Grant
Andrews
Curriculum
Vitae
Address: 19 The Braids Road, Emmarentia, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2195
Phone: +27 71 847
2285
Work Email: Grant.Andrews@wits.ac.za
Personal Email:
gcandrews@gmail.com,
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SUMMARY
I am a hardworking and driven lecturer
and researcher currently permanently employed at the University of the
Witwatersrand School of Education. My research and teaching specialisations are
in gender and sexuality studies, decolonial theory in education, and queer
African literature and film. I am the recipient of the Mandela Rhodes
Scholarship as well as the Thuthuka Research Grant (2020-2022) for a multi-year
project on Queer Visualities in South Africa. I am committed to excellence in
teaching, with student evaluations consistently in the top quartile of
lecturers at my current university. I have a strong research profile with
multiple publications per year in WoS/ ISI-indexed journals. I serve as the section
editor (Southern African Literature in English) for the journal Tydskrif vir
Letterkunde (Journal for Literature), which is indexed by WoS/ ISI and MLA.
I have a monograph currently in press with UKZN Press titled Stories of
Fathers, Stories of the Nation, which has been adapted from my PhD on South
African literature that represents fatherhoods.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English Studies, University of
the Western Cape, 2016
Concentrations: South
African Literature, Gender Studies, Masculinities & History
Dissertation: Representations of Fatherhood and Paternal
Narrative Power in South African English Literature
Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Hermann Wittenberg
M.A. (Cum Laude), English Studies, Stellenbosch
University, 2010
Concentrations: Gender,
Culture and Trauma in Literature
Thesis: Representation
and Identity in the wake of 9/11
Thesis Advisor: Prof. Shaun Viljoen
B.A. Honours in English Studies (Cum
Laude), Stellenbosch University, 2008
Concentrations:
Teaching Theory, Cultural Studies, Modern Theory, Oceanic Passages and Creative
Writing. Research report on Fatherhood in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet
Violence of Dreams (2001)
B.A. Humanities, Stellenbosch
University, 2007
Courses: English Studies (Major),
Philosophy (Major), Psychology, Sociology, French and Art History
PROFESSIONAL
APPOINTMENTS
Lecturer, University of the
Witwatersrand, 2018-Present
Full-time
lecturer and researcher at the Wits School of Education
·
Course coordinator, Postgraduate
Certificate in Education (PGCE) Program, 2020
·
Course coordinator, English I
(EDUC1276A/ EDUC1228), 2018 – 2019
·
Undergraduate courses taught (2018-2020):
Media Studies, Critical Literacy (based on the work of Freire and Janks), Marginalised
Stories and Identities (Film and short stories course focusing on teaching
topics of race, gender and sexuality in texts), Academic Literacies.
·
Postgraduate courses taught (2018-2020):
Research Design & Methods (B.Ed. Honours Level), Visual Literacy and the
Role of Media in Education (B.Ed. Honours level)
Lecturer and Tutor, University of the
Western Cape, 2012-2016
Part-time
(sessional) lecturer and tutor, English Department
·
Lectured
English for Educational Development
(EED) 117 and 127 (Science), sharing responsibilities with co-lecturer and
course coordinator Kenneth Goodman, 2014 - 2016
·
Lectured
courses in EED 101
(Law), dealing with academic writing and reading skills to large lecture groups,
2014-2015
·
Course
coordinator for EED 151
(Nursing), creating course content and overseeing student and tutor admin, 2012
·
Tutored
English I courses
to students with varying skill levels, with many students who spoke English as
a second or third language, 2011 – 2016
POSTDOCTORAL
FELLOWSHIP
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stellenbosch
University, 2016-2017
Host: Dr Mathilda Slabbert, under
the title “Textual and Visual Performativity of Queer Identities and
Sexualities in South African Literary and Cultural Productions”. March 2016 –
December 2017
3 academic articles and an encyclopedia entry were produced
during this fellowship
POSTGRADUATE
SUPERVISION
Master’s Degree Research Supervision
1.
Student:
Phumla Sekhonyane, M.Ed. project: “An Examination of Rhetorical Strategies used
by South African Politicians.” Completed, Grad. December 2020. Student achieved
75% for her research report.
2.
Student:
Ariela Berkman, M.Ed. proposal stage: “A Marxist and Critical Literacy Approach
to the South African Education System.” Ongoing, Expected completion 2021.
3.
Student:
Lwando Majikijela, MA: “Representations of black queer identities in South
African film and visual cultures: Transgressive vulnerability as a mechanism
for imagining and claiming space, visibility and freedom.” Ongoing, Expected
completion 2021.
B.Ed. Honours Research Supervision
1.
Student:
Nazeerah Mia, project: “Using film and literature to promote critical literacy
in South African schools.” Passed, 2020.
2.
Student:
Thabiso Mogane, project: “Dethroning the Okonkwo Spirit: Pedagogical
Opportunities to Challenge Patriarchal Masculinities in English FET Prescribed
Literature.” Passed with distinction, 2019.
