Peer-reviewed journal articles

• “Between a Post-Anthropocentric Rock and a Postcolonial Hard Place: Notes Towards a Planetary Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.” English in Africa 52.1&2 (2025)
• “Short takes on disjointed times: literary form and social thought in Graham K. Riach’s The Short Story After Apartheid.” Safundi 25.4 (2024)
• “Elemental Humanity in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather.” English Studies in Africa 66.1 (2023)
• “From Apartheid to the Planetary Present: Breaching Time in Nadine Gordimer’s Something Out There.” Social Dynamics 48.2 (2022)
• “The ‘baboon boy’ of the Eastern Cape and the making of the human in South Africa.” Social Dynamics 44.1 (2018)
• “J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron and the Poetics of Resistance.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 52.1 (2017).
• “‘The Country of his Heart’: J.M. Coetzee, Wordsworth and the Karoo Farm.” English in Africa 42.2 (2015)
• “J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Selfhood.” English in Africa 39.1 (2012)
• Reading Through the Gates: Structure, Desire and Subjectivity in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello.” English in Africa 36.2 (2009)

Book chapters

• “Life & Times of Michael K.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee. Edited by Andrew van der Vlies and Lucy Valerie Graham. Bloomsbury, (2023)

Reviews and selected 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). Shortlisted for the 2018 CEEMAN/Emerald Case Writing Competition.
• “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)

Presentations

Conferences

• “Trauma, Ecology, and Disgust in Karen Jennings’s “Crooked Seeds.” EASA Triennial International Conference 2026, University of Pretoria (2026)
• “The Invisible South in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.” Writing from the South Conference, Stellenbosch University (2024)
• “Dusklands and Planetary Change.” Dusklands at 50 Conference, University of the Western Cape (2024)
• “Animated terrain: From allegory to eco-materialism in Karen Jennings’s An Island.” EACLALS Triennial Conference, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (2023)
• “Reformulating the ecological subject in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, Georgetown University (2019)
• “Body, affect and social critique: J.M. Coetzee and sport.” Travelling with Coetzee: Other Arts, Other Languages Conference, Oxford University (2017)
• “The ‘baboon boy’ and the making of the human in South Africa.” The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa Conference, Yale University (2016)
• “‘Activities with no parallel in the rest of creation’: J.M. Coetzee and sport.” Coetzee’s Other Arts Conference, University of the Western Cape (2016)
• “‘They have indeed become citizens of a large world’: Eugène Marais and the place of baboons.” AUETSA Conference, Rhodes University (2015)
• “Crossing over with J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus.” CrossCurrents: Current Research in the Humanities Conference, University of Cape Town (2013)
• “How am I not myself? Coetzee and Rousseau.” Recognizing the Other: Discourses of Alterity in J.M. Coetzee and His Contexts Conference, Justus Liebig University (2012)
• “‘Now I am past shame’: J.M. Coetzee and the loss of dignity.” Current Research in the Humanities Conference, University of Cape Town (2011)
• “The politics of selfhood in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime.” AUETSA Conference, Rhodes University (2011)
• “Romancing the farm: The resistance of landscape in the autobiographical fiction of J.M. Coetzee.” Current Research in the Humanities Conference, University of Cape Town (2010)

Workshops, colloquia, and panels

• “Followed by Nine Zeroes: Experiments in Deep Time.” Panel discussion, Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch (2025)
• “Living Through Epochal Change.” Environmental Humanities workshop, Stellenbosch University (2024)
• “A Conversation with C.A. Davids”, Panel discussion, Stellenbosch University (2024)
• “Extractive Violence and Elemental Language in Ishmael Beah’s The Radiance of Tomorrow.” Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change workshop, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2024)
• “Narrative structure and the politics of temporality in Imraan Coovadia’s A Spy in Time.” Research seminar, Stellenbosch University (2023)
• “Deep Time and the Anthropocene: Radioactive Waste – A Case Study.” Anthropocene workshop, Stellenbosch University (2022)
• “The Politics of Alternative Temporalities in Imraan Coovadia’s A Spy in Time.” Research seminar, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape (2022)
• “Literary Baboons in South Africa: Remapping the Social and the Natural.” Mellon Emerging Scholars workshop, University of the Western Cape (2020)
• “Eugène Marais and lowlife baboons.” Stellenbosch Dirt Colloquium, Stellenbosch University (2015)