Book Projects, Chapters,
Academic Writing
Monographs/Book Projects:
“This is not the correct history”: Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka’s Civil War. Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. November 2022.
In progress: Contentious Images, Contentious Remembering: The Afrapix photographers’ collective & theafterlife of anti-apartheid images from South Africa
Peer-Reviewed Articles (in development/pending publication): ·
“Developing a politically conscious photographic practice in apartheid South Africa: Rafique Mayet’s images of Natal.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 11:1, 2025, pp. 252-286.
“Informed by conscience: Gille De Vlieg’s photography documenting land expropriation and forced removals in South Africa” (in development).
“Queering the Nation, Querying the History of Black Portraiture: Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama as a Healing Ritual”. Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria(publication pending).
Published Peer-Reviewed Articles (select):
“Developing a politically conscious photographic practice in apartheid South Africa: Rafique Mayet’s images of Natal.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 11:1, 2025, pp. 252-286.
“‘The famous and the obscure were there, waiting for freedom’: Jeeva Rajgopaul’s photographs of South African Exiles in New York, 1991.” Critical Arts: North-South Cultural and Media Studies. pp.1-16 (2019). DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2019.1690535.
“‘Forget Maps’: Countering Global Apartheid, Creating Novel Cartographies in Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret,” for Research in African Literatures. Volume 45, Number 1, Spring 2014, pp.1-23.
“Of Bastards, Creoles, and Incommensurable Remainders in the Transnation: Postcolonial Studies and Contemporary South African Literature.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies: Special Issue on Africa Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2013, 190-207.
“Maid in Public: Negotiating ‘Authenticity’ via Public Confessionals, or A Question of Agency: Narrative, Power, and the ‘Maid from Guinea’”. JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. ISSN: 1530-5686 (online). Nkiru Nzegwu, ed. 2013.
“Impenetrable Bodies/Disappearing Bodies: Fat American Celebrities, Lean Indigenous People, and Multinational Pharmaceuticals in the Battle to Claim Hoodia gordonii” Popular Communications, 9 (2). 2011.
“Ambiguous Bodies, Authentic Bodies: Terrorists, Passports, and Immigration Law in the Post 9/11 World.” Current Writing: Law and Literature in Southern Africa, Issue 22 (2). October 2010.
“Life in Transit / Love is a Homesickness.”
Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture, v. 3: Immanence / Imminence (November, 2009).
“Performing the Primitive in the Postcolony: Nyoni’s Kraal in Cape Town.” Co-authored with Daniel Hammett. Urban Forum. Vol. 20, No. 1. Feb. 2009)
“The Museum and the Story: Memorialising, Re-Presentation, and the Unspeakable Past in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story.” Scrutiny2, Spring 2008.
“Disappearing Bodies: Visibility and Erasure, Mobility and Containment of the Third World Immigrant During the War on Terror.” Scrutiny2, June 2007.
“Taking Things Personally, and Publicising the Private: Encountering Erasure on the Frontlines of Academia.” Social Dynamics, July 2007.
Book Chapters (select):
“Travelling Ayahs: Shadow Cosmopolitans in 19th-century British Empire-making.” Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britain, edited by Renée Mussai, Thames & Hudson, 2025, pp. 206-217.
“Institutional irresponsibility: How coverups at art institutions perpetuate gender-based violence.” Lesser Violence, Volume 1, ed. Amie Soudien. Johannesburg: MaThoko’s Books, 2022. pp. 141-169.
Gabrielle Goliath: performance as a ‘different kind of inhabitance.’” Mario Pissarra, ed. On the Map: Perspectives on art from Africa South (vol 1.) Cape Town: ASAI, 2022. pp. 104 -117.
“Reconciliations at Sea: Reclaiming the Lusophone Archipelago in Mónica de Miranda’s Video Works.” Willis, Deborah, Ellyn Toscano and Kalia Brooks Nelson (eds). Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019, . pp. 505 – 530. Available for free; download.
“‘Friend of the Family’: Maids, Madams, and Domestic Cartographies of Power in South African Art.” Ties That Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa. Jon Soske and Shannon Walsh (eds). Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2016. 216 – 242.
“Cultural Weapons Against Apartheid: Art, Artists, Cultural Boycotts”. Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy. Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs (eds). New York: Heymarket Press, Nov. 2015.
“‘Scandalous Memoir’: Uncovering Silences and Reclaiming the ‘Disappeared’ in Mahvish Rukhsana Kahn's My Guantánamo Diary.” Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11: The Wrong Side of Paradise, ed. Kristine A. Miller. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2015.
