Andrew van der Vlies

Professor Andrew van der Vlies

Professor, English and Creative Writing

School of Humanities

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

I joined the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide as Professor in January 2021 after teaching for 16 years in the United Kingdom — at the University of Sheffield (from 2005) and, most recently, Queen Mary University of London (since 2010).

My research and teaching interests include:

-- Modern and contemporary literatures in English (British, North American, African, Australian)
-- Modernisms, global and peripheral
-- South African literatures (in English and Afrikaans), literary historiography, visual cultures, fine art, cultural studies
-- Affect studies, ‘Public Feelings’, politics and emotion
-- Gender and Sexuality / Queer Theory
-- creative non-fiction, autofiction, poetry
-- History of the Book / print and text cultures (especially colonial and postcolonial) / textual editing
-- ‘World Literature’ and ‘Postcolonial Studies’ (theory, practice, pedagogy)
-- Translation theory and practice
-- Individual writers: Anne Carson, J. M. Coetzee, Joseph Conrad, Rachel Cusk, Joan Didion, Nadine Gordimer, Alex La Guma, Maggie Nelson, Michael Ondaatje, Claudia Rankine, Marilynne Robinson, Karel Schoeman, Olive Schreiner, Susan Sontag, Marlene van Niekerk, Zoë Wicomb, Ingrid Winterbach

I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students in any of these areas or on a broadly related topic.

I was born and raised in South Africa, where, at Rhodes University in Grahamstown (now Makhanda), I completed a BA in English and Law and an Honours degree in English before writing an MA dissertation on the American novelist Paul Auster. I went to the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1998, reading first for the erstwhile MPhil in English Literature (1880-present), and subsequently completing a DPhil dissertation, supervised by Peter D. McDonald, on the development of the idea of a ‘South African’ literary tradition between 1883 and 1979. My books include monographs on South African print cultures, and on postapartheid writing, affect and temporality, and a number of edited and co-edited volumes.

I have been awarded fellowships and grants by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust in the UK, the Harry Ransom Research Center in the US, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. I am at present co-investigator on a British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project on literary modernisms in South Africa. 

I hold the honorary position of Extraordinary Professor in the Department of English at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

Alongside my scholarly work, I am developing a practice as a translator.

My first book, South African Textual Cultures (Manchester University Press, 2007, pbk. 2011), considered the construction of the idea of an anglophone South African literature through a series of case studies of the publication and reception histories of authors from Olive Schreiner, Alan Paton, and Alex La Guma, to J.M. Coetzee and Zakes Mda. Rita Barnard (UPenn) called it ‘the first major study to question the very category of “South African literature” and to describe the process of its construction in a sustained, engaging, theoretically astute manner’. I continue to write about and facilitate work on African and South African print cultures: I contributed the essay on "The History of the Book in Sub-Saharan Africa" to the Oxford Companion to the Book (2010), for which I also acted as an associate editor; Wits University Press published my edited reader Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa in 2012; and I am currently editing a new scholarly edition of Olive Schreiner’s important 1883 novel, The Story of an African Farm, for Edinburgh University Press, in a series for which I am general co-editor.

My most recent monograph developed from an ongoing interest in writing from South Africa over the past three decades, as well as in affect studies and recent queer-theoretical engagements with time. Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing (Oxford University Press, 2017), mobilizes an understanding of disappointment as description of affect and of temporality (a missed appointment with a future imagined by the anti-apartheid movement) to consider how postapartheid writing engages temporality, genre, and form in its treatment of the fate of the hope that attended the birth of the ‘new’ nation in 1994. Considering in detail work in English (by J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Songeziwe Mahlangu, Masande Ntshanga, Ivan Vladislavić, and Zoë Wicomb) and in Afrikaans (by Marlene van Niekerk and Ingrid Winterbach), it assesses writers’ engagements with a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture, including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia. Simon Gikandi (Princeton) calls the book ‘one of the most lucid and original reflections on South African writing after Apartheid’. Derek Attridge (York) says it ‘provides an insightful, absorbing and theoretically astute investigation of the status of contemporary South African literature’.