3.
Student:
Ariela Berkman, project: “Challenging Macbeth in South African
Education: A Feminist Analysis of Pedagogical Approaches and the Pervasiveness
of the Text in School and University Curricula.” Passed with distinction, 2019.
4.
Student:
Filipa Mateus, project: “Addressing bullying behaviour in South African English
classrooms: Perceptions and classroom practices of three high school English
teachers.” Passed with distinction, 2018.
PUBLICATIONS
Sole-Authored Book
1. Stories of Fathers, Stories of the
Nation: Fatherhood and Paternal Power in South African Literature. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
(UKZN) Press, In press. Publication: 2021.
Articles and essays in peer-reviewed professional
journals
1.
“YouTube
Queer Communities as Heterotopias: Space, Identity and ‘Realness’ in Queer
South African Vlogs.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 33.1 (2020).
2.
“Queer
Cyborgs in South African Speculative Fiction: Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
and The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden”. Scrutiny2 (2020).
3.
“Teaching
higher education courses on gender and sexuality in the wake of the Must Fall
movements: Mutual disruption through the lens of critical pedagogy”. Education
as Change 24 (2020).
4.
“The
Multiliteracies Learning Environment as Decolonial Nexus: Designing for
Decolonial Teaching in a Literacies Course at a South African University.” Scrutiny2
25.1 (2020). Co-Authors Ilse Fouché and Maria Prozesky.
5.
“The
Broken Mirror: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Perspective on John Trengove’s Film Inxeba
(The Wound).” Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and
Comparative Studies 10.1 (2019): 1-13.
6.
“The
Emergence of Black Queer Characters in Three Postapartheid Novels.” Tydskrif
vir Letterkunde 56.2 (2019): 1-9.
7.
“The
Queer Son and the Declining Patriarch in Post-Apartheid South African
Literature: The Subversive Symbol of Water in Mark Behr’s Kings of the Water.”
Journal of Literary Studies 35.2 (2019): 85-104.
8.
“The
Boundaries of Desire and Intimacy in Post-Apartheid South African Queer Film:
Oliver Hermanus’s Skoonheid”. Image & Text 31.1 (2018):
30-47.
Book Chapters
1.
“Queer
Critical Literacies”. The Critical Literacy Handbook. Co-Author: Navan
N. Govender. In press. Routledge, 2021.
2.
“Liminal
Spaces & Conflicts of Culture in South African Queer Films: Inxeba
[The Wound]” in ALT 36: African Literature Today 36 (2018).
Encyclopedia Entry
1. “Moffie”, in Global Encyclopedia
of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History. Ed. Howard
Chiang. (2019). Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Book and Film Reviews
1.
“Film
review: Moffie is a harrowing meditation on white masculinity”. The
Conversation Africa [online] (2020). URL: https://theconversation.com/film-review-moffie-is-a-harrowing-meditation-on-white-masculinity-133182
2.
“Review:
Submerged by Louis Wiid”. WritingThreeSixty 2.2 (2016):
58-64.
Manuscripts in Submission
1.
“South
African Queer Sons Challenging the White Father’s Legacy: Forging New Afrikaner
Male Identities in Etienne Kallos’s Die Stropers (The Harvesters)”.
Submitted to Film Criticism.
2.
“Reimagining
educational support in low-income, single-mother households: A feminist
perspective on adolescents’ narratives of father involvement”. Submitted to Education
as Change.
3.
“What
Boys Need to Learn About Gender: South African Male Teachers’ Perspectives on
Teaching Masculinity to High School Boys”. Submitted to Gender Studies. Co-Author:
Malan van der Walt.
4.
“Pedagogical
and decolonial affordances of group portfolio assessments for learning in South
African universities.” Submitted to Critical Studies in Teaching and
Learning. Co-Authors: Ilse Fouché, Laura Dison and Maria Prozesky.
Abstracts Accepted with Invitation for Submission
1.
“Developing
Academic Identities as Gay Lecturers at South African Universities: Two
Autoethnographic Narratives in Conversation”. Invitation to submit to Alternation
journal special issue on academic identities. Co-Author Henry Nichols.
2.
“Queer
critical literacies & initial teacher education: Transnational moments”.
Invitation to submit to book project Gender Diversity in English Language
Education: New Transnational Voices, under contract to Bloomsbury. Edited
by Darío Luis Banegas & Navan Govender. Co-Author Navan Govender.
PRESENTATIONS
1.
University
of the Witwatersrand “Press Pause” Emergency Remote Teaching Webinar Series,
presented a paper titled “Possibilities for Critical Literacy in Large Group
Online Teaching in South African Higher Education”, Online, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDCNCKdFruE
2.
Higher
Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa, presented a paper
titled “Beyond the essay: Pedagogical and decolonial affordances of group
assessment in South African universities”, Rhodes University, 2019
3.
International
Society for the Study of Gender and Love Conference, presented a paper titled
“YouTube Queer Communities as Heterotopias: Reimagining Space, Identity and
‘Realness’ in Queer South African Vlogs”, September 2019
4.
