Papers at Conferences

Mengel, Ewald: "The Role of Transitional Objects in the Contemporary South African Trauma Novel". Cognitive Cultural Criticism, October 4-5, 2012, University of Vienna.

Mengel, Ewald: "Trauma and Art in the Contemporary South African Novel". 2nd Global Conference: Trauma: Theory and Practice, March 21-24, 2012, Prague.

Mengel, Ewald: "Trauma, Memory, and Narrative: Attempting a Summary". Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel, April 8-11, 2010, University of Vienna.

Borzaga, Michela: "Living with My Perpetrators: A Question of Power by Bessie Head". Beyond Reconciliation: Dealing with the Aftermath of Mass Trauma and Political Violence, December 2-6, 2009, University of Cape Town. (paper accepted for presentation)

Orantes, Karin: "South African Memoirs". Postcolonial Translocations: 20th Annual GNEL/ASNEL Conference, May 21-24, 2009, University of Munster.

Mengel, Ewald: "Truth and Reconciliation in the Contemporary South African Novel". Memory, Narrative, and Forgiveness: Reflecting on Ten Years of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, November 23-27, 2006, University of Cape Town, South Africa. (paper accepted for publication)

Borzaga, Michela: "Coetzee the Poet: In the Heart of Language". A Dialog Conference on J.M. Coetzee, South African Nobel Prize Winner, June 22-24, 2006, University of Salzburg.

Mengel, Ewald: "J.M. Coetzee and the Contemporary South African Novel". A Dialog Conference on J.M. Coetzee, South African Nobel Prize Winner, June 22-24, 2006, University of Salzburg.

Borzaga, Michela: "From Tatamkhulu Afrika to Questions of Literary and Cultural History". First Joint Symposium: South Africa in Perspective, December 2004, University of Salzburg.

Teaching

"Black African Novels in English"
Literature Course (fall semester 2012; English Department, University of Vienna)

"The Contemporary South African Farm Novel"
Literary Seminar (spring semester 2012; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel, III" Literature Course (spring semester 2012; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel, II"
Literature Course (fall semester 2010/11; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Narrating Trauma in the Contemporary South African Novel"
Literature Course (spring semester 2010; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel"
Literature Course (fall semester 2009/10; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Art and Reality in the Contemporary South African Novel"
Literary Seminar (spring semester 2009; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Trauma, Memory and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel"
Literary Seminar (spring semester 2008; English Department, University of Vienna)

"The Contemporary South African Novel: New Voices"
Literary Seminar (spring semester 2007; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Contemporary South African Fiction"
Literature Course (spring semester 2006; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Winds of Change in the Contemporary South African Novel"
Literary Seminar (fall semester 2005/06; English Department, University of Vienna)

"Truth and Reconciliation in the Contemporary South African Novel"
Literary Seminar (spring semester 2005; English Department, University of Vienna)