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CV for Professor Corinne Sandwith 225 Klip Street
Muckleneuk
Pretoria
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012 420 2617
Personal Details
Name: Corinne Lynette Sandwith
Date of Birth: 9 April 1970
Nationality: South African
Education
2006 PhD in South African literary-culture.
Title: Culture in the Public Sphere: Recovering a Tradition of Radical Cultural- Political Debate in
South Africa, 1938-1960. University of KwaZulu-Natal.
1993 MA in South African Literature. Title: Olive Schreiner’s Undine: A Colonial Novel? University of
Natal.
1991 BA (Honours) in English (cum laude). University of Natal.
Positions
June 2014 – to date Associate Professor, English Department, University of Pretoria.
2008 – June 2014 Senior Lecturer in English Studies, UKZN.
2000 – 2007 Lecturer in English Studies, University of Natal and UKZN.
1994 – 1999 Contract Lecturer in English Studies, University of Natal.
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Publications
1. Books
2014 World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa.
Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.
2. Edited Books
2011 Africa South: Viewpoints 1956-1961. Edited by MJ Daymond and Corinne
Sandwith. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.
3. Peer-Reviewed Articles, Conference Proceedings and Reviews
2018 Discourses of Peace, Discourses of Power: Revisiting the Bantu Men’s Social Centre. Artisans
de Paix (forthcoming).
History by Paratext: Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka. Journal of Southern African Studies 44(3), pp.
471-490.
The Appearance of the Book: Towards a History of the Reading Lives and Worlds of Black
South African Readers. English in Africa 45 No. 1 (April 2018): 11–38.
2016 The Idea of Reading in Early Twentieth Century South Africa. Journal of Southern
African Studies. 42(6): 1095-1108.
Frailties of the Flesh: Observing the Body in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple
Hibiscus. Research in African Literatures 47(1): 95-108.
2013 Material Things. Review Article: Andrew van der Vlies, ed. Print, Text and Book
Cultures in South Africa and Archie L Dick, The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and
Reading Cultures. Safundi 14(4): 443-453.
2013 ‘Yours for Socialism’: Communist Cultural Discourse in Early Apartheid South Africa.
Safundi 14(3): 283–306.
2010 Postcolonial Violence: Narrating South Africa, May 2008. Current Writing October
22(2): 60 – 82.
2009 ‘Entering the Territory of Incitement’: Oppositionality and Africa South. Social Dynamics
35(1): 123 – 136.
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2008 The Work of Cultural Criticism: Re-visiting The South African Opinion. Alternation 15(1): 38 –
70.
2008 Introduction. Co-written with Jabulani Mkhize and Shane Moran. Alternation 15(1): 1-10.
2006 Revolutionaries or Sell-Outs? African Intellectuals and The Voice of Africa, 1949-1952.
English in Africa 33(2): 67-89.
2005 Review of The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of the Pilgrim’s Progress by Isabel
Hofmeyr. Transformation 58: 106-108.
2004 Contesting a ‘Cult(ure) of Respectability’: Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Western
Cape, 1935-1950. Current Writing 16(2): 33–60.
2002 Dora Taylor: South African Marxist. English in Africa 29(2) October: 5-84.
1998 A Social Function for Literature? Two Women Critics and South African English Studies, 1939-
1948. Alternation 5(1): 169-190.
1998 The Moment of Trek: Literary and Political Criticism in the South African Periodical
Press, 1941-1947. Current Writing 10 (1):17-38.
1994 Schreiner versus Schreiner: A Contest of Value. Journal of Literary Studies 10(3): 359-372.
4. Chapters in Books
2017 The Banality of Violence: Reading the Daily Sun. In: Tracks and Traces of Violence: The
Representation and Memorialisation of Violence in Africa in Art, Literature and Anthropology.
ed. BIGSAS Workgroup Tracks and Traces of Violence. Berlin: Lit Verlag Dr. W. Hopf: 181-196.
2008 Revolutionaries or Sell-Outs? African Intellectuals and The Voice of Africa, 1949-1952. In:
Postcolonialism: South /African Perspectives. ed. Michael Chapman. Newcastle: Cambridge
Scholars Press: 61-83.
2005 The Importance of Being Educated: Strategies of an Urban Petit-Bourgeois Elite, 1935-1950.
In: African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective. ed. Steve Salm and Toyin Falola.
Rochester: Rochester University Press: 164-185.
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Conferences
1. International
2017 Discourses of Peace, Discourses of Power: Revisiting the Johanesburg Bantu Men’s
Social Centre. Peace Makers and Bridge Builders 19th C – 20th C. Université de La
Réunion. 20-21 October.
