Eckard Smuts

Academic Publications

• “Between a Post-Anthropocentric Rock and a Postcolonial Hard Place: Notes Towards a Planetary Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.” English in Africa, 2025 (research article)

• “Short takes on disjointed times: literary form and social thought in Graham K. Riach’s The Short Story After Apartheid.” Safundi, 2024. (review essay)

• “Life & Times of Michael K.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee, 2023. (book chapter)

• “Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather.” English Studies in Africa, 2023. (research article)

• “From Apartheid to the Planetary Present: Breaching Time in Nadine Gordimer’s Something Out There.” Social Dynamics, 2022. (research article)

• “The ‘baboon boy’ of the Eastern Cape and the making of the human in South Africa.” Social Dynamics, 2018. (research article)

• “J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and the Poetics of Resistance.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2017. (research article)

• “‘The Country of his Heart’: J.M. Coetzee, Wordsworth and the Karoo Farm.” English in Africa, 2015. (research article)

• “J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Selfhood.” English in Africa, 2012. (research article)

• “Reading Through the Gates: Structure, Desire and Subjectivity in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.” English in Africa, 2009. (research article)

Reviews and Other Writing

• “Battling Ghosts From the Past and Building Walls: An Island by Karen Jennings.” Daily Maverick, 2021. (book review)

• “Silulo Ulutho Technologies: African social enterprise driving inclusive business practice.” Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2019. (case study)

• “Die Chacma-ekspedisie: Heling pleks van verdeling (2016), by Marius Ackermann.”. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017. (book review)

• “J.M. Coetzee: Two Screenplays (2014), by J.M. Coetzee. Edited by Hermann Wittenberg.” English in Africa, 2016. (book review)

• “Drought: The Material Immaterial.” Nature Critical, 2016. (guest blog)

• “Review: Stellenbosch Dirt Colloquium.” Africa in Words, 2015. (guest blog)

• “The Reactive (2014), by Masande Ntshanga.” Aerodrome, 2015. (book review)

• “Rachel’s Blue (2013), by Zakes Mda” SLiP, 2014. (book review)