CURRICULUM VITAE: DR.KAREN HAIRE Principia College, 1 Maybeck Place, Elsah, IL 62028 U.S.A E-mail: [email protected] Cell: 618-210-6620
Professional Interest
Main body of research including 2 books has been on historical figure, Sol T. Plaatje., pioneer black South African man of letters, journalist and politician, who started what Mandela finished. Research and teaching focuses on African literature and the writing of South African history from a non-Western perspective. Teaching experience includes building research capacity (South Africa) and teaching undergraduate courses in African Studies: Postcolonial African Literature; African Cultures; South African History and French Language. (U.S).
Professional Experience
Associate Professor, Multidisciplinary Faculty (Aug 2014-present)
Principia College (Liberal Arts), IL, U.S.A.
Courses in Postcolonial African Literature, African Cultures, South African History & French language
Research Fellow, African Languages (April 2013-present)
University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa
Scientific Publications; co-supervision of Ph.D dissertations and MA theses
Christian Science Journal-listed Nurse—part-time (April 2014-present)
Visiting International Academic (Jan 2013-May 2014)
Principia College (Liberal Arts), IL, U.S.A.
Courses in South African History, African Cultures and Linguistics
Writing Centre Coordinator, Academic Development Centre, (Nov 2008 – 2012)
University of Johannesburg, Soweto and Bunting Road campuses, South Africa Set up new Writing Centre (2010-2012)
Oversight Postgraduate (PG) Writing Support Initiative, with PG Centre (2012)
Promotion to Senior Lecturer (effective Nov 2011)
Research Fellow, Linguistics and Literary Theory (July 2010 – 2011)
Extraordinary Senior Lecturer, School of Languages (2008)
North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Research Unit: Languages and Literature in the South African context
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Languages (2004-2007)
North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Research Unit (2006-7)/ Research Focus Area (2004-5): Languages and Literature in the South African context
Christian Science Visiting Nurse--part-time (1996-2003)
Philadelphia/New York region
Nursing services to Christian Scientists at home
Christian Science Nurse/Charge Nurse/Nursing Instructor (1989-96)
Tenacre Foundation, Princeton, N.J./High Ridge House, Riverdale, N.Y.
Nursing services to Christian Scientists in the facility; regular supervisor; on-the- job instruction
Education Qualifications Ed.D., International Educational Development (Fall 1997-2003)
Specialization: Language, literacy and technology
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City
M.A., International Political and Economic Development (1993-97)
Specialization: Development
Fordham University, New York City
Christian Science Journal-listed Nurse (2014 – reinstated; originally 1989-2004)
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts
Christian Science Nurse's Training (1985-89)
Tenacre Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey
International Enrichment Program (1984-85)
Principia College, Elsah, Illinois
B.A Hons., French and German Language and Literature (1980-84)
Durham University, England
Accredited (refereed) Publications
Haire, K. “Sol T. Plaatje” Entry for SAGE On-line Encyclopedia of Modernism. (2016).
Matjila D.S. and K. Haire, Bringing Sol T. Plaatje Back Home (Ga E Phetsolele Nageng): Re- Storying’ the African and Batswana Sensibilities in his oeuvre. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, (300 page book) (2015).
Matjila, D.S. and K. Haire, “A World of Contrasts: Traditional Love and Marriage versus modern Troubadour Love in L.D. Raditladi’s Selelo sa morati (A Lover’s Lament)” Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies, 23 (2) 2013.
Matjila, D.S. and K Haire. Lover of His People: A Biography of Sol T. Plaatje. (2012). Eds and Trans. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. [ISBN:978-1- 868146017] [122 pages] (Translation from Setswana. Includes co-authored (i) Foreword and (ii) Informed Essay on life of biographer, S M Molema.)
Haire, K. and D.S. Matjila, “The inaugural Plaatje festival: A watershed event”. Tydskrif vir letterkunde 48 (2) 2011 (1500-word Report).
Haire, K. and D.S. Matjila, “The Cattle Motif in Sol T. Plaatje’s publications in English: Re-storying the African and Batswana Sensibilities” Journal of Black Studies, 41 (1) (September 2010): 207-217. Haire, K. and D.S. Matjila, “Teaching for Cultural Relevance and Restoration in the Multilingual South African Setting: The Pedagogical Potential of Bi-Lingual Setswana-English Stories” (Alternation 15, 2 2008: 158-179)
Matjila, D.S. and K. Haire “Representations of Cattle Wealth and Comfort in Setswana life and Oral literature” Muziki: A Journal of music research in Africa. vol 5, no 2, 2008.
