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Books
Books

2024

Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery and Sarah Nuttall (eds), Reading for Water: Materiality and Method (London: Routledge, 2024).

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2023

Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery (eds), Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

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Charne Lavery and Sarah Nuttall (eds), Reading from the South: African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's Work (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2023).

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2022

Isabel Hofmeyr, Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022 and Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022).

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2021

Charne Lavery, Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

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Special Issues
Special Issues

2025

Isabel Hofmeyr and Saarah Jappie, 'Archiving Environmental Change', special issue of Kronos, 51 (1) 2025.

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2022

Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery and Sarah Nuttall, 'Reading for Water,' special issue of Interventions, 24 (3) 2022.

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2021

Stephanie Jones and Charne Lavery, 'Water,' special issue of Wasafiri, 36 (2) 2021.

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2020

Charne Lavery and Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Thinking Oceanically: Ilha de Moçambique/Island of Mozambique,' special issue of Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 60 (4) 2020.

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2019

Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Literary Ecologies of the Indian Ocean,' special issue of English Studies in Africa, 62 (1) 2019.

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Articles and Chapters
Journal Articles & Book Chapters

2025

Isabel Hofmeyr and Saarah Jappie, 'Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network', Kronos, 51 (1) 2025: 12-20.
 

Isabel Hofmeyr, 'There's a Bug in my Media: Insects, Colonial Archives and Book History', Kronos, 51 (1) 2025: 21-31.

 

Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton, Charne Lavery, Mehita Iqani, and Jean Brundrit, ‘Polar Fried Chicken? Tensions Between Public Engagement and Fast-food Marketing in KFC South Africa’s Beyond the Sea Campaign’, The Polar Journal, 15 (1) 2025, 10-33.

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2024

​Charne Lavery, 'Tsunami, Tornado, Tide: Life and Writing in Selected Nonfiction by Amitav Ghosh,' in Writing Southern Lives, eds. Elleke Boehmer and Katie Collins (London: Bloomsbury, 2024), 131-144.

 

Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton, 'Restless Remains and Untimely Returns: On Walking and Wading,', in Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans: Political and Scholarly Possibilities, eds. Tamara Shefer, Vivienne Bozalek and Nike Romano (London: Routledge, 2024), 78-100.

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2023

Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery, 'Introduction: Maritime Im/Mobilities,' in Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture, eds. Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery (London: Palgrave, 2023), 1-17.

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Jauquelyne Kosgei, 'Ngomeni, Fort Jesus: A Digo Home, not a Portuguese Fortress,' Parallax, 28 (1) 2023: 91-104.

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Charne Lavery, 'Multispecies and Multispirited Seas: Submersion and the Gothic in Two South African Fictions,' in Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters, eds. Diana Sandars and Allison Craven, Routledge, 2023, 87-102.

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Charne Lavery, ‘“Spoken Nowhere but on the Water”: Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Lost-and-Found Languages of the Indian Ocean World’. Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture, edited by Alexandra Ganser and Charne Lavery (London: Palgrave, 2023), 235-247.

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Charne Lavery, 'Submerging the South: Storying the Deep Indian Ocean'/'The Southern Submarine: Storying the Deep Indian Ocean,' in The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South, eds. Afred J. López and Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo (London: Routledge, 2023), 134-142.

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Elizabeth Leane, Charne Lavery and Meredith Nash, '"The Only Almost Germ-free Continent Left": Pandemics and Purity in Cultural Perceptions of Antarctica,' Environmental Humanities, 15 (1) 2023: 109-127.

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Mapule Mohulatsi, 'Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa,' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 35 (1) 2023: 121-133.

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Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton, 'Ultramarine: On Aftermaths, Afterlives and Afterimages,' in In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism, eds. Karin Murris and Vivienne Bozalek (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), 105-126.

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2022

Joni Brenner, Isabel Hofmeyr and Charne Lavery, 'Water/Colour/Bead,' Multimodality & Society, 2 (2) 2022: 131-140.

 

Jonathan Cane, 'Penguins of the Global South Unite!,' in Das Bauhaus verfehlen / Missing the Bauhaus, eds. Alexander Opper, Katharina Fink and Nadine Siegert (Bayreuth: iwalewabooks, 2022), 32-49.

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Isabel Hofmeyr and Charne Lavery, 'Oceanic Humanities for Blue Heritage,' in The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage, eds. Rosabelle Boswell, David O’Kane and Jeremy Hills (London: Palgrave, 2022), 31-40.

 

Isabel Hofmeyr, Sarah Nuttall and Charne Lavery, 'Reading for Water,' Interventions, 24 (3) 2022: 303-322.

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Confidence Joseph, 'A Mermaid in a Dry City: A Watery Reading of Yvonne Vera's Butterfly Burning,' Interventions, 24 (3) 2022: 374-388.

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Meghan Judge, 'Escaping Seascape at the Shoreline of Toamasina in Madagascar,' South African Journal of Art History, 37 (1) 2023: 70-84.

 

Jauquelyne Kosgei, 'Swahili Seafarers’ Musings and Sensuous Seascapes in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea,' Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 8 (1-2) 2022: 6-19.

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Charne Lavery, 'Postcolonial Plumbing: Reading for Water in Antjie Krog’s A Change of Tongue,' Interventions, 24 (3) 2022: 355-368.

 

Charne Lavery, 'The Southern Indian Ocean and the Oceanic South,' Global Nineteenth Century Studies, 1 (1) 2022: 63-72.

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2021

Jonathan Cane, 'Concrete Oceans: The Dolos, Apartheid Engineering and the Intertidal Zone,' GeoHumanities, 7(1) 2021: 44–64.

