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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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Philip van der Merwe

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:29:20 +0000

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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

BELINDA BANTHAM — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:38:48 +0000

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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

BELINDA BANTHAM — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:37:11 +0000

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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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Ronel Wasserman

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My research career started in 2009 when I began compiling the Historical Corpus of South African English, consisting of personal and business letters, news reportage, fiction and non-fiction from all over the country, and spanning from the 1820s to the present. I became more and more interested in the grammatical and semantic changes that occurred within this unique variety of English over time.

Based on evidence from the Historical Corpus, my PhD focused on the development of the modal system (modal and quasi-modal verbs) of South African English across the 19^th and 20^th centuries, both in terms of frequency changes and macro- and micro-semantic changes. The study revealed that South African English modality evolved along different lines than other native varieties of English in the world, largely owing to the influence of extensive contact with Afrikaans.

In 2012 I was presented with the first Braj Kachru Student Award at The 18^th Annual Conference of the International Association of World Englishes (IAWE), co-hosted by the City University of Hong Kong, and Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China, for a conference paper I delivered on some preliminary findings from the study.

Currently, I am conducting comparative studies in modality between historical corpora of Afrikaans and Black South African English, to better understand the role of language contact in shaping language within the complex linguistic setting of South Africa. I am also working toward expanding the historical corpus and extending my research into other domains of variation within the verb phrase.

I have postgraduate students working on typological comparisons between the modal systems of Afrikaans, Dutch and English, as well as comparative authorship attribution within the field of corpus stylistics.

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