I have published elsewhere on Gordimer and on Coetzee, including a short Continuum/Bloomsbury book on Disgrace and a chapter in the Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee; I am also co-editor of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee, and a chapter on Coetzee's engagements with Gordimer appears in 2021. I have co-edited special issues of journals on South Africa and the global mediascape and on Wicomb and transnationalism, and contributed chapters to the Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012) and the Oxford History of the Novel in English (vol. 11, 2016). I have also published on queer politics and performance in contemporary South African art (with a focus on Nicholas Hlobo and Zanele Muholi). In February 2019, Bloomsbury Academic published South African Writing in Transition, a multi-author collection of essays on postapartheid literature, which I co-edited with Rita Barnard.

Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013, an edited collection of essays by the prizewinning South African-born writer Zoë Wicomb, was published by Yale University Press in the US and UK and by Wits University Press in South Africa, in November 2018. You can hear me talking with David Attwell about Zoë Wicomb's most recent novel, Still Life, on the first episode of the LitNet podcast 'Full Particulars' here (June 2021). For another podcast conversation, you can listen to my discussion with the South African author Damon Galgut about his 2021 Booker-Prizewinning novel The Promise here (February 2022).

I served as Lead Editor of the Taylor and Francis journal Safundi for a decade, and continue to serve on its editorial board, as well as on the boards of several other peer-reviewed journals. 

I am co-investigator on an AHRC-funded project (with Jade Munslow-Ong) on literary modernisms in South Africa, whose outputs will include an essay collection. Other current projects include a new monograph that extends my work on affect and form to a range of contemporary literary and other (including legal) texts and cultural objects from South Africa, the United States, Britain, and Australia.

Alongside my scholarly work, I am developing a practice as a translator; my translations of poetry by the Afrikaans-language poet Sheila Cussons have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation (2020, No. 3), The Denver Quarterly (vol 55, no. 2, 2021), and the online journal Asymptote (Summer 2021).