2017 Reading and Roaming the Racial City: R.R.R. Dhlomo and The Bantu World. Africa
and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies. African Literature
Association 43rd Annual Conference, Yale University, New Haven June 14-17.
2016 Mutable Mofolo: The History of a Multi-lingual Book. Print Culture and
Publishing in Africa Colloquium, Oxford Brookes University, UK, 13th September.
Mutable Mofolo: The History of a Multi-lingual Book. Languages of the Book. Society
of the History, Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2016. 18-22 July. Paris,
France.
2015 Reading Habits: Cultures of Reading and Criticism in 1940s South Africa. The
Generation and Regeneration of Books. Society of the History, Authorship, Reading
and Publishing (SHARP) 2015. 7-10 July. Longueuil, Montreal, Canada.
2011 Violence and its (Non-)Representations in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Tracks and
Traces of Violence Conference. 14 – 16 July. BIGSAS University of Bayreuth,
Germany.
2010 Postcolonial Violence: Narrating South Africa, May 2008. VII Iberian Congress of
African Studies, 9 – 11 September. Lisbon, Portugal.
2007 ‘Entering the Territory of Incitement’: Africa South and the Public Performance of
Dissent, 1956 – 1961. 14th Triennial Conference of the Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 17-22nd August. University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
2004 Revolutionaries or Sell-Outs? African intellectuals and The Voice of Africa, 1949 –
1952. 13th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature
and Language Studies, 4 – 9 August. Hyderabad, India.
2003 The Importance of Being Educated: Strategies of an Urban Petit-Bourgeois Elite,
1935-1950. Africa Conference, 28-30 March. University of Austin, Texas.
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2001 Culture and the Struggle: the Journalism, Criticism and Fiction of Dora Taylor. 12th
Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language
Studies. 9-14 July. Canberra, Australia.
2. Local
2018. The Women Reader/Writer in the African Press. Print Culture and Publishing in
Southern Africa 23-24 May. University of Pretoria.
2017 Reading and Roaming the Racial City: R.R.R. Dhlomo and The Bantu World.
Conferencing the City: City Studies at UP. University of Pretoria. 23 November.
2016 The Appearance of the Book: Early Twentieth-Century Black Reading Cultures in
South Africa. 4th Annual Book History and Print Culture Seminar. 23 May. University
of Pretoria, Pretoria.
2016 ‘Well-seasoned talks about this that or the other’: R. Roamer Esq. K.A. and the
stylistics of dissent. International Workshop on African Print Cultures, Maropeng 20-
22 June, Jointly hosted by the University of Witwatersrand and the University of
Michigan.
2015 Reading Habits: Cultures of Reading and Criticism in 1940s South Africa.
Colloquium on ‘Print Culture and Colonisation in Africa’. 28-29 May, Cape
Town. Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and University of Cape Town.
2009 Crime Stories, Refugee Stories. Crime Stories Colloquium, WISER. 10-11 June.
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
2005 Culture in the Public Sphere: Recovering a Tradition of Radical Cultural-Political Debate in South Africa, 1938 – 1960. AUETSA, 6-9 July. University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
2000 Writing about Writing: Black and White Literary Critics in the South African Periodical
Press. 19th Triennial Conference of the International Comparative Literature
Association. UNISA, July. Pretoria.
1999 ‘Too High a Price, even for Shakespeare’: Criticism and Politics in the Black Press,
South Africa 1935-1960. AUETSA, July. UNISA, Pretoria.
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1997 The Literary Moment of Trek: South African Literary Criticism in the Periodical Press.
AUETSA, July. University of the North, Pietersburg.
1997 Dissenting Voices? South African Women Critics and English Studies, 1939-1949.
Gender and Colonialism Conference, 13-15 January. University of the Western Cape.
1996 Genius or Neurotic?: Reading Olive Schreiner in the 1950s. AUETSA. 30 June -5
July. University of the Western Cape.
1995 Schreiner versus Schreiner: A Contest of Value. Interdisciplinary conference at the
Centre for Southern African Literary Studies, University of Durban-Westville. July.
Workshops, Lectures and Seminars
2016 Lecture on Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit. Third Year Law Students, University of
Pretoria.
2015 Lecture on Tsitsi Dangaremgba’s Nervous Conditions. Third Year Law Students,
University of Pretoria.
2014 Print, Reading, Book Culture and Debate in South Africa. Panel discussion with
Archie Dick and Isabel Hofmeyr. 26 September Jozi Book Fair, Central Johannesburg
College, Ellis Park Campus.
