Prof Susan Kossew - Researcher Profile

Biography

Sue is Professor of English in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies and is currently the Head of School.

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Research & Supervision Interests

The literary works of J. M. Coetzee

Kate Grenville's literary works

Postcolonial literatures including South African and Australian literature

Postcolonial Women's Writing especially Australian and South African women writers

Representing violence and trauma in literature

Literature of apology and reconciliation

Keywords

Literary Studies; Australian literature; South African Literature; Postcolonial Studies

Qualifications

PHD IN ENGLISH

Institution: University of New South Wales

Year awarded: 1993

MASTER OF ARTS

Institution: University of East Anglia, England

Year awarded: 1987

BA (HONS)

Institution: University of Cape Town

Year awarded: 1973

Publications

Books

Danta, C., Kossew, S.R., Murphet, J. (eds), 2011, Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, Continuum International, London, United Kingdom.

Kossew, S.R. (ed), 2010, Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville, Rodopi, Amsterdam.

Kossew, S., 2004, Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction, Routledge, London, UK.

Kossew, S., Schwerdt, D. (eds), 2001, Re-Imagining Africa: New Critical Perspectives, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Huntington NY, USA.

Kossew, S. (ed), 1998, Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee, G.K. Hall & Co., New York, USA.

Kossew, S., 1997, Pen and Power: A Post-Colonial Reading of J.M. Coetzee and Andre Brink, Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam-Atlanta GA, USA.

Book Chapters

Kossew, S.R., 2012, Trauma, memory, and the history in Marlene van Niekerk's The Way of Women, in Cross Cultures: Readings in Post / Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English, eds Ewald Mengel and Michela Borzaga, Rodopi, Amsterdam New York NY, pp. 365-378.

Frawley, O., Kossew, S., 2011, Irish and Australian historical fiction, in Exhuming Passions: The Pressure of the Past in Ireland and Australia, eds Katie Holmes and Stuart Ward, Irish Academic Press, Dublin Ireland, pp. 187-206.

Kossew, S., 2011, Literary migration: shifting borders in coetzee's Australian novels, in Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, eds Chris Danta, Sue Kossew, Julian Murphet, Continuum International, London, UK, pp. 113-124.

Kossew, S., 2011, Scenes from provincial life (1997-2009), in A Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee, eds Tim Mehigan, Camden House, Rochester, New York, USA, pp. 9-22.

Kossew, S., 2010, Constructions of nation and gender in The Idea of Perfection, in Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville, eds Sue Kossew, Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, NY, pp. 153-166.

Kossew, S., 2010, Introduction, in Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville, eds Sue Kossew, Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, NY, pp. 11-21.

Kossew, S., 2009, "Pip in the Pacific": Reading as sensation in Lloyd Jones's Mr Pip, in Literature and Sensation, eds Anthony Uhlmann, Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan and Stephen McLaren, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, pp. 280-289.

Kossew, S., 2009, Border crossings: self and text, in J.M. Coetzee in Context and Theory, eds Elleke Boehmer, Katy Iddiols and Robert Eaglestone, Continuum International, London, UK and New York, USA, pp. 60-70.

Kossew, S., 2007, Narrating change and transformation in post-Apartheid South Africa: Antjie Krog's A Change of Tongue, in Postcolonial (Dis)Affections, eds Walter Gobel and Saskia Schabio, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier, Germany, pp. 73-83.

Kossew, S., 2005, A violent state: truth and reconciliation in Gillian Slovo's Red Dust (2000) and Jann Turner's Southern Cross (2002), in Violence and Transgression in World Minority Literatures, eds Rudiger Ahrens, Maria Herrara-Sobek, Karin Ikas and Francisco A. Lomeli, Universitatsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 305-317.

Kossew, S., 2001, "Something Terrible Happened": Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun and the politics of violence and recovery in post-Apartheid South Africa, in Re-Imagining Africa: new Critical Perspectives, eds Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Huntington NY, USA, pp. 133-143.

Kossew, S., Schwerdt, D., 2001, Introduction, in Re-Imagining Africa: new Critical Perspectives, eds Sue Kossew and Dianne Schwerdt, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Huntington NY, USA, pp. 1-8.

Kossew, S., 1998, "Women's Words": a reading of J.M. Coetzee's women narrators, in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee, eds Sue Kossew, G.K. Hall & Co., New York, USA, pp. 166-179.

Kossew, S., 1998, From Eliza to Elisabeth: Andre Brink's version of the Eliza Fraser story, in Constructions of Colonialism: Perspectives on Eliza Frazer's Shipwreck, eds Ian J. McNiven, Lynette Russell and Kay Schaffer, Leicester University Press, London, UK, pp. 126-137.

Kossew, S., 1998, Introduction, in Critical Essays on J.M. Coetzee, eds Sue Kossew, G.K. Hall & Co., New York, USA, pp. 1-17.

