Rustum Kozain Curriculum Vitae September 2014 (10 pages including cover page) 2 Biographical Details Full Name: Rustum Kozain Date of birth: 10 August 1966 Nationality: South African Health: Good Criminal Record: None Languages: Fully bilingual in English and Afrikaans Computer literacy: Above-average to advanced computer literacy; fast learner of new software. 3 Education August 1994 – May 1995: Two semesters as Fulbright student, Master of Fine Art (Poetry), Bowling Green State University, USA (GPA 4.00) 1991 – June 1994: M.A., Department of English, University of Cape Town; by dissertation. Title: “Contemporary English Oral Poetry by Black Poets in Great Britain and South Africa: A Comparison Between Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mzwakhe Mbuli” (220+ pages) 1991: Semester course in creative writing with Tom Raworth, University of Cape Town 1990: University of Cape Town, B.A. Honours in English (first class pass) 1989: University of Cape Town, Higher Diploma in Education (Postgraduate) Secondary; qualified to teach English and Afrikaans at secondary-school level 1988: University of Cape Town, Bachelor of Arts. Major in English. Other courses: Afrikaans 1; Afrikaans & Nederlands 2; Cultural History of Western Europe (1 & 2); Physics 1; Religious Studies 1; Philosophy 2 (Individual and Social Ethics, semester course) 1981 – 1984: Noorder Paarl Secondary, Paarl; Matriculation exemption with subjects: English, Afrikaans, Biology, Mathematics, Physical Science and History. Work Experience Teaching: Lecturer, Department of English, UCT, full-time, 2002-2004; included teaching literature, film, and creative writing. Administrative duties included convening courses: overseeing a course and managing the administration between students and lecturers who teach in the course. Lecture topics included Modernism, the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Bessie Head’s Maru, selected topics in film. Seminar topics included the films of Spike Lee, the poetry of Derek Walcott, selected topics in postcolonial studies, issues in race and representation in South African poetry. Other duties included six months as acting head of Creative Writing Department. 4 Assistant-Lecturer, Department of English, UCT, full-time, 1998-2001; duties as above. Other teaching experience include: External examiner, three creative writing theses (poetry), academic year ending 2013, University of Grahamstown Curriculum adviser, undergraduate Humanities students, UCT, 2003 Workshop leader, creative writing for high school students, Goethe Institute, Cape Town, 16 June 2000 Tutor (part-time), Introduction to African Studies, Centre for African Studies, UCT, 1995, 1996 Tutor (part-time), English I, UCT, 1991 — 1993, 1995 — 1997 Tutor (part-time), First-year English Written Composition, Department of English, Bowling Green State University, August to December 1994; textbook-based Tutor, Professional Communications Unit, UCT, February to June 1994 Residence tutor, The Woolsack Residence, UCT, English and Afrikaans, 1991 Facilitator, English I. tutors workshop, UCT, February 1993 Work experience – 2005 to present: ‘Curator’ (Selection and writing accompanying notes), South African poetry, in Another English: Anglophone poems from around the world, eds. Catherine Barnett and Tiphanie Yanique (Tupelo Press/Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, 2014) Contributing-editor, copy-editor, proof-reader, Chimurenga Chronic (quarterly), 2012-2013 Text editor, various freelance projects, from creative writing (poetry – in English and Afrikaans - and prose fiction [English]) to academic text. Part-time manuscript reviewer/ evaluator, 2005 to present (Kwela) 5 Text editor, Script for a Visual Presentation on Spier’s Africa Centre Project, 2007 Text editor/ proof-reader, Spier Sustainability Reports, 2005, 2006 Text editor/proof-reader, phase 1 of Spier Estate’s Southbank competition website Compiler/ Editor, South African Short Stories Since 1994 (for high schools), 2006, Oxford University Press Southern Africa (selected material and wrote accompanying notes and exercises) Compiler/ Editor, Voices from All Over, (poetry anthology for high schools), 2007, Oxford University Press Southern Africa (selected material and wrote accompanying notes and exercises) Creative Curator, pitch development for Spier signage (from brief to pitch), Lunch Advertising Agency, 2005 Further experience: Interpreter (English <> Afrikaans): For Dr Avron Moss (neuropsychologist); (“live” interpretation of interviews and tests) Data capturing: HIV Mental Health Unit, Groote Schuur Hospital, July 2009 Adjudicator, Student poetry competition, University of Stellenbosch, 2006 Adjudicator, English Academy of South Africa’s Thomas Pringle Award (television reviews), 1997 Editorial Assistant, Pretexts (academic journal), 1997-2003, included proofreading and occasional sub-editing of submissions. Guest editor, Die Suid Afrikaan, December 1995/ January 1996 issue Assistant-editor, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State University, USA, August 1994 — May 1995 (part of graduate studies programme) Research assistant, for Dr Brenda Cooper, Director, Centre for African Studies, UCT, 1993 — 1994, 1995 — January 1997 Research assistant, for David Theo Goldberg, editor, Social Identities, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. 