CURRICULUM VITAE - Manuela Maria Grazia Lovisa

CURRICULUM VITAE - Manuela Maria Grazia Lovisa

CURRICULUM VITAE - Manuela Maria Grazia Lovisa
PERSONAL DETAILS
Born in Maniago, province of Pordenone, Northern Italy.
Matriculated 1972 at Greenhill Convent, Bloemfontein. Distinction in History of Art,
Nan Rhodes Harrison Prize for Art.
TERTIARY EDUCATION
1974 -1977: B.A degree, Rhodes University : majoring in ENGLISH and ITALIAN
(with distinction)
1979 – B.A Honours degree, Rhodes University (Literature)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1982 -1986: Schoolteacher – Bopasenatla Senior Secondary School, Diepkloof,
Soweto. Taught Stds 7 -10, English.
1987 – Appointed as temporary full-time junior lecturer, Department of English, UFS
(six-month appointment)
1988 – 1st semester – caretaker lecturer, Department of Italian, UFS, in the absence of
Mr F Quadu, who was on Sabbatical. Lectured on both Italian language and literature.
1989 - Appointed full-time permanent junio lecturer, Dept of English, UFS
1990 - Obtained MA degree (UNISA) in literature. Appointed as a permanent,
full-time lecturer, Dept of English, UFS. Currently hold the same position.
RESEARCH AREAS:
Literary theory, with specific interest in Post Structuralism – the work of Jacques
Derrida, Jacques Lacan. Also Structuralism (Roland Barthes) and Marxist literary
theory (Lukacs, Adorno, Macherey, Bakhtin) Research conducted exclusively for
teaching purposes.
Elizabethan drama, with primary interest in Shakespeare, Marlowe and the Jacobean
dramatists –Webster, Marston, Tourneur
Modern Novel – primarily the Modernist writers – James Joyce, Virginia Woolf
Contemporary novel – J M Coetzee’s so-called “theoretical” novels.
Modern Drama – Tennessee Williams, Peter Schaffer, Athol Fugard
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Editing and proof-reading of MA and PhD dissertations
Translation – 2004: Literary theory texts for the Afrikaans Department
Reading circle – book talks for various reading circles in Bloemfontein
SUPERVISION OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS:
M.A by dissertation - Burgert Senekal
Title: Alienation in Contemporary British Fiction – A Literary-theoretical Study
of Alienation as a Fictional Construct (unregistered)
HONOURS STUDENTS
Eng 601 – Literary Theory
Eng 602 – 19th- and 20th- century Literature
Eng 604 – Womens’ Literature
UNDER-GRADUATE MODULES:
ENG 212 – Drama
ENG 332 – Drama
ENG 114 – Prose Fiction
ENG 122 – Drama
ENG 322 – Prose Fiction
ENG 222 – Prose Fiction
ENG 342 – Poetry
ENG 142 – Poetry