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Name: Ronit Frenkel
Location: B Ring 719 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Department of English Staff, Rated Researchers听 Staff Members
Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 2553
Email:听ronitf@uj.ac.za
About Prof. Ronit Frenkel
Ronit Frenkel is a Professor of English at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg and the editor of the pan-African journal,听The Thinker. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies from the 欧美福利100000 of Arizona and an M.A. in African Literature from Wits. She mostly works on contemporary South African Literary and Cultural Studies. She also has a strong interest in African feminisms, public cultures, the Indian Ocean and transnational connectivity.
Being interdisciplinary in orientation, Ronit鈥檚 work falls at the intersection of Cultural Studies, African Literature and Identity based critical theory.听 Her book publications include听Reconsiderations. South African Indian Fiction and the Making of Race in Postcolonial Culture听(Unisa Press, 2010) and听Traversing Transnationalism: the horizons of cultural and literary studies听(Rodopi Press, 2011) with David Watson (Uppsala) and Pier Paolo Frassinelli (UJ). She has just completed a larger interdisciplinary project that focuses on South African cultural production between 2012-2022, in an attempt to understand South African cultural formations after Marikana. Her current work examines postcolonial modernisms and the relationship between Africa and the Americas as seen through a literary lens. Ronit likes to think of herself as an itinerant thinker and books as a form of travelling magic.
Some of her recent publications include:
鈥溾��, with Leila Hall and Andy Carolin, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Autumn) 2024, 20-19.
鈥溾��, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 53, No. 1, (Spring) 2022, 1-11.
鈥�.鈥澨�English Studies in Africa听64, 1-2 (2021):212-222.
鈥溾��, with Pamila Gupta.听Social Dynamics听45, 2 (2019): 175 -182.
鈥�.鈥澨�English Studies in Africa听62,1 (2019): 70 -80.
鈥溾��, with Andy Carolin.听African Studies听78,4 (2019): 510 -526.
鈥溾��,听Feminist Theory听20, 2 (2019) 171 -184.
鈥溾��, with Pamila Gupta,听听Feminist Theory听20, 2, (2019) 123 -132.