2014 Non-Racialism in South African Literature. Lecture given to English Department Staff
and Students at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth. 26
September.
2013 Cultural Debates in the Non-European Unity Movement. Paper presented at the
100th Anniversary Celebrations at of the Teachers’ League of South Africa and the
70th Anniversary Celebrations of the Unity Movement. Athlone, Cape Town. 16
December.
1994-2012 Numerous seminar presentations to the English Study Research Seminar Series,
Universities of Natal and KwaZulu-Natal.
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2011 Civility in Question: Cultural Debates in the Non-European Unity Movement.
Seminar presented at the History and African Studies Seminar, 14 September UKZN,
Durban.
2011 Africa South: Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1957-1961. Seminar presented with MJ
Daymond at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity, 15 February
UKZN, Durban.
2006 Culture in the Public Sphere: Recovering a Tradition of Radical Cultural-Political
Debate in South Africa. Institute of Liberal Arts Seminar, February. Emory
University, Atlanta.
2005 Contesting a ‘Cult(ure) of Respectability’: Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Western
Cape, 1935 – 1950. South African and Contemporary History Seminar. University
of the Western Cape.
2003 Conducted a series of workshops to train staff in web-based course development
1999 Seminar series on South African Literature (co-taught with Professor Michael
Chapman) at the University of Palacky, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
1998 Participant in Symposium on Academic Labour and Neo-Liberal Transformation of the
University, South Africa/USA, University of Natal-Durban (UND), Durban, South
Africa, June 24.
Research Collaboration
I am currently working on a special issue on the South African Short Story post-2000 to
be published by the Journal of Commonwealth Studies. This is a collaboration with
three colleagues in the English Department, UP.
I am one of a team of international researchers and collaborators who are participating
in a research and supervision project entitled ‘Minor Cosmopolitanisms’. The project,
jointly hosted by the University of Potsdam, Free University and the Humbolt
University in Berlin, brings together scholars working in India, the United States,
Canada, Europe and Australia.
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Part of an international team of researchers on Mellon-Funded Project, ‘Urban
Connections in African Popular Imaginaries’ with scholars from South Africa, Kenya and
the UK. Project Co-ordinator, Dr Lynda Gichanda Spencer.
One of a team of researchers from US, UK and South Africa focusing on ‘Print Cultures
in Africa’. The envisaged outcome is a Special Issue for international journal, Historical
Studies.
Leadership
2012 – 2013 Academic Leader for the Cluster of English Studies, Drama and Performance
Studies, and Media and Cultural Studies.
Administrative Experience
1998 – 2001 Member of the Faculty Schools Liaison Committee, UKZN.
2001 – 2004 Member of the Information Technology Faculty Committee, UKZN.
2003 – 2008 Co-ordinator of First-level English Course (500-550 students).
2003 – 2013 Co-ordinator of two second-level, one third-level and one postgraduate module, the
planning and co-ordination of the English Studies timetable and the co-ordination of
the English Programme website (UKZN).
2004 – 2005 Co-ordinator of the weekly research seminar in English Studies (UKZN).
2006-2007 School Representative: planning and implementation of electronic/on-line
Registration (UKZN).
2006 AUETSA conference UKZN organizing committee.
2012-2013 Chair of Postgraduate Proposal Committee tasked with vetting all new thesis
proposals in the Cluster (UKZN).
2014-2018 Member of the Postgraduate Committee (Humanities) at the University of Pretoria.
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2015-2018 Co-ordinator of Second Level English Course.
Teaching
1. Undergraduate
• Victorian literature
• Romanticism
• South African literature and culture
• African literature
• Colonial and Postcolonial writing
• Contemporary Film and American ‘New Journalism’; Introduction to Media and Cultural
Studies
2. Postgraduate
• Postmodernism
• South/African Literature
• Gender and Writing: covering key theoretical issues and writers including Simone de
Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, de Sade, Jean
Rhys, Herman Melville, EM Forster, Sylvia Plath, Olive Schreiner and Stevie Smith. Critical
Theory
Awards, Honours and Fellowships
2016 Winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Book Award (Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences).
Shortlisted for the National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (NHISS) award for
Non-Fiction Book.
University of Pretoria, Research Development Program (R50 000).
2015 Humanities Faculty Researcher of the Year Award, Languages Cluster
University of Pretoria.
University of Pretoria, Research Development Program (R50 000).
2011 Research Associate at the Centre for the Critical Study of Race and Identity (ccrri) at
University of KwaZulu-Natal.
2011 One of three South African academics who received funding to present research at Tracks
and Traces of Violence Conference, BIGSAS, University of Bayreuth.
