Ms Rizwana Latha, Ms Brenda Thoka, Ms Mante Mphahlele, Dr Naomi Nkealah

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1 Unisa College of Human Sciences Department of English Studies 2018 master s and doctoral research focus areas Research focus area Academic literacy and multidisciplinary language support Academic staff members Dr Clifford Ndlangamandla, Ms Thuli Shandu, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo, Ms Annette Greyvensteyn, Ms Kgabo Maphoto, Mr Ntshimane Mohale African literature African-American literature African women s writing Ageing studies American literature Autobiography (self-writing) Black Atlantic Studies and Revisionist Migrant Cultural transnationalism in the wake of Globalization Children s literature Christianity / Religion and literature Comparative literature Computer-mediated communication (CMC) Content and Language Ms Rizwana Latha, Ms Princess Bembe, Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto, Prof Fetson Kalua, Prof Sope Maithufi, Dr Mzukisi Lento, Ms Brenda Thoka, Prof Lesibana Rafapa, Dr Naomi Nkealah, Ms Louise Nortje, Dr Raphael D Abdon Dr Mzukisi Lento Ms Rizwana Latha, Ms Brenda Thoka, Ms Mante Mphahlele, Dr Naomi Nkealah Dr Antoinette Pretorius Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto, Dr Antoinette Pretorius, Dr Raphael D Abdon Dr Eileen Donaldson, Mrs Marietta Bettman, Ms Farah Ismail, Ms Annette Greyvensteyn Prof Lesibana Rafapa Dr Allyson Kreuiter (English-French), Ms Claudia Fratini (English- Italian), Mr Reinhardt Fourie (English-Afrikaans), Ms Annette Greyvensteyn Prof Bernard Nchindila

2 Integrated Learning (CLIL) Creative writing Decoloniality Critical discourse analysis/ critical linguistics Cultural studies Development education Diaspora and literary-historical study of representations of genocide in African literature Digital humanities Discourse analysis Embodied memory Embodiment and phenomenology English as medium of instruction in multilingual societies Prof Lesibana Rafapa. Ms Claudia Fratini, Dr Raphael D Abdon Ms Mante Mphahlele Prof Lesibana Rafapa, Dr Allyson Kreuiter, Mr Andy Carolin, Dr Antoinette Pretorius, Prof Fetson Kalua Prof Bernard Nchindila, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka Prof Maurice Vambe Dr Clifford Ndlangamandla Prof Jessica Murray Ms Louise Nortje Prof Bernard Nchindila, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Prof Pinky Makoe, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka,, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo, Mr Ntshimane Mohale English language studies Dr Ruth Scheepers, Dr Clifford Ndlangamandla, Ms Thuli Shandu, Ms Brenda Thoka, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka,, Ms Bernice Badal, Ms Kgabo Maphoto (Limited supervisory capacity in this area at doctoral level English language teacher education Prof Bernard Nchindila, Dr Clifford Ndlangamandla, Ms Thuli Shandu, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka, Dr Tebogo Kekana, Ms Bernice Badal, Ms Kgabo Maphoto English teaching/english in education Ms Rizwana Latha, Ms Princess Bembe, Dr Ruth Scheepers, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Prof Bernard Nchindila, Ms Thuli Shandu, Prof Pinky Makoe, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka, Prof Chaka Chaka, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo, Ms Bernice Badal, Ms Annette Greyvensteyn, Ms Kgabo Maphoto Fantasy Literature Ms Claudia Fratini; Ms Farah Ismail (particularly space in fantasy literature), Ms Sanjana Singh

3 Female writers of the Romantic and Victorian Period Feminist speculative fiction Feminist theory Folklore, fairy tales and myth Food studies Gender and HIV / and migration / and language impact Gender studies and women s writing Gothic fiction Harlem Renaissance Historiography and literary history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Natal; iconography and representation of the Irish wolfhound in text and visual media, c present Horror, form and television Language and gender Language and power Language, media and technology Dr Eileen Donaldson, Ms Annette Greyvensteyn (Romanticism) Dr Eileen Donaldson, Dr Allyson Kreuiter, Ms Claudia Fratini, Mrs MC Bettman Prof Jessica Murray, Ms Mante Mphahlele, Dr Allyson Kreuiter, Dr Naomi Nkealah, Dr Antoinette Pretorius, Prof Fetson Kalua Dr Eileen Donaldson; Ms Farah Ismail, Ms Annette Greyvensteyn, Ms Margaret Steyn, Ms Claudia Fratini Dr Antoinette Pretorius Ms Nomsa Zindela Greg Graham-Smith, Ms Princess Bembe, Prof Jessica Murray, Prof Sope Maithufi, Dr Eileen Donaldson, Dr Allyson Kreuiter, Ms Sanjana Singh, Dr Antoinette Pretorius, Dr Raphael D Abdon, Ms Margaret Steyn, Prof Fetson Kalua, Dr Naomi Nkealah Dr Allyson Kreuiter Dr Julie Pridmore, Ms Margaret Steyn (Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking), Historical Biography Ms Sanjana Singh Language ideologies and power Prof Pinky Makoe, Language, literacies and identity Language socialisation Language and social media Literacy in ESL Prof Pinky Makoe,, Ms Bernice Badal Prof Pinky Makoe, Dr Josephine Alexander, Ms Thuli Shandu Prof Bernard Nchindila, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo

