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Name: Minesh Dass
Location: B Ring 721A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: 011 559 3711
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About Dr Minesh Dass
Qualifications
PhD, English (Rhodes 欧美福利100000)
MA, English (欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg)
Teaching and Research Interests
Dr Minesh Dass is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. He has also taught English literary studies at Rhodes 欧美福利100000 and theory of literature at the 欧美福利100000 of South Africa. He has published work on notions of home and belonging in South African post-apartheid writing, and on university institutional culture. His current research focuses on methods of literary analysis and their applicability to South African cultural study. Minesh Dass is also currently acting as an affiliate and ex-vice-principal investigator of the Urban Connections in African Popular Imaginaries (UCAPI) Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation and hosted by Rhodes 欧美福利100000. The research is concerned with popular modes of representation and interpretation, and specifically with the ways in which local specificities and global imaginaries are articulated through popular genres. It seeks to engage critically with various knowledge productions that are embedded in local cultural forms. The project is designed to increase capacity and research on African popular culture. It is a collaborative endeavor that seeks to strengthen associations between scholars across the African continent.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
2022. 鈥淭he Circularity of Integrity, and the Politics of Complicity in Thando Mgqolozana鈥檚 Unimportance.鈥� Forthcoming in Research in African Literatures
2020. 鈥淚ntroduction: Reading Post-Apartheid Whiteness.鈥� Journal of Literary Studies. 36.4: 1-8. Co-authored with Any Carolin and Bridget Grogan.
2018. 鈥淣iq Mhlongo Told us #FeesMustFall, or Why the Surface Matters in Dog Eat Dog.鈥� English in Africa. 45.3: 119-38.
2017. “‘Wishy-washy liberalism’ and ‘the art of getting lost’ in Ivan Vladislavic’s Double Negative.” English in Africa. 44.3: 9-30.
2017. 鈥溾�楢ll just surface and veneer:鈥� The Challenge of Seeing and Reading in Ishtiyaq Shukri鈥檚 I See You.鈥� Safundi.18.4 (October).
2017. 鈥淐osmopolitanism and the Unfollowable Routines and Rituals in Ishtiyaq Shukri鈥檚 The Silent Minaret.鈥� Journal of Literary Studies. 33.1: 94-107.
2011. 鈥溾�楢manuensis鈥� and 鈥榮teatopygia鈥�: the complexity of 鈥榯elling the tale鈥� in Zo毛 Wicomb鈥檚 David鈥檚 Story.鈥� English in Africa. 38.2: 45-60.
2011. 鈥溾�楢 place in which to cry鈥欌��: The place for Race and the Home for Shame in Zo褢 Wicomb鈥檚 Playing in the Light.鈥� Current Writing. 23.2: 137-46.
2009. 鈥淣arrative miscegenation in Zo毛 Wicomb’s David’s Story.鈥� Scrutiny2. 14.2: 72-86.
2004. 鈥淩esponse and Responsibility in Phaswane Mpe鈥檚 Welcome to Our Hillbrow.鈥� Alternation. 11.1: 165-85.
Book Chapters
- 鈥淢aking Room for the Unexpected: The 欧美福利100000 and the Ethical Imperative of Unconditional Hospitality.鈥� Being at Home: Race, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Learning Institutions. Ed. Pedro Tabensky and Sally Matthews. Pietermartizburg: UKZN Press, 2015. 99-115.
- (with Mike Marais). 鈥淩eading Unreadable Lives: Precarity in Ken Barris鈥檚 What Kind of Child and Ishtiyaq Shukri鈥檚 The Silent Minaret.鈥� Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture. Ed. Emily Ridge and Jeffrey Clapp. London: Routledge, 2016. 127-40.
Book Reviews
- Rev. Beyond the threshold: Explorations of liminality in literature. Ed. Hein Viljoen and Chris N. van der Merwe. English Academy Review 30:1: 124-28.