Kossew, S., 1996, Re/presenting the Afrikaner: Andre Brink and the politics of representation, in Africa Today: A Multi-Disciplinary Snapshot of the Continent in 1995, eds Peter F. Alexander, Ruth Hutchison and Deryck Schreuder, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia, pp. 221-231.

Journal Articles

Kossew, S., 2010, Re-reading the past: monuments, history and representation in short stories by Ivan Vladislavic and Zoe Wicomb, Journal Of Southern African Studies [P], vol 36, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 571-582.

Kossew, S., 2010, Writing self as other: J. M. Coetzee's "life writing" in Scenes from Provincial Life, Forum for World Literature Studies [P], vol 2, issue 3, Richard Nie, Ed. & Pub., Lafayette, USA, pp. 363-375.

Kossew, S., 2008, Repositioning the borderlines of race: Zoe Wicomb's Playing in the Light, Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht [P], vol XXXIX, issue 2/3, Verlag Koenigshausen und Newmann GmbH, Germany, pp. 197-206.

Kossew, S., 2007, Coetzee in context: recent approaches to the work of J. M. Coetzee, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies [P], vol 13, issue 1, Georgia Southern University, Department of Literature and Philosophy, United States of America, pp. 57-64.

Kossew, S., 2007, Traditions in transit: Review of David Attwell's Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History, Postcolonial Studies [P], vol 10, issue 3, Routledge, Australia, pp. 337-341.

Kossew, S., 2007, Voicing the "Great Australian Silence": Kate Grenville's narrative of settlement in The Secret River, Journal Of Commonwealth Literature [P], vol 42, issue 2, Sage Publications Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 7-18.

Kossew, S., 2005, Giving voice: narrating silence, history and memory in Andre Brink's The Other Side of Silence and Before I Forget, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde [P], vol 42, issue 1, Foundation for Education Science and Technology, South Africa, pp. 134-146.

Kossew, S., 2005, Writing, representing and reading violence: literature and responsibility, Te Awatea Review [P], vol December, University of Canterbury, Te Awatea Violence Research Centre, New Zealand, pp. 14-15.

Kossew, S., 2003, Beyond the national: exile and belonging in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup, Scrutiny2: issues in English studies in Southern Africa [P], vol 8, issue 1, UniSA Press, South Africa, pp. 21-26.

Kossew, S., 2003, History and place: an interview with Daphne Marlatt, Canadian Literature [P], vol Autumn, University of British Columbia, Canada, pp. 49-56.

Kossew, S., 2003, The politics of shame and redemption in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Research In African Literatures [P], vol 34, issue 2, Indiana University Press, United States of America, pp. 155-162.

Kossew, S., 2001, Living in Hope: an interview with Nadine Gordimer, Commonwealth Essays and Studies [P], vol July, Universite de Paris III (Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Dijon, France, pp. 55-62.

Kossew, S., 2001, Murdering the muse: creativity and violence in Sue Woolfe's Painted Woman, Transnational Literature [E], vol CRNLE 2001, Flinders University, Humanities Research Centre, Adelaide SA, Australia, pp. 32-41.

Kossew, S., 2000, "Something Terrible Happened": Nadine Gordimer's The House Gun and the politics of violence and recovery in post-Apartheid South Africa, Mots [P], vol 13, University of Western Australia, School of European Languages, Perth WA, Australia, pp. 1-7.

Kossew, S., 2000, The voice of the times: Fin-de-siecle and the voice of doom in Thea Astley's Drylands, Transnational Literature [E], vol CRNLE 2000, Flinders University, Humanities Research Centre, Adelaide SA, Australia, pp. 177-183.

Kossew, S., 2000, 'White' South African writing and the politics of resistance, Anglophonia: French journal of English studies [P], vol 7, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, France, pp. 179-188.

Kossew, S., 1999, Resistance, complicity and South African post-colonial politics, Critical Survey [P], vol 11, issue 2, Berghahn Books Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 18-30.

Kossew, S., 1997, Reinventing history; reimagining the novel: the politics of reading Andre Brink's Imagnings of Sand, Journal of Literary Studies (Tydskrif vir Literatuurwetenskap) [P], vol 13, issue 1/2, UniSA Press, South Africa, pp. 113-126.

Kossew, S., 1996, The anxiety of authorship: J. M. Coetzee's Master of Petersburg and Andre Brink's Imaginings of Sand, English in Africa [P], vol 20, issue 1, Rhode's University, Institude for the Study of English in Africa, South Africa, pp. 67-88.

Kossew, S., 1995, Writing in the new South Africa: an interview with Andre Brink, Commonwealth Essays and Studies [P], vol 18, issue i, Universite de Paris III (Sorbonne-Nouvelle), France, pp. 73-77.

Kossew, S., 1993, "Women's Words": a reading of J.M. Coetzee's women narrators, Span [P], vol 37, South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Fiji, pp. 1-9.