About Keli Rowley

I am in my last year as an English M.A. student and Teaching Associate at California State University – Northridge. I first became interested in J. M. Coetzee’s work in Dr. Barnard’s African Film and Literature course where we not only examined Coetzee’s work Foe, but also the works of African authors Chinua Achebe, Ousmane Sembène and Ama Ata Aidoo. I am very excited to learn more about Coetzee and his diverse range of works in this seminar class. I also have an interest in South African playwright Athol Fugard’s work, in Donald Woods’ book Biko and in Mark Mathabane’s book Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography – The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa.

I am particularly excited to learn about South African culture in relation to Coetzee’s work because I will be vacationing in South Africa for 4 weeks in January. It has been a dream of mine to travel there for many years.

My current research interests include Transnational Africa/African Diaspora Studies, Film and Visual Culture, Culture and Theory, Psychoanalytic theory, Literature of Human Rights, Representations of Evil in Literature, Dystopian Sci-Fi and Pedagogy. I plan to begin a Ph.D. program in literature in Fall 2012.