Previous Positions

Visiting Scholar, History of Dance, Academy of the Arts in Arezzo (Italy), (Summers of 1986 and 1987).

Visiting Professor, Institute of English Philology, University of Lodz (Poland) (1982-1983).

Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of Nairobi (Kenya)---(1979-1980).

Scholar-in-Residence, Frantz Fanon Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Drew University of Science and Medicine---Los Angeles (1974-1979).

Education:

University of California in Los Angeles (B. A. [1972], M. A. [1974], Ph. D. [1977]).

Technical University of West Berlin (1985-1988, postdoctoral work).

Membership in Professional Organizations:

Modern Languages Association of America African Studies Association African Literature association

Publications:

Constructing a Website called: New African Intellectuals in South Africa. It is composed of approximately 210 New African writers, intellectuals, artists, and political leaders who were fundamental in the making of New African modernity between the years 1850 and 1960. It may eventually turn into a CD ROM.

Edited Books:

*Black Modernity: Discourses Between United States and South Africa (in press: Africa World Pess, 2003).

To Change Reels: Film and Film Culture in South Africa, with Isabel Balseiro (forthcoming, Wayne State University Press, 2003).

*The New African Movement: A South African Reader in Modernity and Modernism (forthcoming: Africa World Press, 2004).

*The Critical and Poetic Writings of H. I. E. Dhlomo (in preparation: Africa World Press, 2003). A Centennial Publication.

Critical Biography:

*The Modernity of H. I. E. Dhlomo (1903-1956): South Africa in The Modern World (in preparation; Africa World Press, 2003). A Centennial Publication.

*Texts to appear in the African Renaissance Series of the Africa World Press, of which I'm the General Editor. The first book in the Series has recently appeared: African Sociology---Towards A Critical Perspective: The Collected Essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane (Africa World Press, 2000). Foreword by Ntongela Masilela.

Chapters or Essays in Books:

"The Vernacular and African Literature", in Encyclopedia of African Literature, (ed.) Simon Gikandi [in press, Routledge: London, 2003].

"South African Language Literatures", in Encyclopedia of African Literature, (ed.) Simon Gikandi [in press, Routledge: London, 2003].

"Is There a South African National Cinema?", in Jarhbuch 2000 fur Kunste and Apparate [2000 Yearbook for Art and Technology], (eds.) Thomas Hensel and Hans Ulrich Reck and Siegfried Zielinski, Verlag Walther Konig, Koln [Cologne, Germany], 2000, pp. 232- 237.

"Keyan Tomaselli and Cultural Studies in South Africa", in Cultural Studies: A Research Volume (Volume 5), (ed.) Norman K. Denzin, Jai Press Inc., Stamford (Connecticut), 2000, pp. 39-41.

"Foreword: Foreshadowings in the Making of an 'African Renaissance"', in African Sociology---Towards A Critical Perspective: The Collected Essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane, Africa World Press, Trenton, 2000, pp. ix-xviii.

"Women Directors of the Los Angeles School", in Black Women Film and Video Artists, (ed.) Jacqueline Bobo, Routledge, London, 1998, pp. 21-41.

"Pan-Africanism or Classical African Marxism?", in Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora, (eds.) Sidney J. Lemelle and Robin D. G. Kelley, Verso, London, 1994, pp. 308-330.

"The Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", in Black American Cinema, (ed.) Manthia Diawara, Routledge, London, 1993, pp. 107-117.

"Preface: Establishing an Intellectual Bridge", in Rethinking Culture, (ed.) Keyan Tomaselli, Anthropos Publishers, Johannesburg, 1988, pp. 1-5.

"The Moments of 'Voorslag' and 'Sestigers' in Our Literary History", in South African Literature: From Popular Culture to the Written Artifact, (eds.) Robert Kriger and Wolfgang Schafer, Evangalische Akademie Bad Boll, Stuttgart, 1988, pp. 93-102.

"Issues and Problems in the African Cinema", Cultural Development: Science and Technology in Sub-Sahara Africa, (eds.) Klaus Gottstein and Gotz Link, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1986, pp. 141-157.

"Introduction: Conceptual Constructs Towards African Philosophy", in African Philosophy: Assumptions and Paradigms for Research on Black Persons, (eds.) Lewis M. King, Vernon J. Dixon, Wade W. Nobles, Fanon Center Publication, Los Angeles, 1976, pp. 1-3.

Essays in Academic journals:

"Thelma Gutsche: A Great South African Film Scholar", Critical Arts: A Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 14 no. 2, 2000, pp.49-79.

"New Negroism and New Africanism: The Influence of United States Modernity on the Construction of South African Modernity", Black Renaissance Noire, vol. 2 no. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 46-59.

"Presence Africaine and the Emergence of African Film Criticism", Communicare, vol. 15 no. 1. Winter 1996, pp. 1-44.

"The 'Black Atlantic' and African Modernity in South Africa", Research in African Literatures, vol. 27 no. 4, Winter 1996, pp. 88-96.

"The Return of Mazisi Kunene to South Africa: The End of an Intellectual Chapter in our Literary History", Ufahamu: The Journal of African Activist Association, vol. XXI no. III, Fall 1993, pp. 7-15.

"Discussion: People of the Great Sandface", with Keyan Tomaselli, Teshome Gabriel, Arnie Williams, Visual Anthropology, vol. 5 (1992), pp. 153-166.

"Sudafrikanische Fotografie aus der Ara der Sophiatown Renaissance", Fotogeschichte (Frankfurt), Heft 36 (1990), pp. 97-100.

"Zur Erinnerung an Alvin Ailey", Tanz Aktuell (West Berlin), Marz 1990, pp. 10-11.

"Sterling A. Brown: The Last of the Harlem Renaissance Greats", Presence Africaine (Paris), 4th Quarterly 1988.

Reviews:

A review of Xhosa Poets and Poetry by Jeff Opland in Journal of American Folklore (forthcoming).

A review of Senses of Culture: South African Cultural Studies edited by Sarah Nuttall and Cherly-Ann Michaels in Critical Arts: A Journal of Cultural Studies (forthcoming).

A review of Rereading The Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje by Laura Chrisman in Black Scholar, vol. 34 no. 3-4, Fall/Winter 2001, pp. 67-68.

A review of South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protests and Resistance, 1880s-1960s edited by Les Switzer in Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 32 no. 1, 1998, pp. 244-246.

A review of The Cinema Of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film by Keyan Tomaselli in The Independent, March 1989, pp. 15-17.
A review of Reading Dancing by Susan Forster in Tanz Aktuell (West Berlin), March 1989, p. 38.

A review of Dance Writings by Edwin Denby in Tanz Aktuell, October 1988, p. 37.

A review of Poetry and Humanism: Oral Beginnings by Es'kia Mphahlele in Research in African Literatures, vol. 19 no. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 117-121.

A review of The World Of Nat Nakasa edited by Essop Patel in Matatu, no. 3-4, 1988, pp. 276-281.

A review of South Africa: The Privileged and the Dispossessed Edited by Geoffrey Davis and Michael Senior in Research in African Literatures, vol. 15 no. 3, Fall 1984, pp. 474-477.

A review of Songs That Won The Liberation War by Alec J. C. Pongweni in Research in African Literatures, vol. 15 no. 4, Winter
1984, pp. 596-598.

Other Tasks:

Associate Editor (Dance Theory) of Tanz Aktuell (West Berlin), March 1987-June 1990.

Associate Editor (Media Studies) of Critical Arts (Durban, South Africa), June 1992-December 1995.