Review on Wilhelm Knobel's poetry Clivia cyrtanthiflorus (Japanese hybrid) Photo by Jim Holmes | Prof. Louise Viljoen Department of Afrikaans and Dutch University of Stellenbosch Private Box X1 7602 Matieland Tel. (021) 808 2157 |
Louise Viljoen (neé Van Zyl) was born on 22 August 1954 in Vredenburg. She
studied at the University of Stellenbosch, obtaining an MA-degree with a thesis
on the work of Etienne Leroux and a doctorate with a dissertation on the work
of Breyten Breytenbach. She teaches in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch
at the University of Stellenbosch. She has published more than 40 articles in
scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, regularly reviews books
for newpapers and magazines and often adjudicates literary prizes. She has
been guest lecturer at the Universities of Leuven and Amsterdam as well as
several South African universities. Her research interest lies in the field of
Afrikaans literature and literary theory with a special focus on postmodernism,
postcolonialism, gender as well as space and identity.
Louise is married to Willie Viljoen en they have two children: Carel and Suzanne.
Book contribution:
On Space and Identity in Antjie Krog's Country of my Skull (co-author) In: De Geest, Dirk e.a. Links for the Site of
Literary Theory. Essays in Honour of Hendrik van Gorp. Leuven: Leuven
University Press: 39-61, 2000
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