Baron Glanvill

Ph.D. Student

Area of Study

PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies

Bio

My research interests lie at the intersection of literary representations of the environment and postcolonial studies.

Education

2020-2026 (expected): PhD Candidate English, Literary and Culture Studies: Carnegie Mellon University.

Dissertation title: "Safari-Form: Contesting the Cultural Imagination of Wildlife Conservation in Southern African Literary Representation" Advisors: Dr Marian Aguiar, Dr Kirk B. Sides, and Dr. Christopher Warren.

2013-2017: MA, Literatures in English. University of the Witwatersrand (research only).

2011-2012: Honors, Literatures in English. University of the Witwatersrand.

2009-2011: BA, English Literature and African History. University of the Witwatersrand.

Research

Global Anglophone, African literature, Postcolonialism, Environmental Humanities, Space and Mobilities, Cultural Studies, Decoloniality/Modernity, Modernism.

Publications

“Ubu and the Truth Commission: The Multiple Contexts of the TRC and Ubu,” in The Culture of Dissenting Memory: Truth Commissions in the Global South. Ed. Véronique Tadjo (Routledge: India, 2019).

"Cruel optimism and irreparable reading: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai and Nyasha trilogy.” 2024. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 60(5), 617–631. 

Book reviews:

Graham K. Riach. The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature. Liverpool UP, The English Association, 2023. ISBN 9781837644704. Research in African Literatures, Volume 55, Number 1, Spring 2025. 

Annette A. LaRocco. The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2024. ISBN: 9780896803343. African Studies Review, Volume 1, Number 3, 2025. 

Olaf Zenker, Cherryl Walker, and Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel eds. Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-009-38077-5.