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Dr Nicole Devarenne - Lecturer

Contact Details

E-Mail : N.Devarenne@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 38-4414
Room Location: 2.3, Tower Extension

Research Interests

Postcolonial literature and film (with a special focus on South Africa); ecocriticism; American postmodernism; postcolonial women's writing; literature in 'vernacular' linguistic varieties; creative writing (particularly poetry and fiction).

Currently at work on a monograph on the farm novel in South Africa, Britain and North America, a novel set in Washington D.C. during the Lewinsky scandal, and a collection of poems.

Selected Publications

''The Language of Ham and the Language of Cain: 'Dialect' and Linguistic Hybridity in the Work of Adam Small', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45:3 (September 2010), 389-408

'Nationalism and the Farm Novel in South Africa, 1883-2004', Journal of Southern African Studies, 35:3 (September 2009), 627-42

''A Language Heroically Commensurate with His Body': Fascism, Nationalism, and the Language of the Superhero Comic', International Journal of Comic Art, 10:1 (Spring 2008), 48-54

''In Hell You Hear Only Your Mother Tongue': Afrikaner Nationalist Ideology, Linguistic Subversion, and Cultural Renewal in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf', Research in African Literatures, 37:4 (November 2006), 105-20

'Communicating with Agaat', London Review of Books 27:15 (August 2005), 37-8



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