4 Literature and language Ms Thuli Shandu, Mr Reckson Baloyi, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo, Ms Bernice Badal, Ms Annette Greyvensteyn Literature/language instruction Ms Nomsa Zindela, Ms Bernice Badal Literary reception studies Literary representations of terrorism & racial profiling in popular culture Literary theory Magical Realism Medieval literature, the romance genre, postcolonial readings of medieval and early modern literature, Chaucer. Mobile assisted language learning (MALL) Modernism Multilingualism Ms Claudia Fratini, Ms Margaret Steyn Greg Graham-Smith, Mr Marinus van Niekerk, Prof Kgomotso Masemola, Dr Lida Kruger, Dr Allyson Kreuiter, Prof Fetson Kalua, Dr Antoinette Pretorius, Dr Naomi Nkealah Ms Farah Ismail; Prof Sope Maithufi, Prof Fetson Kalua Ms Retha Knoetze, Ms Thuli Shandu Dr Allyson Kreuiter, Mrs Marietta Bettman, Dr Greg Graham- Smith, Ms Claudia Fratini, Ms Louise Nortje, Prof Lesibana Rafapa Dr Clifford Ndlangamandla, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo, Dr Josephine Alexander Online learning (and mobile learning) Prof Bernard Nchindila, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo, Prof Chaka Chaka, Ms Thuli Shandu Onomastics Poetry Popular culture Ms Nomsa Zindela, Dr Josephine Alexander Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto,, Dr Allyson Kreuiter (particularly poets of World War I), Ms Claudia Fratini; Ms Louise Nortje (Modernist Poetry), Prof Lesibana Rafapa, Dr Antoinette Pretorius (South African poetry by women), Dr Naomi Nkealah (African Women s Poetry), Dr Raphael D Abdon Greg Graham-Smith, Prof Sope Maithufi, Dr Eileen Donaldson,

5 Ms Brenda Thoka, Mrs Marietta Bettman, Ms Claudia Fratini, Ms Farah Ismail, Ms Sanjana Singh; Ms Louise Nortje, Dr Antoinette Pretorius, Dr Lida Kruger Postmodern drama and theatre Post colonialism Programme evaluation Psychoanalytical readings of fantastic fiction Queer theory Reading and writing skills (education) Reception theory Renaissance writing Representations of violence in South African literature Science fiction Sociolinguistics Dr Lida Kruger Prof Fetson Kalua, Dr Rangarirai Alfred Musvoto, Prof Sope Maithufi, Prof Lesibana Rafapa, Dr Raphael D Abdon Ms Nomsa Zindela Dr Eileen Donaldson Prof Jessica Murray, Dr Greg Graham-Smith, Mr Andy Carolin, Dr Antoinette Pretorius, Dr Naomi Nkealah Ms Nomsa Zindela, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Mr Reckson Baloyi, Dr Ntombi Mohlabi-Tlaka, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo Ms Claudia Fratini, Ms Margaret Steyn Prof Jessica Murray, Dr Naomi Nkealah Prof Deirdre Byrne (seconded to Institute of Gender Studies), Prof David Levey, Dr Eileen Donaldson, Ms Brenda Thoka, Ms Claudia Fratini, Dr Allyson Kreuiter, Ms Sanjana Singh Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Dr Josephine Alexander, Prof Chaka Chaka, Ms Bernice Badal, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo South African Fantasy Literature South African literature Space and place in literature Systemic functional linguistics TEFL Ms Farah Ismail, Dr Antoinette Pretorius Prof Sope Maithufi, Dr Mzukisi Lento (1950s and 1960s especially), (autobiography and fiction), Prof Lesibana Rafapa (migration in particular; folklore in written texts; post-apartheid fiction), Mrs Marietta Bettman (playwrights), Ms Mante Mphahlele, Prof Fetson Kalua (postapartheid literature), Mr Reinhardt Fourie (specifically comparative readings of English and Afrikaans texts): Ms Louise Nortje (Poetry), Mr Andy Carolin (Race, gender, sexuality and identity in post-apartheid literature), Dr Antoinette Pretorius (bodies and identity in post-apartheid fiction), Ms Mante Mphahlele (Black South African Women s Writing: Eskia Mphahlele), Dr Naomi Nkealah (South Africa Women s Writing) Dr Allyson Kreuiter, Ms Barbara Janari Dr Clifford Ndlangamandla Prof Bernard Nchindila, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Prof Chaka

6 Chaka, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo TESOL Text analysis (Trans)cultural memory Translanguaging Trauma and testimony Twentieth century literature Victorian literature Virtual and immersive learning Prof Brenda Spencer, Prof Mirriam Lephalala, Prof Bernard Nchindila, Ms Thuli Shandu, Ms Brenda Thoka, Dr Josephine Alexander,, Ms Vivienne Hlatshwayo (Limited supervisory capacity in this area at doctoral level) Dr Josephine Alexander, Prof Pinky Makoe Prof Jessica Murray Allyson Kreuiter, Mrs Marietta Bettman, Ms Claudia Fratini Ms Farah Ismail, Dr Allyson Kreuiter World War II Literature and Memory Language and culture Ms Claudia Fratini Baloyi MR