Selected Talks

“Followed by Nine Zeroes: Experiments in Deep Time.” Panel Discussion, Oude Leeskamer, Stellenbosch. (2025)

“Living Through Epochal Change.” Environmental Humanities Workshop, Stellenbosch University. (2024)

“The Invisible South in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.” Writing from the South Workshop, 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)

“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.” The European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Triennial Conference, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. (2023)

“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. (2021-2023)

“The politics of alternative temporalities in Imraan Coovadia’s A Spy in Time.” 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)

“Reformulating the ecological subject in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh.” Cli-Fi and Beyond, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference 2019, 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)

“Eugène Marais and lowlife baboons.” Stellenbosch Dirt Colloquium, Stellenbosch 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)