Simon Van Schalkwyk

Senior Lecturer, English Studies, Wits University. Co-editor, Safundi. Academic Editor, JRB. Master of none.

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

@Rand_Water is throttling supply to @CityofJoburgZA and @JHBWater legal or constitutional? People in certain parts of Joburg haven't had a drop for more than two weeks. If @JHBWater can't get its act together, why should ordinary citizens suffer? We pay you. Sort it out.

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

@libertybirb hey just out of curiosity: is patterns tells stories still going on Spotify?

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

@CityPowerJhb outage in Melville since around 2am. Calls have vern logged: CPWEB4761976 and CPWEB4761945. Please escalate.

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

A couple of advanced shouts for the book. Link here: https://t.co/CTYfDQG5eh

@BloomsburyAcad #robertlowell

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

I'm pleased to announce that my first book, "Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War: Containment, Leakage, Anarchy" will be arriving this September via @BloomsburyAcad!

[Gregory Elich @GregoryElich]

The JRB presents an excerpt from a new edition of A Soviet Journey by Alex La Guma: A Critical Annotated Edition, edited by Christopher J Lee, with a preface from the late Blanche La Guma, and a foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
https://t.co/c0zyQQ1OQm

[Safundi @Safundi]

Safundi has a new double issue! Check out the editorial by Lead Editor Christopher J. Lee, introducing 2 roundtables on *Red Road to Freedom* by Tom Lodge and *The African Novel of Ideas* by Jeanne-Marie Jackson. It is available for free 👇👇👇 https://t.co/b9ul0HfHvV

[Safundi @Safundi]

*Safundi* has a new double issue out including a roundtable on Jeanne-Marie Jackson's *The African Novel of Ideas* (@PrincetonUPress). Check out the contribution from Zeyad El Nabolsy (@ZNabolsy) @YorkUniversity 👇

[Safundi @Safundi]

*Safundi* is seeking proposals for special issues for late 2025 and beyond. Please circulate!!! More information 👇👇👇🙏🙏🙏
https://t.co/EsYhBB5zNk

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

Please note a correction to the time: this will be happening in the am and not the pm as originally advertised.

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

In addition, he is currently co-editing three collaborative volumes on independent publishing in Africa, graffiti, and the role of audiences in live performance events.

Stop by if you can.

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

Dr Tom Penfold of University College London will be speaking to an aspect of his work under the tile, ‘Poetry NonScenes and Reading Emotions’, at this Friday's Department of English Seminar Series (Media Room, 13.15).

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

Previous publications include his first monograph, Black Consciousness and South Africa’s National Literature (2017), and a series of influential journal articles that introduced the Poets of No Sure Place to the African literary canon.

[Safundi @Safundi]

A new issue of *Safundi* is out! A special issue entitled *Anti-Apartheid Movements on Campus* guest edited by Derek Catsam (@dcatafrica). Check it out! 👇👇👇

https://t.co/P80vVGPdGn

[Simon Van Schalkwyk @WitsEnglish]

I'll be presenting a paper on Edgar Allan Poe's Antarctic, Heidegger's Dasein, and the Cape Dassie for Michael Titlestad and Samantha Vince's "Climate Change Imaginaries" seminar series later today. Stop by if you're curious.