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Name: Lucy Valerie Graham
Location: B Ring 717 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: 0115592716
Email:听lvgraham@uj.ac.za
About Prof. Lucy Graham
Lucy Valerie Graham is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg. She has a doctorate in English literature from the 欧美福利100000 of Oxford, and MA, BA Honours, and BA degrees from the university currently known as Rhodes.听Her first monograph,听听(2012), was published by Oxford 欧美福利100000 Press. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and is working on听two new monographs, on J.M. Coetzee and gender, and one entitled 鈥淧ost-Apartheid Dissonance鈥�, about the cultural politics of post-鈥渞ainbow nation鈥� South Africa. She is co-editor, with Andrew van der Vlies, of the听(2023).听Her research interests include South African and African literature and culture, interdisciplinary studies, and debates on intersectionality and decoloniality. Her new work includes a focus on ecocriticism, including cultural rights and the environment.
In 2013-14 she was a Fulbright Scholar at New York 欧美福利100000, where she taught courses in the English Department. At NYU she also organised a听听in 2014 on 鈥溾�� (outputs available in the journal听: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies). In 2017 she was project manager of听, for which she received a British Academy Grant. In April 2018 she toured universities in the US with a group of students from the 欧美福利100000 of the Western Cape who presented on 鈥�.鈥� In May-June 2022 she was in Brazil by invitation to present in a series of seminars and events on 鈥淒ecolonising the arts and social sciences.鈥� In December 2024 she was invited to give a keynote address in an AHRC-funded workshop at Durham Law School on 鈥溾��. In 2025 she presented a paper at the 欧美福利100000 of Edinburgh鈥檚 Centre of African Studies Conference on , and a paper entitled 鈥淔rom the Mountain to the Sea: Cultural Rights v Extractivism鈥� in seminars at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
Publications:
Monographs:
, Oxford 欧美福利100000 Press, 2012.
Articles in peer-reviewed accredited journals:
Forthcoming:
鈥淟ewis Nkosi and the Politics of Pen鈥�, , 2025.
鈥淧an-Africanism Resurgent? The Rise of PASMA at the 欧美福利100000 of the Western Cape鈥�, with Xolani Zekani, , 2025
Published:
鈥�,鈥� with Ntokozo Wandile Mbokazi, The Thinker,听 Quarter 1 2025.
鈥�.鈥� Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa. June 2024.
““, with Khanyisile Mbongwa, Safundi: Journal of South African and American Studies, Vol. 23. 2022.
鈥溾��, Research in African Literatures, Spring 2022.
鈥溾��, Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, June 2022.
鈥溾��,听Journal of Literary Studies, June 2022.
鈥溾��,听Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, December 2020.
鈥�‘鈥�,听Safundi: Journal of South African and American Studies, Special issue edited by Rita Barnard, 2020.
鈥溾��,听Safundi: Journal of South African and American Studies, April 2020.
鈥淎 captured occupation?: On NGOs, accountability and grassroots movements鈥�,听Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, June 2018.
鈥溾赌�,听Scrutiny2, 2017.
鈥溾��,听Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, December 2016.
Introduction, as guest editor, special issue on 鈥淪outh Africa After Two Decades of Democracy鈥�,听Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 18 Issue 6, 2016.
鈥溾��,听Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol 18. Issue 6, 2016.
鈥溾赌樷��,听Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East听(Duke 欧美福利100000), Vol. 36. No. 2, 2016.
鈥溾赌樷��, with Hugh Macmillan,听Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, July 2016.
鈥溾赌�‘鈥�,听Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, December 2014.
鈥溾赌楤ucks Without Hair鈥� and 鈥楤ullet Points鈥�: Social and Metacommentary in Justin Cartwright鈥檚 In Every Face I Meet鈥�, with Andrea Thorpe,听Journal of Commonwealth Literature, March 2014, vol.49. no. 1 47-62.
鈥淭he Importance of Confronting a Colonial, Patriarchal and Racist Past in Addressing Post-apartheid Sexual Violence鈥�,听African Safety Promotion, Volume 11, No. 2, December 2013.
鈥淭he 鈥楪reat Coloured Question鈥� and the Cosmopolitan: Fiction, History and Politics in David鈥檚 Story鈥�, with Hugh Macmillan,听Safundi: The Journal of American and South African Studies, Special Issue on 鈥淶o毛 Wicomb: The Cape and the Cosmopolitan鈥�, 12.3&4, 2011: 331-347.
鈥�,鈥� District 9: A Roundtable,听Safundi: The Journal of American and South African Studies, 11.1 (2010): 155-175.
鈥淐onsequential Changes鈥�: Daphne Rooke鈥檚 Mittee in America and South Africa鈥�,听Safundi: The Journal of American and South African Studies, 10.1, 2009: 43-58.
鈥淏aby Tshepang and post-apartheid narratives鈥�,听Scrutiny2, 13.1, 2008.
鈥淩eimagining the Cave: Gender, Land and Imperialism in Olive Schreiner鈥檚 Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland,鈥澨�English Studies in Africa, 50.1, 2007: 25-40.
鈥溾��,听Journal of Southern African Studies, 29.2, 2003: 433-444.
鈥淎 Hidden Side to the Story鈥�: Reading Rape in Recent South African Literature鈥�,听Journal of Post-Colonial Writing, 24.1&2, 2002: 9-24.
鈥淵es, I Am Giving Him Up鈥�: Sacrificial Responsibility in J.M. Coetzee鈥檚 Disgrace鈥�,听Scrutiny2, 7.2, 2002: 4-15.
Book chapters:
鈥淩ereading Mating Birds鈥�, in , eds. Henrichsen Dag, Astrid Starck, Basel: Basler Afrika, 2021.
鈥溾赌楥onsequential Changes鈥�: Daphne Rooke鈥檚 Mittee in America and South Africa鈥�,听, ed. Andrew van der Vlies, Wits 欧美福利100000 Press, 2012.
鈥淭extual Transvestism: The Female Voices of J.M. Coetzee鈥�,听 ed. Jane Poyner, Ohio 欧美福利100000 Press, 2006.
鈥溾赌楤athing Area 鈥� for Whites Only鈥� : Reading Prohibitive Signs and 鈥淏lack Peril鈥� in Mating Birds鈥�,听, ed. Lindy Stiebel, Rodopi, 2005, and Wits 欧美福利100000 Press, 2006.
鈥淩eading the Unspeakable: Rape in J.M. Coetzee鈥檚 Disgrace鈥�, Versions/ Subversions, Published Conference Proceedings, Conference on African Literature, Berlin, Germany, May 2002. Rodopi 2005.
Lewis Nkosi, World Writers in English, Thomson Gale, 2003.
J.M. Coetzee, World Writers in English, Thomson Gale, 2003.