Professor Jeff Opland
BA, BSc, MA, PhD (Cape Town)
Overview
Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa
Visiting Professor of African Language Literatures
Centre for Translation Studies (CTS)
Member, Centre for Translation Studies
- Name:
- Professor Jeff Opland
- Email address:
- jo8@soas.ac.uk
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 432
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 15:00 - 16:00
Teaching
Courses Taught
Publications
Book Chapters
Opland, Jeff (2012) 'The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry.' In: Print, text & book cultures in South Africa. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 286-305.
Opland, Jeff (2012) 'Xhosa poetry.' In: Greene, Roland, (ed.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 4th ed. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 1544-1545.
Opland, Jeff (2012) 'Abantu-Batho and the Xhosa poets.' In: Limb, Peter, (ed.), The People’s Paper: A Centenary History and Anthology of Abantu-Batho. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 201-225.
Articles
Opland, Jeff and McAllister, Patrick A. (2010) 'The Xhosa imbongi as trickster.' Journal of African Cultural Studies, 22 (2). pp. 157-167.
Opland, Jeff (2007) 'The first novel in Xhosa.' Research in African Literatures, 38 (4). pp. 87-110.
