Curriculum Vitae - Laurence Wright

Title / Name Professor Laurence Wright

Qualifications BA Hons (Rhodes), MA (Warwick), D.Phil (Oxford)

Publications Books: (As from 2009) Laurence Wright, ed. 2012. South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape. NISC. Laurence Wright, ed. 2009. South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century. The Shakespearean International Yearbook. Vol. 9. Ashgate. Laurence Wright, ed. 2009. Stimela: Railway Poems of South Africa. Echoing Green. Chapters in Books: Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘National Language Conundrums in the Rural Classroom.’ South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape. Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC. Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Origins of the Eastern Cape Education Crisis’. South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape. Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC. Laurence Wright and Monica Hendricks. 2012. ‘“Power bedevils everything”: Towards improving education in the Eastern Cape. An interview with Dr Frank Peters.’ South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape. Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC. Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Rural Teachers, Reading and the Social Imagination.’ South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape. Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC. Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Teachers as Heroes.’ South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape. Ed. Laurence Wright. NISC. Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Notes from a Rhenish Mission: The Sparse code of a great song.’ No Other World: Essays on the Life-work of Don Maclennan. Ed. Dan Wylie. Print Matters. Laurence Wright. 2010. ’David Lurie’s Learning and the meaning of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.’ J.M. Coetzee’s Austerities. Ed. Graham Bradshaw and Michael Neill. Ashgate. Laurence Wright. 2010. Irony and Transcendence on the Renaissance Stage. ‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern England. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Brepols. Laurence Wright. 2009. ‘South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century.’ Shakespearean International Yearbook 9. Ashgate. Laurence Wright. 2009. ‘Umabatha: Zulu play or Shakespeare translation?’ Shakespearean International Yearbook 9. Ashgate. Academic articles: Laurence Wright. 2013. ‘Towards “Discourse 4”: Re-orientating research discourse to address a key aspect of South Africa’s education crisis.’ Southern African Review of Education 19.1. Laurence Wright. 2013. ‘Valuing the Humanities: What the Reports don’t say.’ South African Journal of Science 1.2 (109).

Laurence Wright. 2013. ‘Irreplaceable Acting.’ Shakespeare in Southern Africa 25. Laurence Wright. 2013. ‘Guy Butler’s South Africanism: “Being present where you are”.’ Lecture delivered at Rhodes University on being awarded the English Academy’s Gold Medal. The English Academy Review 29.2.

Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘Language as a “Resource” in South Africa: The Economic Life of Language in a Globalising Society.’ The English Academy Review: Golden Jubilee Commemorative Edition. Reprint. Laurence Wright. 2012. ‘”Being present where you are”: Guy Butler’s South Africanism (with notes on Kirkwood and Coetzee).’ Current Writing 24.1. Laurence Wright, Guest Editor. 2012. Interrogating the Spread of Shakespeare: Australia and New Zealand. Multicultural Shakespeare 8. Laurence Wright. 2011. ‘”Iron on iron”: Modernism engaging apartheid in some South African Railway Poems.’ English Studies in Africa 54.2. Laurence Wright. 2010. ‘Third World Express: Trains and “revolution” in Southern African poetry.’ Literator 31.2. Laurence Wright with Brian Pearce. 2009. ‘”Intellectual challenge is as necessary as breathing”: an interview with Laurence Wright.’ English Academy Review. 26.1. Laurence Wright. 2009. ‘Nathaniel Merriman’s Lecture: “Shakspeare as Bearing on English History”.’ Shakespeare in Southern Africa. 21. Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). O. Cartwright (novel). Master / Doctoral studies supervised Graduated, 2012. (completed) Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). L. Gowans (propse- poem). Graduated, 2012.

Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (supervisor). Q. Hogge (poetry collection). Graduated, 2013.

Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). R. Malatshe (novel). Graduated, 2012.

Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). S. Mahlangu (novel). Graduated, 2012.

Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). N. Tshisela (short story collection). Graduated, 2012. Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). M. v.d. Nest (poetry collection). Graduated, 2012.

Rhodes MA in Creative Writing, (co–supervisor). R. Woudstra (novel). Graduated, 2012.

Special awards / Gold Medal, English Academy of Southern Africa (2010) recognition /positions Honorary Life President, Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Senior Research Medal (2009) Elected to the South African Academy of Science (2009) Editorial Board, Shakespeare, (Journal of the British Shakespeare Association) Editorial Board, English Studies in Africa, (University of the Witwatersrand)

Editorial Board, English Academy Review, (English Academy of Southern Africa)

Editor, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 1992–1998

Current / Previous Formerly H.A. Molteno Professor of English and Director of the Institute affiliation for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University.

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