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2024 Bye, J. A. T., & James, C. E. (2024). SEAFRAME time series from the Southern Shelf reveal a neglected major upwelling mechanism. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 148(1), 79-98.
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    2024 Iaconi, A., Hoben, M., Berta, W., Duan, Y., Norton, P. G., Song, Y., . . . Estabrooks, C. A. (2024). The Association of Nursing Homes’ Organizational Context With Care Aide Empowerment: A Cross-Sectional Study. Gerontologist, 64(6), 12 pages.
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    2024 van der Vlies, A. (2024). Common/wealth: Contested commons and proleptic critique. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 59(1), 43-52.
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    2024 Wajahat, A., He, J., Zhu, N., Mahmood, T., Nazir, A., Ullah, F., . . . Dev, S. (2024). Securing Android IoT devices with GuardDroid transparent and lightweight malware detection. Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 15(5), 102642.
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    2024 Humphrey, A., & Walsh, S. (2024). Lost Precursor to Autobiographical Comics, Kangarooland (ca. 1918–1919), Illuminates Transnational Creativity in Australia's WWI Internment Camps. Journal of Australian Studies, 48(2), 209-229.
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    2024 Dang, Q. T., Rammal, H. G., & Nguyen, T. Q. (2024). University-industry knowledge collaborations in emerging countries: the outcomes and effectiveness in Vietnam. Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 20 pages.
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    2024 Laslett, L. L., Scheepers, L. E. J. M., Antony, B., Wluka, A. E., Cai, G., Hill, C. L., . . . Jones, G. (2024). Krill Oil for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA, 331(23), 1997-2006.
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    2024 Abbott, R., Abe, H., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adhikari, N., Adhikari, R. X., . . . Bazzan, M. (2024). Search for Gravitational-wave Transients Associated with Magnetar Bursts in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo Data from the Third Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 966(1), 32 pages.
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    2024 Ding, W., Zhang, J. X., & Shi, P. (2024). Adaptive Fuzzy Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots With Prescribed Trajectory Tracking Performance. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 32(8), 4510-4521.
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    2024 Kaptein, B. L., Pijls, B., Koster, L., Kärrholm, J., Hull, M., Niesen, A., . . . Stilling, M. (2024). Guideline for RSA and CT-RSA implant migration measurements: an update of standardizations and recommendations. Acta Orthopaedica, 95, 256-267.
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    2024 Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abeling, K., Abicht, N. J., Abidi, S. H., Aboulhorma, A., . . . Aparo, M. A. (2024). Search for pair-production of vector-like quarks in lepton+jets final states containing at least one b-tagged jet using the Run 2 data from the ATLAS experiment. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 854, 28 pages.
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    2024 Stephens, A. N., Hobbs, S. J., Kang, S. W., Oehler, M. K., Jobling, T. W., & Allman, R. (2024). Utility of a Multi-Marker Panel with Ultrasound for Enhanced Classification of Adnexal Mass. Cancers, 16(11), 13 pages.
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    2024 Yang, Z., Shen, Y., Hou, L., Zhang, W. E., & Chen, T. (2024). S<sup>3</sup>Seg: A Three-Stage Unsupervised Foreground and Background Segmentation Network. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 31, 1484-1488.
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    2024 Yan, B., Sun, Y., Shi, P., & Lim, C. -C. (2024). Event and Learning-Based Resilient Formation Control for Multiagent Systems Under DoS Attacks. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 54(8), 4876-4886.
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    2024 Collingridge, A., & O’Callaghan, M. (2024). Seminal papers in urology: urinary volume, water and recurrences in idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis: a 5-year randomized prospective study: Borghi L, Meschi T, Amato F, Briganti A, Novarini A, Giannini A. urinary volume, water and recurrences in idiopathic calcium nephrolithiasis: a 5-year randomized prospective study. The Journal of urology. 1996 Mar;155(3):839 − 43. BMC Urology, 24(1), 4 pages.
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    2024 Abd Wahab, H. H. B., & O’Callaghan, M. (2024). Seminal papers in urology: two-year outcomes of Sacral Neuromodulation Versus OnabotulinumtoxinA for refractory urgency urinary incontinence: a Randomized Trial. BMC Urology, 24(1), 3 pages.
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    2024 Li, M., Xu, J., Liu, D., Yang, J., Lin, J., Xiao, X., . . . Yang, W. (2024). Atomic-level precision engineering: Single-atom catalysts with controlled loading density for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction. Applied Surface Science, 667, 9 pages.
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    2024 Ivaturi, A., Do, L. G., Giles, L., Devenish, G., Scott, J. A., Ha, D. H., . . . Moynihan, P. J. (2024). Sources and determinants of free sugars intake by 5-year-old Australian children in the SMILE cohort. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 20(4), e13671-1-e13671-11.
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    2024 Camp, E., Garcia, L. G., Pribadi, C., Paton, S., Vasilev, K., Anderson, P., & Gronthos, S. (2024). Targeting of C-ROS-1 Activity Using a Controlled Release Carrier to Treat Craniosynostosis in a Preclinical Model of Saethre-Chotzen Syndrome. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2024, 8863925-1-8863925-12.
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    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). "Doing very well in South Africa": Fiona Melrose, Karel Schoeman, and the Intertextual Afterlives of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. ENGLISH IN AFRICA, 50(2), 29-49.
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    2023 Graham, L. V., & van der Vlies, A. (2023). Preface. The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee, xiii-xiv.
    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). Beyond Impasse: Affect and Language Community in Select Contemporary Afrikaans Lyric Poetry. Ariel, 54(3-4), 189-215.
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    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). World Literature, the opaque archive, and the untranslatable: J. M. Coetzee and some others. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 58(2), 480-497.
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    2022 van der Vlies, A. (2022). Constellated in a Flash: On the Dialectics of Seeing (beyond Stasis) in Zoe Wicomb's Work. ENGLISH IN AFRICA, 49(2), 7-25.
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    2022 van der Vlies, A. (2022). 'Zoë Wicomb’s Angels of History: Literary Historiography and Historical Materialism in Still Life’. Research in African Literatures, 53(1), 1-23.
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    2021 Xiong, L., Ren, W., Lin, H., & Zhang, H. (2021). Efficient removal of bisphenol A with activation of peroxydisulfate via electrochemically assisted Fe(III)-nitrilotriacetic acid system under neutral condition. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, 403, 9 pages.
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    2020 van der Vlies, A. (2020). Everyone is present: essays on photography, memory and family. Safundi, 21(1), 110-113.
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    2019 Atta, D., & van der Vlies, A. (2019). Queer Worlds/Global Queer. Wasafiri, 34(2), 1-2.
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    2018 Willén, J., & van der Vlies, A. (2018). Reading for hope: a conversation about texts and method. Safundi, 19(3), 357-373.