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Isabel Hofmeyr and Charne Lavery, 'Reading in Antarctica,' Wasafiri, 36 (2) 2021: 79–86.

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Jauquelyne Kosgei, 'Indigenous Knowledge and Marine Conservation in Oral Poems from the Kenyan Coast,' Wasafiri, 36 (2) 2021: 71–78.

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Stephanie Jones and Charne Lavery, 'On Water,' Wasafiri, 36 (2) 2021: 1-2.

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Charne Lavery, 'Representations: Lascars, Drifters, Aquanauts,' in A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Empire, ed. Margaret Cohen (London: Bloomsbury, 2021), 177-202.

 

Laura Pereira, Charne Lavery, Busiso Moyo, Nadia Sitas, Rike Sitas, Odirilwe Selomane, Christopher Trisos, Olive Zgambo, 'Wakanda Phambili: African Science Fiction Prototyping for Reimagining the Anthropocene', in Futures, eds. Sandra Kemp and Jenny Andersson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 262-280.

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2020

Anézia António Asse, 'A Marine Archaeologist Reads Mia Cuoto,' Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 6 (4) 2020: 214-218.

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Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Imperialism Above and Below the Water Line: Making Space Up (and Down) in a Colonial Port City,' Interventions, 22 (8) 2020: 1032-1044.

 

Isabel Hofmeyr, 'In the Custom House,' in Further Reading, eds. Matthew Rubery and Leah Price (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 38-50.

 

Charne Lavery and Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Thinking Oceanically: Ilha de Moçambique/Island of Mozambique,' Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 6 (4) 2020: 211-213.

 

Charne Lavery, 'Diving into the Slave Wreck: The São José Paquete d’Africa and Yvette Christiansë’s Imprendehora,' Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 6 (4) 2020: 269-283.

 

Charne Lavery, 'Thinking from the Southern Ocean,' in Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care, eds. Kate Johnson, Elspeth Probyn and Nancy Lee (London and Melbourne: Rowan and Littlefield, 2020), 307-318.

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Phindi Mnyaka, 'Lady Kennaway: A ship story,' Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 6 (4) 2020: 285-294.

 

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2019

Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Literary Ecologies of the Indian Ocean,' English Studies in Africa, 62 (1) 2019: 1-7.

 

Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Provisional Notes on Hydrocolonialism,' English Language Notes, 57 (1) 2019: 11-20.

 

Isabel Hofmeyr 'O Mar Problematizador: O Oceano Índico Como Método,' in Estudos Sobre O Oceano Índico: Antologia de Textos Teóricos, orgs. Ana Mafalda Leite, Elena Brugioni and Jessica Falconi (Lisboa: Edições Colibri/CEsA, 2019), 101-115.

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Charne Lavery, 'Antarctica and Africa: Narrating Alternate Futures,' Polar Record, 55 (5) 2019: 347-350.

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Meg Samuelson and Charne Lavery, 'The Oceanic South,' English Language Notes, 57 (1) 2019: 37-50.

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2018

Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Southern by Degrees: Islands and Empires in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, and the Subantarctic World,' in The Global South Atlantic, eds. Kerry Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018), 81-96.

 

Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Port Cities: Material Histories and Intellectual Property,' Comparative Literature, 70 (3) 2018: 264-277.

Polupar Media
Popular Media

2023

Killian Quigley, Charne Lavery and Laurence Publicover, ‘A Call for Humanities at the Seabed’, Edge Effects, 2023, https://edgeeffects.net/seabed-humanities/.

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2022

Charne Lavery, 'Four Novelists, One Ocean: How Indian Ocean Literature can Remap the World,' The Conversation, 7 June 2022, https://theconversation.com/four-novelists-one-ocean-how-indian-ocean-literature-can-remap-the-world-184080

Translated into Malayalam:
https://www.keraleeyammasika.com/indian-ocean-writing-amithav-ghosh-abdurazak-gurana-novels-study/

 

 

2020

Isabel Hofmeyr and Charne Lavery, 'Exploring the Indian Ocean as a Rich Archive of History –Above and Below the Water Line,' The Conversation, 7 June 2020, 
https://theconversation.com/exploring-the-indian-ocean-as-a-rich-archive-of-history-above-and-below-the-water-line-133817#comment_2409999

Translated into French: 
https://theconversation.com/locean-indien-une-veritable-archive-pour-aborder-autrement-lhistoire-du-monde-153228

Bahasa Indonesia:
https://theconversation.com/menjelajahi-samudra-hindia-arsip-sejarah-yang-kaya-di-permukaan-dan-di-dalam-laut-152690

Portuguese: 
https://theconversation.com/exploramos-el-oceano-indico-como-si-fuera-un-archivo-historico-por-encima-y-por-debajo-de-su-superficie-151506

 

 

2019

Charne Lavery and Meg Samuelson, 'Literature Sheds Light on the History and Mystery of the Southern Ocean,' The Conversation, 6 October 2019, https://theconversation.com/literature-sheds-light-on-the-history-and-mystery-of-the-southern-ocean-122664

 

Charne Lavery and Meg Samuelson, 'Our Ocean has the Blues,' The Cape Argus and , 14 October 2019, https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/opinion/our-ocean-has-the-blues-34679508

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2018

Isabel Hofmeyr, 'Oceans as Empty Spaces? Redrafting our Knowledge by Dropping the Colonial Lens,' The Conversation, 6 September 2018, https://theconversation.com/oceans-as-empty-spaces-redrafting-our-knowledge-by-dropping-the-colonial-lens-102778

Retweeted by the Mellon Foundation: https://twitter.com/MellonFdn/status/1038069623294504960

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