Afrikaans

Dr Janien Linde

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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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E9, second floor, room 241

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018 299 1491

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084 823 8589

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Janien.linde@nwu.ac.za

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Prof Phil van Schalkwyk

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:36:42 +0000

Prof Phil van Schalkwyk BELINDA BANTHAM Mon, 10/31/2022 - 14:36

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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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Mari-Leigh Pienaar

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Mari-Leigh

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After completing my BA degree, I enrolled for a BA Honours degree in Language Practice at the NWU’s Vanderbijlpark Campus, which I obtained with distinction. I then enrolled for my masters degree at the same institution, under the supervision of Dr Ia Esterhuizen and Prof. Haidee Kruger. The dissertation sprouted from two subjects that I completed in my Honours degree, namely editing and text linguistics combined with my own curiosity as to how writers and readers interact through written discourse; more specifically study guides. In this dissertation, titled Die leesbaarheid van akademiese tekste: ’n tekslinguistiese ondersoek (translated as: The readability of academic texts: a text linguistic investigation), my main focus was on establishing which elements (both textual and meta-textual) play a role as far as readability and accessibility are concerned and which of these elements have an impact on the establishment of a successful reader-writer relationship in tertiary study guides. I received my MA degree cum laude in September 2009.

Because of my interest in Language Practice, I worked as a freelance language practitioner from 2004, and in 2005 I became one of the editors, proofreaders and translators at Carpe Diem Media (book division). In April 2005, I was appointed as one of the text editors and proofreaders at Maksiman magazine, and I also did freelance editing for Finesse magazine.

I was appointed as a part-time lecturer in Afrikaans Linguistics and Language Practice at the NWU Vaal in January 2006, where I also coordinated Babel (the School of Languages’ informal training centre for senior students in the Language Practice subject group). Between May 2006 and February 2008, I helped to develop Babel into a thriving professional language agency, now known as CTrans, which specialises in translation and academic editing. In January 2013, I resigned as manager of CTrans to pursue an academic career.

I am currently busy with a PhD in Applied Linguistics. My focus is on the possibilities and challenges that multilingualism bring to the Afrikaans Academic Literacy classroom. My research interest continues to lie in the development of students’ academic literacies and the perceptions that students have about written discourse.

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