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TALKS & LECTURES 

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"What is a Lie to Politics?: On Hannah Arendt's 'Truth and Politics' and 'Lying in Politics: Reflections on the Pentagon Papers'"

Guest lecture for Cultures & Contexts: Germany, College of Arts and Sciences (CORE), New York University, 2021

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"The 'Good Immigrant's' Dilemma: On Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese

Guest lecture for Expressive Cultures: The Graphic Novel, College of Arts and Sciences (CORE), New York University, 2020

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“Viral Language: Representations of HIV in Serpell and Mpe,” presented at the Harvard Institute for World Literature Summer School, 2020

 

“A Witch’s Work: Capitalism and Natality in Arendt and Federici,” presented at the University of California at Irvine as part of the After Work colloquium in March, 2019

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"Literary Trials: Janet Malcolm, Narrative Journalism and the Courtroom in South Africa and the United States," presented at the University of York as part of the Writing South Africa Now colloquium in July, 2014

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"'Every Technique Known To Prose:' The Aesthetics of True-Crime in Contemporary South Africa," presented at the University of Cambridge as part of the Writing South Africa Now colloquium in June, 2013

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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION

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"'Every Technique Known To Prose:' The Aesthetics of True-Crime in Contemporary South Africa," Current Writing: Text and Reception In Southern Africa. Volume 25: 2013 - Issue 2: Crime Fiction, South Africa 

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FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

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Podcasting the Humanities: Creating Digital Stories for the Public, National Humanities Center in partnership with San Diego State University, 2022

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Alpine Fellowship for cross-disciplinary scholarship of the contemporary age, 2020

 

MacCracken Fellowship, 2017-2022

 

Oppenheimer Fellowship, 2014-2015

 

A.W. Mellon Fellowship, 2012

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