Haire, Karen, “Literary strains of Negritude and consciencism in Chadian writer, Joseph Brahim Seid: Envisioning nation and a new multicultural Chadian identity" Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 45(2) 2008
Haire, Karen, “"Re-Storying" African Cultural Identity: The Festival in Chadian Writer, J.B. Seid" South African Journal of African Languages, 27 (1-2) 2007
Hoenig, K. Haire, “Identity imaged in history and story: re/constructing the life of Abd- al-Karim, founder/renewer of Islam in Wadai, Chad.” African Identities, 5(3) 2007: pp 313-330
Nyirahuku, B, and K. Haire Hoenig, “The Case for Inserting Bana Molokai Popular Culture Texts in the Rwandan Literature Classroom at the Secondary and Tertiary Levels.” English Studies in Africa, special issue on ‘English and English Education in South Africa and Africa,’ 49 (1) 2006: pp 47-70
Hoenig, K. Haire, Book Review of Africa and Europe: En/Countering Myths ed. Carlotta von Malzan, Research in African Literatures (summer 2005)
Peer-reviewed (non-refereed) Publications
Hoenig, K. Haire, “The Strength of Batswana Womanhood as Portrayed in the Character of Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi.” International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations. 5(6) 2006: pp 205-211
Other Publications
Haire, K. “Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932)” [O] Available: http://www.education.gov.za/TheDBE/SolPlaatjeHouse/tabid/442/Default.asp x (A web-posting written for the Sol Plaatje Educational Trust, 32 Angel Street, Kimberley, 8301)
Hoenig, K. Haire, Trans. Told by Starlight in Chad. (2007) Trenton, N.J.:Africa World Press. [ISBN: 1-59221-048-1] [71 pages] (Translation from French into English of Au Tchad sous les etoiles by Joseph Brahim Seid)
Presentations
Haire, K. “Translation as a Window into another Culture: Across Unequal Languages.” Presentation at MMLA, St. Louis, MO, Nov 2016 (forthcoming)
Haire, K. “Re-storying Africa: From Plaatje to Mandela,” Dean’s Colloquium, Principia College, Elsah, Ill, April 2016
Haire, K. “Bringing Plaatje Back Home.” Presentation made at University of Madison, Wisconsin, at Africa at noon Series, sponsored by African Literature Dept. March 2016
Haire, K. and D.S. Matjila, Book Launch: Bringing Sol T. Plaatje Back Home (Ga E Phetsolele Nageng). Clarke’s Book Store, Cape Town. 2-hour Question and Answer Presentation, August 2015
Haire, K. Invited Guest to Panel Discussion on “Globalization” 1st International Perspectives Conference, Principia College, Elsah, Ill, October, 2014
Haire, K. and D.S. Matjila, “Echoes of and affinities with bogosi (kingship) in the works of Sol T. Plaatje,” 40th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association, 9- 13 April 2014, Wits University, Johannesburg
Haire, K. Invited Guest to Panel Discussion on “Africa Rising.” 14th Pan-African Conference, Principia College, Elsah, Ill., 8-9 November, 2013
Haire, K. Setswana-English Bilingual Reading. American Literary Translators Association Conference, Oct 2013, Indiana University, Bloomington Haire, K, “Plaatje’s Elevation of the Downtrodden Black South African Mine, Farm, and Domestic Worker in Native Life in South Africa (1916) and The Mote and the Beam (1921) (Presentation given at “Land Divided: Land and South African Society in 2013, in Comparative Perspective,” University of Cape Town, South Africa, March 2013)
Haire, K and D.S. Matjila, “An afrocentric approach to the teaching of African language poetry: a CD” (Presentation at Tshwane Institute of Technology, 12th Biennial International Conference of the Southern African Folklore Society, September 2012)
Haire, K and D.S. Matjila, “Modernising the Teaching of Setswana Language Poetry: a CD” (Presentation at International Society for Oral Literatures of Africa 9th biennial conference, University of Venda, July 1, 2012)
Haire K. “Seetsele Modiri Molema of the Mahikeng Molemas: Writing History” (Invited Scholar. Talk given at Sol Plaatje Literary Festival, Mahikeng, December 9, 2011, North-West Department of Sports, Arts and Culture )
Haire, K and D.S. Matjila, “Translation as a Window into another Culture” (Seminar presentation at Department of Linguistics and Literary Theory, University of Johannesburg, July 19, 2011).
