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Janien

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Dr. Janien Linde is a senior lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University. She was appointed in January of 2015. She held a similar position at the University of Johannesburg during 2012 and 2013. She completed BA and BA Honours degrees Masters in Afrikaans and Dutch literature. She obtained a Master’s Degree (Cum Laude) in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature form the North-West University with a dissertation on cognitive narratology, friendship and eudaimonia in Die sneeuslaper (The snowsleeper) by Marlene van Niekerk. For this she received the Marius Jooste-medal for best MA-dissertation completed in the Subject Group Afrikaans and Dutch during 2014. Her PhD thesis (2018) in Linguistics and Literary Theory focussed on metamodernism, performativity and relationality in the oeuvre of Marlene van Niekerk. Her research interests include Afrikaans and Dutch poetry and prose, literary theory, comparative literature, post-postmodernism, posthumanism and postcritical reading strategies. In 2019 Linde spent 3 months in Antwerp, Belgium lecturing a Master-level course on Afrikaans literature. Linde has served on the review committee for the UJ Literary Prize, as well as on the executive committees of LASA (the Literary Association of South Africa) and of the ALV (the Afrikaans Literary Association) of which she is currently the secretary. She is actively involved in the Afrikaans literary community, presenting lectures at reading groups and book clubs, and reviewing academic papers and literary texts.

Her interest in narrative identity and performance springs from the research done for her PhD.

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Prof Phil van Schalkwyk

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Phil van Schalkwyk completed an MA in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature, Cum Laude, at the PU for CHE. In 2004 he obtained a PhD in General Theory of Literature at the North-West University.

Mainly active in the field of Comparative Literature, his research focuses on rhetorical constructions and relationality in Afrikaans, South African and Dutch prose and poetry, with emphasis on the writings of Eben Venter.

He delivered papers at conferences in South Africa, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and the USA, and published articles in accredited journals, including Dutch Crossing, Critical Arts, Journal of Humanities, Stilet, Literator, Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, South African Journal of Linguistics. He contributed chapters to books such as: Perspektief en profiel; Verbintenis en venster: die Nederlandstalige letterkunde van aanvang tot hede; Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries (2013); Beyond the Threshold: Explorations of Liminality in Literature (2007); and Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (2013).

He first obtained an NRF rating in 2014, and in 2019 his rating was successfully renewed (C2). In the same year he was awarded the South African Academy’s Esther Greeff prize for a Journal of Humanities article (2017) in which he re-evaluates the novel Wolf, wolf in the context of Eben Venter’s oeuvre.

Prof Van Schalkwyk has been promoter and supervisor at NWU for several successfully completed postgraduate studies. One of his students, Dr Janien Linde, was awarded the Marius Jooste medal for her MA dissertation (Cum Laude, 2014).

From 2017 till present he has been co-editor-in-chief of Literator.

In 2018 and 2019 he was acting director of the Research Unit Languages and Literature in the South African Context, and in June 2021 he was appointed for a term of five years as director of this entity.

He presented his inaugural lecture in October 2021.

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Potchefstroom Campus, E9, first floor, 108A

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018 299 1555

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Philip van der Merwe

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Philip

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Philip van der Merwe (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the North-West University in South Africa. He teaches German literature and German as a foreign language. His research interests include film studies, literary and film theory, and contemporary literature. He is the co-editor of A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam (2022) and has published on the fiction of E.L. Doctorow and Hans-Ulrich Treichel. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Literator and Acta Germanica.

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Johannes Seema

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Johannes

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Ngaka Johannes Seema ke Morupedi e moholo Lefapheng la Sekolo sa Dipuo Yunivesithing ya Leboya Bophirima, khemphaseng ya Vanderbijlpark. O na le Lengolo la Bongaka leo a le amohetseng ho tswa Yunivesithing ya Johannesburg. Ka Lengolo leo la hao, bopaki ke hore o itshetlehile dingolweng tsa Maafrika, haholo dingolweng tsa Basotho e leng dingolwa tsa Sesotho. Dingolweng tsena tsa Sesotho, o thahaselletse haholo semelong sa dingolwa jwalo ka ha dingolwa e le seipone sa setjhaba. Thahasello e ntse e le teng ho Diqatjwa tsa Basotho, e leng Neanotaba.

