Forthcoming. "Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, race and history," Connecting Cultures, ed. Emma Bainbridge. London: Routledge. 2007. "José Craveirinha," Refereed author entry, Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Detroit: St. James Press, 2003. "Half-Home: A Reading of Sneja Gunew's Framing Marginality." In Authority and Influence: Australian literary Criticism 1950-2000, Eds Delys Bird, Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee, St Lucia: UQP, 2001, 359-363. Journal Articles "Narrating Redemption: Life Writing and Whiteness in The New South Africa: Gillian Slovo's Every Secret Thing," ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, forthcoming, 2008. "'On your knees', White Man: African (Un)Belongings in Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart," Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 5.2, 2007. "Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, race and history," Third World Quarterly, 26.3, 2005, 471-78. "Myths, Traditions and Mothers of the Nation: Some Thoughts on Efua Sutherland's Writing," EnterText, 4.2, 2005. 1-17. "'Playing with words': politics, poetry and colonialism in José Craveirinha's work," Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 4.2, 2004. 4-21. "Rethinking Marginality: Class, Identity and Desire in Contemporary Australian Writing," Life Writing, Inaugural issue, 1.1, 2004. 45-68. "Clearing the horizon: science, social sciences and Africa: a response," Mots Pluriels, No. 24, June 2003. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP2403tss.html "Whose Bombay is it, anyway? A reading of Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay," Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 175, 2003. Reprint; first appeared in ARIEL: A Review of International Literature in English, 28.3, July 1997, 63-77. "African Childhoods: Identity, Race and Autobiography," Mots Pluriels, No. 22, August 2002. Special issue on 'The Child in Africa'. http://motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au/MP2202tss.html "Raced Encounters, Sexed Transactions: 'Luso-tropicalism' & the Portuguese Colonial Empire," Pretexts: Literary and Cultural Studies, 11.1, July 2002, 27-39. "De/colonizing Tales," Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 6.1 & 2, 2001. Special issue 'Growing Up Elsewhere' http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v6i1-2/con61.htm

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