Haire, K and D.S. Matjila, “Setswana Stories for the Multilingual South African Classroom,” Inaugural Plaatje Festival, Mafeking, Nov 6, 2010
Haire, K. and D.S. Matjila, “Culturally Relevant Education for Africa” (Presentation given at the invitation of Professor MK Asante, Department of African-American Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. August 4, 2009)
Haire, K., “Allusions to and Echoes of Bogosi (kingship) in Sol T. Plaatje, creative writing, translation and research” (Worlds in Dialogue, North-West University, Potchefstroom, July 8, 2009)
Haire, K., “Re-storying Africa’s Economic Dispossession in Sol T. Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa,” Department of English, University of Kwazulu-Natal, September 1, 2008
Haire, K and D.S. Matjila, “A World of Contrasts in L. D. Raditladi's Selelo sa Morati (A Lover's Lament): Traditional Love and Marriage versus Modern Troubadour Love.” Graduate School Seminar Series, UNISA. August 7, 2008 Haire, K., "Culturally-Relevant and Restorative Literature: Sol T. Plaatje and Bi-lingual Setswana-English Proverbs and Stories.” Presentation given at Faculty Seminar Series, Department of Education, University of Kwazulu-Natal, April 30, 2008
Hoenig, K. Haire, “Sol T. Plaatje, our first Motswana man of letters" Presentation given at one-day Hybridity Conference, North-West University, Potchefstroom, September 2007
Hoenig, K. Haire, “Towards a Model for culturally-relevant literature/stories for the African Educational Setting.” Presentation made at 31st African Literature Association Conference, Accra, 2006
Hoenig, K. Haire, “Written and Oral Accounts of the Coming of Islam to Wadai, Chad: What Do These Overlapping and Intertwined Histories Tell Us about the Re- construction of Chadian Cultural Identity.” Presentation made at International Hybridity Conference, Potchefstroom, July 2005
Hoenig, K. Haire, “Re-storying Batswana Cultural Identity in Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi,” Presentation made at 31st African Literature Association Annual Conference, Boulder, 2005
Hoenig, K. Haire, “Positioning Joseph Brahim Seid, a New-Old Writer from Chad; A Reading of the Preface to Au Tchad sous les étoiles,” Presentation made at 30th African Literature Association Conference, Madison, 2004
Hoenig, K. Haire, “Au Tchad sous les étoiles: Between Affirmation of Shared Humanity and Celebration of Cultural Uniqueness,” Presentation made at 44th African Studies Association Conference, Houston, 2001
Other Unpublished Translation
Bilingual Setswana/English Stories (Eds. Malefo, B.M. and Haire, K.) In partnership with Sol Plaatje Educational Trust (SPET), Kimberley and panSALB, N.C. branch.) Fieldwork conducted among storytellers, 2006-7. Translation completed 2008
Unpublished Innovative Teaching Artefact
Haire, K and DS Matjila. CD entitled “Traditional versus Modern Love in Setswana Poetry” intended to modernise the teaching of Setswana Poetry in South Africa. Completed 2012. Suitable for 1st year tertiary
Professional Affiliations
American Association of University Women (2015-present) Midwest Modern Languages Association (2016) African Studies Association (2014) International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (2012) African Literature Association (2003-2008) American Association of Teachers of French (2005) African Studies Association (2001-2003)
Honours
Matjila, D.S. and K Haire. Lover of His People: A Biography of Sol T. Plaatje. (2012). Eds and Trans. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. [ISBN:978-1- 868146017] [122 pages] -- included in the prestigious Thomas Reuters Book Citation Index of the Web of Science, June 2015
Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation. Awarded by the English Academy of Southern Africa for Lover of his People. A Biography of Sol T. Plaatje. Award for best English Translation in 2013
Promotion to Senior Lecturer, November, 2011. First Promotion in life of Academic Development Support (ADS) Unit
National Research Foundation of South Africa free-standing postdoctoral fellowship awarded, 2005-7. Focus Area: “Distinct South African Research Opportunities”
Wilfred Membry Hanzlik Award (1985), Principia College, Illinois, USA. Awarded to an international student “who has made an outstanding contribution to the college community in sharing the cultural advantages of his native country with Principia and in his expression of brotherhood”
Personal Details
Citizen of Ireland (by birth); Naturalized U.S. Citizen, May 1997; Permanent Residency, South Africa, May 2011