O ile dikhonferenseng tsa barutehi, dikontinenteng tse fapaneng le dinaheng tse fapaneng. O badile dipampiri ka hara naha, kontinenteng ya Afrika mmoho le dinaheng tse mose ho mawatle. Ka ntle ho naheng ya Afrika Borwa, o etetse dinaheng tsa Afrika ho ya bala dipampiri dinaheng tse kang Botswana, Malawi le Namibia. Dinaheng tse mose, o badile dipampiri dinaheng tse kang: Honolulu, Hawaii; New Delhi, India; Czestochowa, Poland le Lisbon, Portugal.

O phatlaladitse diathekele dijenaleng tse hlwauweng ka mokgwa wa akereditheishene. Bophatlalatsi ba hae bo dijenaleng tse ka hara naha le mose. Mothating wa jwale, ke motataisi wa baithuti ba mangolo a Masetase le Bongaka. Ke mohlahlobi diyunivesithing tsa naheng baithuting ba etsang mangolo a Masetase le Bongaka. Ka nqa e nngwe, ke mohlahlobi wa diathekele tse ngoletsweng dijenale tse hlwauweng e le tsa akereditheishene. O thusa le baphatlalatsi ba dibuka ho ba balla dimanyusikeripote. O boetse o thusa matitjhere ka ho a tataisa bakeng sa ho manolla dingolwa, le ho a thusa ka Kerama ya Sesotho.

Ngaka Seema o na le tlhase ya bongodi. O phatlaladitse pokello ya dipale tse kgutshwanyane, e leng Bophelo ke Makelebetlwa. O boetse o phatlaladitse pokello ya dithothokiso eo lebitso la yona e leng Sephallane sa Maphalla. Haufinyane o tla be a phatlalatsa Nobele.

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Philip van der Merwe

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Philip

van der Merwe

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Philip van der Merwe is a senior lecturer in the School of Languages in the Subject Group: German at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) in South Africa. He has published on the fiction of Hans-Ulrich Treichel and E.L. Doctorow. He teaches German literature as well as German as a foreign language. Recent publications include the chapter “The Dialectic of Life and Death in the ‘Garden Verses’ of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden” in the book Song of Death in Paradise: Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film edited by Sabine Planka and Feryal Cubucku and published by Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington (ISBN: 978-1-7936-2588-5 (Hardback); ISBN: 978-1-7936-2589-2 (eBook)); the article “(Dis)continuities in Bond: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the 007 films” in Journal of Literary Studies. 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2018.1507162 and the chapter „Die Romantik der ‚zweiten Kindheit‘ in Hans-Ulrich Treichels Endlich Berliner! (2011)“ in the book Berlin: Bilder einer Metropole in erzählenden Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche published by Königshausen & Neumann (ISBN: 978-3-8260-6305-3). The title of his PhD dissertation (2011) is Fictional Worlds and Focalisation in Works by Hermann Hesse and E.L. Doctorow.

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Van der Merwe, P. 2020. The Dialectic of Life and Death in the ‘Garden Verses’ of the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden. In Planka, S. & Cubucku, F. eds. Song of Death in Paradise: Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film. Washington D.C.: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington. ISBN: 978-1-7936-2588-5 (Hardback); ISBN: 978-1-7936-2589-2 (eBook).

Van der Merwe, P. 2018. Die Romantik der ‚zweiten Kindheit‘ in Hans-Ulrich Treichels Endlich Berliner! (2011) (In Planka, S. ed. Berlin: Bilder einer Metropole in erzählenden Medien für Kinder und Jugendliche/Berlin: Recent Images of a Metropolis in Narrative Media for Children and Young Adults. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.) www.koenigshausen-neumann.de ISBN 978-3-8260-6305

Van der Merwe, P & Bekker, I. 2018. (Dis)continuities in Bond: A Bakhtinian Analysis of the 007 films. Journal of Literary Studies, (34)3, September.

Van der Merwe, P. & Bekker, I. 2015. E.L. Doctorow’s fictional autobiography: World’s Fair (1985) as a carnivalesque Bildungsroman, Literator 36(2), Art. #1181, 9 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit. v36i2.1181

Van der Merwe, P., 2014, ‘‘Everything is autobiographical’: Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s idiolect in Lost (1999)’, Literator 35(2), Art. #1151, 9 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v35i2.1151

Van der Merwe, P. & Sepp, A. 2013. „Trugreisen“. Mögliche Welten und narrative Unzuverlässigkeit in Hans-Ulrich Treichel’s Der Papst, den ich gekannt habe (2007), Acta Germanica: German Studies in Africa (41), 129-138.

Van der Merwe, P. 2007. Hard Times as Bodie: the allegorical functionality in E.L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times (1960), Literator 28(2) Aug., 49-73.

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