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and Cinema in Francophone West Africa, the Translation of
Southern African Literature into French, Sephardi Women
Writers from the Maghreb, German Colonial Discourse
in Africa and German Missionary Writings, Comparative
Perspectives on German/Afrikaans Literature.
The School has a number of formal and informal links with
universities elsewhere in Africa (e.g. National University
of the Ivory Coast at Abidjan, University of St Denis in
Réunion, University of Zimbabwe), and further afield
(e.g. ENS Cachan – Grenoble 3 Stendhal, University of
Bologna). The School is also a founder member of L’Ecole
doctorale regionale (Afrique australe – Océan indien).
School Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
Professors
4
Associate Professors
4
Senior Lecturers
5
Full-time Lecturers
9
Part-time Lecturers
9
Administrative Staff
3
Total
34
Students
Doctoral
11
Master’s
40
Honours
22
Undergraduate
3496
Total
3569
Honorary staff
Honorary Research Associates
3
Research Fields and Staff
Permanent staff
Associate Professor Clive Chandler
Director of School; ancient philosophy and rhetoric;
Philodemus; Homer commentaries; madness in antiquity.
Professor Jean-Louis Cornille
Section Head (French); 19th - 20th century French
literature.
Dr Jay Corwin
Section Head (Spanish); Senior Lecturer; Latin American
literature.
Dr Ruth de Oliveira
Lecturer; didactics of French as a foreign and second
language; French Linguistics.
Ms Somikazi Deyi
Lecturer; multilingualism in higher education with a
particular focus on the teaching of mathematics and
science in the home language.
Adjunct Professor Tessa Dowling
Second language teaching and learning; sociolinguistics.
Associate Professor Yasin Dutton
Section Head (Arabic); early Islamic law; early Koranic
manuscripts; Islamic law in the modern world.
Dr Vanessa Everson
Senior Lecturer; Women writers from the Maghreb (1990
onwards); translation; modern language methodology.
Professor Joan Hambidge
Poetry; theory of literature and criticism; gender studies;
creative writing.
Mrs Sonja Loots
Lecturer; Afrikaans literature; Dutch literature;
Afrikaans archive; commemorating the past; Afrikaans
writers writing about apartheid; memory and history in
Afrikaans prose; museum practices in recent Afrikaans
novels; social anthropological approaches in Afrikaans
prose.
Dr Pasquale Macaluso
Lecturer; Modern Arabic literature; 20
th
century Syrian
discourse; Arab nationalism.
Ms Annabelle Marie
Lecturer; didactics of foreign language and analysis
of French literature, especially from the Caribbean and
French-speaking Africa.
Associate Professor Abner Nyamende
Section Head (African Languages); African Literature.
Dr Azila Reisenberger
Section Head (Hebrew); Senior Lecturer; Modern and
Ancient Hebrew literature.
Dr Roman Roth
Senior Lecturer; Classical Archaeology and material
culture of the Mediterranean world.
Ms Brigitte Selzer
Section Head (German); Lecturer; German language
and literature; woman/gender studies; satire; language
skepticism 19
th
/20
th
century; turn-of-the-century literature;
German Romanticism.