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    2017 van der Vlies, A. (2017). Thick Time: William Kentridge, Peripheral Modernisms, and the Politics of Refusal. Modernism/Modernity, 2(1), 1-18.
    2013 van der Vlies, A. (2013). RESPONSE: The People, the Multitude and the Costs of Privacy in South Africa's Postcolony. Cultural Studies, 27(3), 496-518.
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    2013 Van Der Vlies, A. (2013). "i'm only grateful that it's not a Cape Town book", or: Zoë Wicomb, textuality, propriety, and the proprietary. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 48(1), 9-25.
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    2013 van der Vlies, A. (2013). The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures. LIBRARY & INFORMATION HISTORY, 29(1), 68-69.
    2013 Book Reviews (2013). Library &amp; Information History, 29(1), 59-71.
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    2012 Van Der Vlies, A. (2012). Queer knowledge and the politics of the gaze in contemporary South African photography: Zanele Muholi and others. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 24(2), 140-156.
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    2012 van der Vlies, A. (2012). South African Literature beyond the Cold War. MODERN LANGUAGE QUARTERLY, 73(2), 248-251.
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    2011 van der Vlies, A. (2011). An interview with Mark Behr. Safundi, 12(1), 1-26.
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    2011 Easton, K., & Van Der Vlies, A. (2011). Zoë Wicomb, the Cape and the Cosmopolitan: An Introduction. Safundi, 12(3-4), 249-259.
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    2011 van der Vlies, A. (2011). Zoë Wicomb's Queer Cosmopolitanisms. Safundi, 12(3-4), 425-444.
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    2011 van der Vlies, A. (2011). Alex La Guma: A Literary & Political Biography. JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 37(2), 392-+.
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    2010 van der Vlies, A. (2010). The Archive, the spectral, and narrative responsibility in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light. Journal of Southern African Studies, 36(3), 583-598.
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    2010 van der Vlies, A. (2010). <i>District 9</i>: A Roundtable. SAFUNDI, 11(1-2), 155-175.
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    2009 van der Vlies, A. (2009). Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis. SAFUNDI, 10(2), 255-260.
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    2008 van der Vlies, A. (2008). On the ambiguities of narrative and of history: Writing (about) the past in Recent South African literary criticism. Journal of Southern African Studies, 34(4), 949-961.
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    2008 Van Der Vlies, A. (2008). An interview with Jeremy Cronin. Contemporary Literature, 49(4), 515-540.
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    2008 Flanery, P. D., & Van Der Vlies, A. (2008). Introduction: Annexing the global, globalizing the local. Scrutiny2, 13(1), 5-19.
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    2007 van Der Vlies, A. (2007). Transnational print cultures: Books, -scapes, and the textual atlantic. Safundi, 8(1), 45-55.
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    2007 van der Vlies, A. (2007). Reading Banned Books: Apartheid Censors and Anti-Apartheid Aesthetics. Wasafiri, 22(3), 55-61.
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    2007 van der Vlies, A. (2007). 'You must set forth at dawn' - A memoir. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5446), 9-10.
    2007 Van der Vlies, A. (2007). Life sentence: A biography of herman Charles Bosman. JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 33(3), 695-696.
    2006 van der Vlies, A. (2006). 'Wizard of the crow'. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5403), 21.
    2006 Van Der Vlies, A. (2006). In the country of men. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5392), 21.
    2006 Van der Vlies, A. (2006). The 'beautiful screaming of pigs'. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5380), 23.
    2006 Van Der Vlies, A. (2006). Karoo Boy. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5365), 23.
    2006 Van der Vlies, A. (2006). ‘Local’ writing, ‘global’ reading, and the demands of the ‘canon’: The Case of Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country. South African Historical Journal, 55(1), 20-32.
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    2006 Van Der Vlies, A. (2006). South Africa and the global imagination: The local and the global in literary and cultural studies. Scrutiny2, 11(1), 115-125.
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    2005 Van Der Vlies, A. (2005). 'Hurled by what aim to what tremendous range!': Roy campbell and the politics of anthologies, 1927-1945.. English Studies in Africa, 48(1), 63-85.
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    2005 Van Der Vlies, A. (2005). A history of South African literature.. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 56(226), 691-693.
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    2005 Van Der Vlies, A. (2005). J.M. Coetzee and the ethics of reading - Literature in the event. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5339), 29.
    2005 Van Der Vlies, A. (2005). Shades of darkness. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5327), 21.
    2005 O'Callaghan, M., Reddin, J., & Lehmann, D. (2005). Helminth and protozoan parasites of feral cats from Kangaroo Island. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 129, 81-83.
    2004 Van Der Vlies, A. (2004). 'Before I forget'. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5293), 21.
    2004 Van Der Vlies, A. (2004). The 'Shadow of the wind'. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, (5283), 21.
    2004 Van der Vlies, A. (2004). Introduction: The institutions of south African literature. ENGLISH STUDIES IN AFRICA, 47(1), 1-15.
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    2004 VAN DER VLIES, A. (2004). Disaggregating imperial(ist) discourses. Scrutiny2, 9(2), 72-76.
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    2003 VAN DER VLIES, A. (2003). 'Your passage leaves its track of... change': Textual variation in Roy Campbell's 'tristan Da Cunha', 1926-1945. English Studies in Africa, 46(1), 47-61.
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    2002 van der Vlies, A. (2002). ‘The Editorial Empire: The Fiction of “Greater Britain”, and the Early Readers of Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm’.. TEXT: An Inter-disciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, 15, 237-260.
    1999 van Loosdrecht, M., & van der Vlies, A. (1999). Selected proceedings of the Aquatech 1998 Conference, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 24-25 September 1998 - Preface. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 39(4), IX.
    - Speedy, K. (n.d.). The author as cannibal: Rewriting in francophone literature as a postcolonial genre, 1969-1995. JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING, 2 pages.
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  • Books
    Year Citation
    2023 van der Vlies, A., & Graham, L. V. (Eds.) (2023). The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    2023 van der Vlies, A., & Graham, L. V. (Eds.) (2023). The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    2019 Barnard, R., & van der Vlies, A. (Eds.) (2019). South African Writing in Transition. Bloomsbury.
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    2018 Wicomb, Z. (2018). Race, Nation, and Translation: South African Essays, 1989-2013. A. van der Vlies (Ed.), Yale University Press.
    2017 van der Vlies, A. (2017). Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
    2012 van der Vlies, A. (Ed.) (2012). Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa.
    2011 van der Vlies, A. (2011). South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read All Over (Paperback edition (of 2007 first edition in hardback) ed.). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
    2010 van der Vlies, A. (2010). J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (Continuum Contemporaries). Continuum (Bloomsbury).

