Dorothy Driver

Professor Driver's major research area is in Southern African literature, and she has published essays (in South African, Australian, U.S. and European journals) on a range of Southern African writers in relation to representations of gender and race, as well as on gendered aspects of the African National Congress constitutional guidelines, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Drum magazine. She has also edited and co-edited books by and on Pauline Smith, Nadine Gordimer,...See more

Professor Driver's major research area is in Southern African literature, and she has published essays (in South African, Australian, U.S. and European journals) on a range of Southern African writers in relation to representations of gender and race, as well as on gendered aspects of the African National Congress constitutional guidelines, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Drum magazine. She has also edited and co-edited books by and on Pauline Smith, Nadine Gordimer, and Anne Barnard; wrote the literary and historical afterword to the U.S. publication of Zoë Wicomb's David's Story; and has provided numerous entries to literary encyclopedias, most notably the Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, where she was responsible for the substantial South African section. See less