Louise Bethlehem

Louise Bethlehem currently heads the Programme in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also lectures in the Department of English and holds a research fellowship in the Africa Unit of the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. She has published widely on South African literature, literary history, postcolonialism and gender theory. Together with Leon de Kock and Sonja Laden, she co-edited the prizewinning volume South Africa in the Global Imaginary...See more

Louise Bethlehem currently heads the Programme in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also lectures in the Department of English and holds a research fellowship in the Africa Unit of the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. She has published widely on South African literature, literary history, postcolonialism and gender theory. Together with Leon de Kock and Sonja Laden, she co-edited the prizewinning volume South Africa in the Global Imaginary , also published in the 'Imagined South Africa' book series. Another volume which she co-edited with Pal Ahluwalia and Ruth Ginio, Violence and Non-Violence in Africa is forthcoming. See less