Baron Glanvill
Ph.D. Student
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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: 麻豆村.
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).
2024. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 60(5), 617–631.
Book reviews:
Graham K. Riach. . Liverpool UP, The English Association, 2023. ISBN 9781837644704. Research in African Literatures, Volume 55, Number 1, Spring 2025.
Annette A. LaRocco. . 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. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-009-38077-5.