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2024 van der Vlies, A. (2024). On postcolonial disappointment: Affect's formal politics in post-transition narrative from South Africa. In The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature (pp. 144-160).
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    2024 van der Vlies, A. (2024). On Postcolonial Disappointment. In The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literature (pp. 144-160). Routledge.
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    2023 Marques, J. (Ed.) (2023). The Palgrave Handbook of Fulfillment, Wellness, and Personal Growth at Work. In . Springer International Publishing.
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    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). ‘An Arc Beyond Stasis: Activism in the hinterland-facing fictions of Alex La Guma and Zoë Wicomb.’. In P. Gupta, S. Nuttall, E. Peeren, & H. Stuit (Eds.), Global Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment, Care (pp. 179-192). New York: Palgrave.
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    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). 'The Costello Project'.. In A. van der Vlies, & L. V. Graham (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee (pp. 169-179). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). 'The Costello Project'.. In A. van der Vlies, & L. V. Graham (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee (pp. 169-179). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    2023 van der Vlies, A., & Graham, L. V. (2023). ‘On the Idea of a Handbook to the Works of J. M. Coetzee: “Preposterous”’.. In A. van der Vlies, & L. V. Graham (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee (pp. 3-14). London: Bloomsbury Acacemic.
    2023 van der Vlies, A., & Graham, L. V. (2023). ‘On the Idea of a Handbook to the Works of J. M. Coetzee: “Preposterous”’.. In A. van der Vlies, & L. V. Graham (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee (pp. 3-14). London: Bloomsbury Acacemic.
    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). Refusing the Anti-Politics Machine: On Post-Transitional, Transitional Times. In R. Ksenia (Ed.), Remembering Transitions
    Local Revisions and Global Crossings in Culture and Media (pp. 315-322). De Gruyter.
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    2023 van der Vlies, A., & Munslow Ong, J. (2023). Olive Schreiner in the World. In J. Munslow Ong, & A. van der Vlies (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (pp. 1-20). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    2023 van der Vlies, A., & Munslow Ong, J. (2023). Olive Schreiner in the World. In J. Munslow Ong, & A. van der Vlies (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (pp. 1-20). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). ‘Coetzee’s Schreiner, Schreiner’s Coetzee: Provincializing Allegory.’. In J. Munslow Ong, & A. van der Vlies (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (pp. 295-313). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). ‘Coetzee’s Schreiner, Schreiner’s Coetzee: Provincializing Allegory.’. In J. Munslow Ong, & A. van der Vlies (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (pp. 295-313). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
    2021 van der Vlies, A. (2021). ‘Writing, politics, position: Coetzee and Gordimer in the archive’. In M. Farrant, K. Easton, & H. Wittenberg (Eds.), J. M. Coetzee and the Archive: Fiction, Theory, and Autobiograph (pp. 59-75). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
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    2020 van der Vlies, A. (2020). Publics and personas. In J. Zimbler (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee (pp. 234-248). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
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    2019 van der Vlies, A. (2019). Queer Returns in Postapartheid Short Fiction: S. J. Naudé’s The Alphabet of Birds. In R. Barnard, & A. van der Vlies (Eds.), South African Writing in Transition (pp. 195-215). London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
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    2018 van der Vlies, A. (2018). ‘Zoë Wicomb’s South African Essays: Intertextual Ethics, Translative Possibilities, and the Claims of Discursive Variety'. In A. van derr Vlies (Ed.), Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013 (pp. 3-33). New Haven, Connecticut; USA: Yale University Press.
    2018 van der Vlies, A., & Wicomb, Z. (2018). Intertextualities, Interdiscourses, and Intersectionalities: An Interview with Zoë Wicomb. In A. van der Vlies (Ed.), Race, Nation, Translation South African Essays, 1990-2013 (pp. 261-281). New Haven, Connecticut; USA: Yale University Press.
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    2018 van der Vlies, A. (2018). INTRODUCTION: ZOË WICOMB’S SOUTH AFRICAN ESSAYS: INTERTEXTUAL ETHICS, TRANSLATIVE POSSIBILITIES, AND THE CLAIMS OF DISCURSIVE VARIETY. In A. van der Vlies (Ed.), Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013 (pp. 1-34). New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press.
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    2016 van der Vlies, A. (2016). The Novel and Apartheid. In S. Gikandi (Ed.), The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean Since 1950 (pp. 181-197). New York, NY; USA: Oxford University Press.
    2015 Van Der Vlies, A. (2015). "Même dying stop confirm arrival stop": Provincial literatures in global time-the case of Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat. In S. Helgesson, & P. Vermeulen (Eds.), Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets (pp. 191-208). Routledge.
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    2014 van der Vlies, A. (2014). ‘“[From] whom this writing then?”: Politics, Aesthetics and the Personal in Coetzee’s Age of Iron’.. In L. Wright, E. Boehmer, & J. Poyner (Eds.), Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's Disgrace and Other Works (pp. 96-104). Modern Language Assn of Amer.
    2012 van der Vlies, A. (2012). ‘Print, Text, and Books in South Africa.’. In A. van der Vlies (Ed.), Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa (pp. 2-48). Wits University Press.
    2012 van der Vlies, A. (2012). ‘In—or From—the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s Antipastoral’.. In A. van der Vlies (Ed.), Print, Text, and Book Cultures in South Africa. (pp. 166-194).
    2012 Van Der Vlies, A. (2012). South Africa in the global imaginary. In The Cambridge History of South African Literature (pp. 697-716). Cambridge University Press.
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    2010 Van Der Vlies, A. (2010). The history of the book in sub-Saharan Africa. In M. F. Suarez, & H. R. Woudhuysen (Eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Book (pp. 313-320). Oxford University Press.
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    2010 van der Vlies, A. (2010). ‘July’s People in Context: Apartheid’s dystopias abroad’.. In B. Nicholls (Ed.), Nadine Gordimer's July's People: A Routledge Study Guide (pp. 115-130). Routledge.
    2008 Van Der Vlies, A. (2008). Outside the nation(al): 'South African' print and book cultures, and global 'text-scapes'. In R. Fraser, & M. Hammond (Eds.), Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture (pp. 173-185). PALGRAVE.
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  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2006 Lipin, D. I., Chuan, Y. P., Neibert, M., Fan, Y. Y., & Middelberg, A. (2006). Processing and in vitro assembly of virus like particle nanostructures. In 2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, VOLS 1 AND 2 (pp. 1-+). AUSTRALIA, Brisbane: IEEE.