1995 6 Essays, Reviews, Presentations, Journalism “The sound of whatever rhyming” (presentation), Craft Wars Symposium, University of Cape Town, 20 September 1-14 “Foreword”, in Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Post-Apartheid, Gabeba Baderoon (Wits UP, 2014) Review (documentary film): Shelly Barry’s Diaries of a Dissident Poet (on James Matthews), at Africa is a Country, July 2014 (http://africasacountry.com/james-matthews-being-james-matthews/) Review (poetry): Khulile Nxumalo’s Fhedzi, in Chronic Books (Chimurenga, Cape Town, November 2013) “Get your gharum on, Graham” (food column), in Chronic (Chimurenga, Cape Town, November 2013) “A brief history of shit” (journalism), Chronic, (Chimurenga, Cape Town, November 2013) “Curry Chronicles” (food column), Chronic, (Chimurenga, Cape Town, August 2013) “Where Terror Lies” (opinion piece on PAGAD), Chronic, (Chimurenga, Cape Town, April 2013) Review (poetry): Vivek Narayanan’s Life and Times of Mr S, in Chronic Books, (Chimurenga, Cape Town, April 2013) “Spring – light and dark” (non-fiction), in Visi Magazine, December 2012 Review (fiction): JM Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus, in Cape Times, March 2013 Review (non-fiction): Paul Auster’s Winter Journal, in Rapport, Dec. 2012 “The muezzin and I” (non-fiction), in Social Dynamics, 2012 “Fufu Pot” (food, creative non-fiction), in Chronic Life, (Chimurenga, Cape Town, Oct. 2011) Review (fiction): José Eduardo Agualusa’s My Father’s Wives, in Chronic Books, (Chimurenga, Cape Town, Oct. 2011) Occasional book reviews and opinion pieces in Rapport, Die Burger, Boeke- Insig, News24, Cape Times (ca 2007-2010) “More questions than answers” (music review of Die Antwoord), Art South Africa, 2010 “Royaumont Hash-up” (non-fiction), in Home Away, edited by Louis Greenberg (Zebra Press, 2010) “Onverbonde” (non-fiction), (translated into Afrikaans by Charl-Pierre Naude), in As almal ver is: Suid-Afrikaners skryf huis toe, edited by Danie Marais (Tafelberg, 2009) “You can’t get lost in the samoosa triangle” (food column), Chimurenga #14, 2009 (republication) “Dagga” (non-fiction), African Cities Reader I, (2009) Review (poetry): Petra Müller’s Night Crossing, in Rapport, 25 March 2007 “Moedertang”, autobiographical essay on Afrikaans and English, LitNet, 2005, (http://www.oulitnet.co.za/seminarroom/kozain_moedertang.asp) 7 Review (non-fiction/ cultural studies): Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim by Ziauddin Sardar, Mail & Guardian, 25 Nov. 2005 Review (cultural studies): “Poetics of the seam… and jazz”, Mail & Guardian, 5- 11 Nov. 2004 Review: Documentary, Rehad Desai’s Born into Struggle, in 3 Continents Film Festival supplement to Mail and Guardian, 3-9 Sept. 2004 Review (poetry): Kelwyn Sole’s Mirror and Water Gazing, Chris Mann’s Heartlands and Tatamkhulu Afrika’s Nightrider: Selected Poems, in English Academy Review, 2004 Review (academic; cultural/literary studies): Mark Sanders’s Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid, H-Net Reviews, 2005 Review (academic; history/rhetoric): The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam, in Journal of Islamic Studies, 2003 Review (cultural studies): “The Old in the New”, review of Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl-Ann Michael’s Senses of Culture, in Pretexts 11 (2), November 2002, pp.197-203 Introduction for book launch of Fiona Zerbst’s Time and Again, Cape Town, 27 September 2002 “Fuck Colouredness and the Coloured Voice” (opinion column), in Chimurenga, vol.1, 2002 Review (poetry): Tatamkhulu Afrika’s Mad Old Man Under the Morning Star, in New Coin Poetry, 37 (2), 2001 Staff Seminar, “Reading the Right Thing: Spike Lee’s Critique of Identity Politics”, Centre for African Studies, UCT, 8 August 2001 “The joys of smoking” (opinion column), WorldOnline, 16 August 2001 Review (poetry): Jeremy Cronin, Even the Dead, in New Contrast, 26 (1), 1998 Review (fiction): Ian Gordon, ed., Looking for a Rain God and other stories from Africa, in Wasafiri, #27, Spring 1998 Review (academic): Tanure Ojaide, Poetic Imagination in Black Africa: Essays on African Poetry, in Wasafiri, #26, Autumn 1997 “Slap chips for the soul” (food column), in Student Life, April 1997 “Bean me up” (food column), in Student Life, March 1997 “Brief