2009 15 Years Long Service Award.
2008 Mellon Merit Award for Younger Scholars in the Humanities, UKZN (R30 000).
2007 National Research Foundation R40 000 (with project leader: Professor MJ Daymond)
2006 Post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study for Public Scholarship (CSPS) at Emory
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University, Atlanta, USA. ($15 500).
1997 Graduate Award, University of Natal (R10 000).
1993 NRF scholarship (R6000).
Postgraduate Supervision
• Completed: Numerous Honours Research Essays and 9 MAs.
• Completed MA degrees:
2010. Kathryn Gregerson. ‘Representing Women: Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography of Alice B
Toklas and Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body’ (UKZN).
2013. Fiona McGuigan. ‘Gendered Geographies and the Politics of Place: A Comparative
Reading of the Novels of Mariama Bâ and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’ (UKZN).
2013. Nandipha Sephuma. ‘The Difference Debate: The Politics of Feminist Literary Criticism
in South Africa’ (UKZN).
Kirsten Miller. ‘Writing Autism Inside-Out, Autism and Representation: A Critical Essay and a
Novel’ (UKZN, Co-supervised by Dr Kobus Moolman). (With Distinction).
Natasha King, ‘Bodylands: lnscriptions of the Body and Embodiment in the Novels of Lauren
Beukes’ (UKZN. Co-supervised by Prof Ileana Dimitriu).
2017. Nandi Weder. ‘Representations of urban social change in Vladislavic's
Johannesburg, Pamuk's Istanbul and Dalrymple's Delhi. (UP) With Distinction.
2017. Stephanie de Viliers. ‘Divinest Sense’: the construction of female madness and
the negotiation of female agency in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Jean Rhys’s Wide
Sargasso Sea, and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. (UP) With Distinction.
2018. Isabella Venter. “Our Readers”: Race and Gender Discourse in Popular Reading of
White English Speaking South African Women (1911 – 1919) (UP, Co-supervised with
Dr Lize Kriel) With Distinction.
2018. Michal-Marie Linden. ‘Narrating the 2015 ‘FeesMustFall’ movement:
Explanations, Contestations, and Forms of Meaning-Making in the Public Sphere’.
• Ongoing: I am currently supervising one MA and four PhD students.
• In 2011, I was supervisor and assessor for the Independent Study Project Component of the
international SIT Study Abroad Programme in Social and Political Transformation.
External Examining and Thesis Examination
• 2017 Appointed External Examiner for English Department, University of
Stellenbosch.
• 2016 Appointed External Examiner for English Department, University of Fort
Hare.
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• 2005 – 2009 Appointed External Examiner for Second-year Internet Studies Module,
UKZN.
• 2007 – 2009 Appointed External Examiner for First-Year History Module, UKZN.
I have acted as internal and external examiner for Masters and Doctoral theses in English Studies,
Historical Studies, Gender Studies, Music and Creative Writing at the following universities: UNISA,
Rhodes, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Stellenbosch, University of Johannesburg,
University of Fort Hare and UCT).
Scholarly Associations and Committees
2016-2017 Member of the African Literature Association (ALA)
2015-2016 Member of the Society of the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP).
1996-2007 Member of the Association of University English Teachers in South Africa
(AUETSA).
2001-2007 Member of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
(ACLALS).
2003-2007 Member of the executive editorial committee for Critical Arts.
2009 to 2017 Editorial Committee, Current Writing.
Community Service
2017 Organising Team for Tjo! Storyfest, 30th June-1st July, Mamelodi Campus, University of Pretoria. 2008-2018 Acted as reader for following journals: Current Writing, Critical Arts, Alternation, Journal of Education, South African Historical Journal, English Academy Review, the Nordic Journal of African Studies, Journal of Dutch Literature, English Studies in Africa, Scrutiny2, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studia Neophilologica, English in Africa and Research in African Literatures. I have also served as a reader for several manuscripts submitted to UKZN Press. 2011 Guest on Radio 2000, 2 February (Africa South: Viewpoints and Perspectives). 2010 With MJ Daymond, co-ordinated digitization project of materials in the journal Africa South. 2007 Ran weekly creative writing workshops with members of the Durban South community (Merebank, Lamontville and Wentworth). 2007 Contributing Scholar for Digital Imaging South Africa Project (DISA). 2003-2005 Member of the Executive Committee of Treatment Action Campaign, UKZN Branch.
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2002-2005 Judging panel for the annual Time of the Writer schools’ short story competition run by the Centre for Creative Arts, UKZN.