  • Original Creative Works
    Year Citation
    2021 Authors: van der Vlies A. Title: ‘Anxiety Sounds’, by Sheila Cussons.. Description: N/A. Extent: N/A.
    2021 Authors: van der Vlies A. Title: ‘Anxiety Sounds’, by Sheila Cussons.. Description: N/A. Extent: N/A.
    2021 Authors: van der Vlies A. Title: 'Three Poems' from MEMBRAAN', by Sheila Cussons. (Exile I. The ferret. Bee from Gingerbeer.). Description: N/A. Extent: 3 poems.
    2021 Authors: van der Vlies A. Title: 'Three Poems' from MEMBRAAN', by Sheila Cussons. (Exile I. The ferret. Bee from Gingerbeer.). Description: N/A. Extent: 3 poems.
    2020 Authors: van der Vlies A. Title: ‘The One About the Second Wave (After “Lament”)’. Description: N/A. Extent: 1-page poem.
    2020 Authors: van der Vlies A. Title: Sheila Cussons, two poems. (‘Exile II’ and ‘Supermarket’). Description: N/A. Extent: 2 poems.
    2020 Authors: van der Vlies A. Title: Sheila Cussons, two poems. (‘Exile II’ and ‘Supermarket’). Description: N/A. Extent: 2 poems.
    2005 Authors: Coetzee J. Title: Slow man. Description: 1st American ed. J. M. Coetzee is an author and academic from South Africa (now an Australian citizen living in South Australia). A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.. Extent: 265 pages; 22 cm..