London
International Conference on Education, presented a paper titled “Teaching
gender and sexuality courses in initial teacher education: moments of mutual
disruption through the lens of critical pedagogy”, December 2018
5.
South
African Psychoanalytic Conference, presented a paper titled “The Broken Mirror:
Subject and Image Tensions Surrounding John Trengove’s Film Inxeba”, October
2018.
6.
Panel
at the African Literature Association Conference at Yale University, New Haven,
presenting a paper titled “Race and the Boundaries of Desire in South African
Queer Film: Oliver Hermanus’ Skoonheid”, 2017
7.
University
of Stellenbosch seminar series, presented a paper titled “The Queer Son and the
Declining Patriarch: Water as a Symbol of Change and Disruption in Mark Behr's
Kings of the Water”, 2016
8.
University
of the Western Cape English Department Conference, Place & Imagination, presented
a paper titled: “Shifting Paternal Narratives in South African Fiction”, 2015
RESEARCH
GRANTS
1.
National
Research Foundation
Thuthuka Grant for 3-year research project, to the value of ZAR436,393.00, 2020
- 2022
2.
National
Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant for converting PhD thesis
into a monograph, 2019
3.
Early
Career Academic Development Grant,
to the value of ZAR20,000 for research development and training, 2018
AWARDS
AND HONOURS
1.
Awarded
the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship, involving extensive training in the four
cornerstones: leadership, reconciliation, entrepreneurship and education, 2010
2.
Recipient
of the Babette Taute Scholarship for excellence in English Studies, 2008
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS
1.
International
Society for the Study of Gender and Love (2019 – Present)
2.
African
Literature Association (2017 – Present)
3.
Community
of Mandela Rhodes Scholars (2010 – Present)
UNIVERSITY
COMMITTEES
1.
Chair
of the Website and Marketing Committee at the Wits School of Education,
designing new marketing materials and coordinating updates and redesigns of the
School’s website, 2018-present
2.
Member
of the Transformation and Decolonisation committee at the WSoE, working with a
team to formulate a vision and mission around transformation and decolonisation,
and engaging with relevant stakeholders to ensure that the voices of staff,
students and the broader community are incorporated in transformation
practices, 2019
3.
Member
of the Literacies and Decoloniality Research Thrusts for joint research
projects, 2019 – present.
RESEARCH
PROJECTS AND LEADERSHIP
1.
Primary
researcher: Intersections of South African Queer Theory and Queer Visual
Culture. 2020 – 2022. As funded by the National Research Foundation
Thuthuka Grant to the value of ZAR436,393.
2.
Co-organiser
and facilitator of research seminars in the Division of Languages, Literacies
and Literatures, University of the Witwatersrand, 2018-present
JOURNAL
EDITING
1. Section editor (South African
English Literature) for the journal Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, (2020 –
Present). Website: https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/
I have reviewed and edited a total of 8 articles in this
role, making editorial decisions, contacting and assigning peer reviewers, and
copyediting articles that were accepted for publication.
PEER
REVIEWING OF ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
I
review articles for a wide range of academic journals, including:
- Education as Change
- Gender Questions
- Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies
- Journal of Literary Studies
- NORMA (International Journal for Masculinity Studies)
- Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
In
addition, I have reviewed a chapter for the following book:
·
The
Handbook of Critical Literacies
(Routledge, In press, 2021)
REVIEW
FOR NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCILS
1.
Completed
2 reviews for researcher rating applications for the National Research
Foundation (South Africa), 2016, 2020
2.
Completed
assessment of research proposal (5-year research project proposal from an
established professor) for National Research Foundation (South Africa), 2020
EXTERNAL
EXAMINING OF COURSES, EXAMS AND THESES
1.
Served
as program reviewer and external examiner for the courses LCC 732 (Research
Report) and LCC 729 (Gender and Literature, Honours Level), University of
Pretoria, 2020
2.
Served
as external examiner for examination and course EPS10A3 (Education Studies -
English for the Primary School, 1st year course), University of
Johannesburg, 2020
3.
Examined
a PhD proposal for the Department of Psychology, University of the
Witwatersrand, 2020, Area: Psychoanalysis and gender studies
4.
Examined
an MA thesis at the University of the Western Cape English Department, 2019.
Area: Education and literary studies.
COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
1.
SafeZones@Wits
ally, receiving training on counseling and referral for LGBTQI+ students at the
University of the Witwatersrand and acting as a mentor and lay counselor, 2018
- Present
2.
Pink
Umbrella and Spectrum groups facilitation: Co-facilitator of a series of
workshops with queer or questioning at-risk men at Stellenbosch University,
2015 – 2017
3.
Served
as mentor to a Mandela Rhodes Scholar, 2017
4.
Offer
a range of free academic literacy and postgraduate readiness materials online at
www.writeyourthesis.com, 2016 - Present
5.
Trained
as a lay counselor for those affected by spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), 2013