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Senior Lecturer
Name: Karen McCarthy
Location: GNA 223, Robert Sobukwe Building Soweto Campus
Department of Childhood Education, Faculty of Education, Staff听 Staff Members
Contact Details:
Tel: +27 11 559 5527
Email:听kmccarthy@uj.ac.za
About Dr. Karen McCarthy
Karen is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. Her undergraduate teaching blends literary study and academic literacy. She teaches an honours module that covers scholarship on early literacy in the South African context, as well as trends pertaining to representation in children鈥檚 literature. She oversees the MPhil in Children鈥檚 Literature offered by the department.
Her research interests are narratology and ethics in narrative fiction, particularly with regard to representations of women and children.
Accredited publications
McCarthy, K. A. 2025. 鈥淥verlooked and better for it: Looking twice at a woman in John Banville鈥檚 Ancient Light鈥�. Journal of Literary Studies, 41(1).
Koekemoer, C., Carolin, A., McCarthy, K. & van der Merwe, D. 听2025. 鈥淯sing WhatsApp to teach close reading at a South African university: The case of Markus Zusak鈥檚 The Book Thief鈥�. Changing English, 32(1): 1-14.
McCarthy, K. A. 2022. 鈥溾�楾he Incest Plot鈥� in John Banville鈥檚 Ancient Light鈥�. ABEI Journal 鈥� The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 24(2): 71-83.
Fhulani, N., Hendricks, M. & McCarthy, K. 2019. 鈥淢aking Poetry Accessible and Enjoyable: Towards Excellent Teaching鈥�. In: Harrison, G and Hendricks, M (eds), Lessons from the Kalahari: Tracking Teachers鈥� Professional Development. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
McCarthy, K. A. 2020. 鈥淭he split consciousness required to teach poetry to student teachers in a South African metropolitan university鈥�. In V. Nomlomo, Z. Desai, M. Mbelani, N. Dlamini, & J. September (eds), Masixhase abantwana bakwazi ukufunda nokubhala: Let us enable our children to read and write. Cape Town: 欧美福利100000 of the Western Cape.
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