  • Curated or Produced Public Exhibition or Events
    Year Citation
    2022 van der Vlies, A., Damon, G., & Chris, H. (2022). Promises Unkept: Damon Galgut with Andrew van der Vlies (No. Of Pieces: 47 mins) [Podcast with transcript]. United States of America: Public Books.
    2022 van der Vlies, A., Damon, G., & Chris, H. (2022). Promises Unkept: Damon Galgut with Andrew van der Vlies (No. Of Pieces: 47 mins) [Podcast with transcript]. United States of America: Public Books.

  • Internet Publications
    Year Citation
    2023 van der Vlies, A. (2023). Andy Warhol's Queer Practice: Disidentification and Utopian Desire. Art Gallery of South Australia.

  • Preprint
    Year Citation
    2019 Wakamori, M., Okabe, K., Ura, K., Funatsu, T., Takinoue, M., & Umehara, T. (2019). Quantification of the effect of site-specific histone acetylation on chromatin transcription rate.
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I have been awarded fellowships and grants by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust in the UK, the Harry Ransom Research Center in the US, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. I am at present co-investigator on a British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project on South African modernisms, 1880-1920. 

I convene courses on Queer theory and cultural production, and on Affect Studies and literature, run the Honours English Research Essay and Thesis courses, and teach into courses including Intro to English Studies and those on Modernisms, Decadence, and Victorian literatures. I am available to supervise MPhil and PhD projects on Queer studies, affect studies, postcolonial literatures, British, US and African literatures 1880-present, translation, and Book History. 

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Co-Supervisor Literary Modernism and Conservative Politics Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Charlotte Grace Minney
    2024 Principal Supervisor The Legacy of White Shame in Postapartheid South African Writing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Yin Gao
    2024 Principal Supervisor Mythologies of Queerness in Queer Arab/Muslim Anglophone Literature Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tamer Haj Ali
    2024 Principal Supervisor Gastro-Postmodernism: A Consumer's Guide Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Amy May Fischli
    2023 Co-Supervisor The Philosophical ‘Subject’ and Literary ‘Character’: Negotiating Identity in Modernist Texts by Women Authors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sophie Elinor Zadow
    2023 Co-Supervisor A Cinematic Reading of Faulkner's Novel Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Xinru Ma

  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2021 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Columbining: Mass Murder & Cinema Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Taylor Earl Westmacott
  • Position: Professor, English and Creative Writing
  • Phone: 83135618
  • Email: andrew.vandervlies@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier, floor 6
  • Org Unit: School of Humanities
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