Ashleigh Harris
Professor at Department of English
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- +46 18 471 12 52
- E-mail:
- ashleigh.harris@engelska.uu.se
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- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 L
- Postal address:
- Box 527
751 20 Uppsala - Available:
- Torsdagar 13-14
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Ashleigh Harris is Professor of English Literature. Her research interests are African literature, book and print history, literary ephemera and metadata. She is currently the primary investigator of the research project 'African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA)', which has received Advanced Grant funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Grant agreement No: 101097763. See almedaresearch.org for more information.
Biography
Biographical information
Academic qualifications
BA Witwatersrand (1996); BA (Hons) Witwatersrand (1997); PhD Witwatersrand (2002)
Current and upcoming academic appointments
March 2021 – Present: Full Professor, Department of English, Uppsala University.
June 2019 – 31 May 2022: Research Associate, School of Literature, Languages and Media, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
January 2022 – July 2022: Research Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, South Africa.
November 2022 – present: Honorary Professor, Rhodes University, South Africa.
Publications
Recent publications
- The Literary Metadata of African Little and Popular Magazines (2024)
- The locations and orientations of South African literature (2022)
- Early Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu Novels as World Literature (2022)
- Communal Intellection and Individualism in the African Novel (2022)
- ‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’ (2021)
All publications
Articles
- Communal Intellection and Individualism in the African Novel (2022)
- ‘The Diary of a Country in Crisis’ (2021)
- African Street Literature (2020)
- Hot Reads, Pirate Copies, and the Unsustainability of the Book in Africa’s Literary Future (2019)
- Plastic Form and the Extro- and Emergent Versions of Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother (2018)
- "The island is not a story in itself" (2018)
- Introduction: African Street Literatures and the Global Publishing Go-Slow (2018)
- Awkward Form and Writing the African Present (2014)
- The Fathers’ Dark Triumph (2013)
- The Danish African (2013)
- An Awkward Silence (2012)
- Unruly Pedagogies; Migratory Interventions (2012)
- "Until Time Makes Him White" (2009)
- The ambiguities of reading (2009)
- "An Ingenious Tenderness" (2007)
- Introduction (2007)
- Accountability, Acknowledgement and the Ethics of 'Quilting' in Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull (2006)
- The Spectral Atlantic (2006)
- "If she hollers/Let her go" (2005)
- Toni Morrison and Yvonne Vera (2004)
- From Suffragist to Apologist (2003)
- Speaking the "Truth by Dissembling" (2000)
Books
- Afropolitanism and the Novel (2019)
- South and North (2018)
- African Street Literature (2018)
- Unruly Pedagogies; Migratory Interventions (2012)
- Beyond Nationalism (2007)
- New Perspectives on Zimbabwean and Rhodesian Writing, 1890-2007: Special Double-Issue of English Studies in Africa (Autumn, Winter 2007) (2007)
Chapters
- The locations and orientations of South African literature (2022)
- Early Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu Novels as World Literature (2022)
- Locating Chronic Violence (2018)
- Introduction (2018)
- Afropolitanism and Unusable Global Space (2017)
- Afropolitan style and unusable global spaces (2016)
- Facing/Defacing Robert Mugabe (2015)
- What revolt in the postcolony today? (2011)
- Discourses of Dirt and Disease in Operation Murambatsvina (2008)
- "The home I never knew I had" (2005)
Conferences
- Literary form and the poetics of hustling in an African city (2016)
- Decelerating fiction: slow violence in four African novels (2016)
- Concurrent Whiteness (2015)
- Mutation and the African Present (2014)
- Between ideals and reality (2014)
- African fiction and the politics of global publishing, literary awards and creative writing programs (2014)
- Terrorism and the Uncanny in J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg (2012)
- Close Encounters with Global Whiteness in Apartheid Southern Africa (2012)
- Militarising Youth (2011)
- Scandinavian Exceptionalism and the Land Redistribution Campaign in Zimbabwe (2010)
- Estranging the Nation (2010)
- The Social Value of Advanced Creative Writing Courses (2009)
- Nordic Exceptionalism and Whiteness in the South African Literary Imagination (2009)
- "Shoved down our throats" (2008)
- Writing Postcolonial Violence (2008)
- Zimbabwe will never be a colony again (2008)
- What Revolt in the Postcolony Today? (2008)
- Discourses of Dirt and Disease in Operation Murambatsvina (2007)
Reports
