Articles & Book Chapters

2024. The Mythmaking Surrounding Entrepreneurship and the False Promises of the Mamlambo: a Comparative Study. Folklore, 135 (2) 2024: 250 - 275.
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2021. The Cult of the Quantifiable: the fetishism of numbers in higher education.
Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation March 13 (1): 8 - 25.
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2019. Fatal Seductions, False Promises and Urban Enchantments: The mamlambo, the blesser and the consumer in South African cities. In Karl Bell (ed) Supernatural Cities: enchantment, anxiety and spectrality. Woodbridge. Boydell: 45 - 64.
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2015. Spirits in the Marketplace: The market as a site of the occult in the South and West African supernatural and contemporary capitalist cosmologies. Folklore 126 (3): 283 - 300.
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2015. Secrecy, Publicity and Power: Strategies of occult practitioners and university managers. Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 25.
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2015. Siziba, Liqhwa and Felicity Wood. Re-Aligning the Self: The Ndebele woman and the institution of marriage and family as presented in Ndebele mythology. Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 25 (1): 10 - 22.
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2014. Wealth-giving Mermaid Women and the Malign Magic of the Market: Contemporary oral accounts of the South African mamlambo. In Stephanos Stephanides and Stavros Karayanni (eds) Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination. Amsterdam. Brill Cross/Cultures Series: 59 - 85.
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2014. Kinship, Collegiality and Witchcraft: South African oral accounts of the supernatural and the occult aspects of contemporary academia. Tydskrif 5 1 (1): 150 - 162.
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2013. Faustian Pacts and False Promises: The mamlambo and the market university. Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 23 (1): 156 - 172.
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2013. Siziba, Liqhwa and Felicity Wood. The Voice of the Voiceless: women reclaiming self through oral expression. Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 23 (2): 230 - 246.
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2010. Occult Innovations in Higher Education: Corporate magic and the mysteries of managerialism. Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation 28 (3): 227 - 244.
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2010. Sorcery in the Academy: Universities and the occult rituals of the corporate world. Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 1: 4 - 28.
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2010. The Shape-shifter on the Borderlands: A comparative study of the trickster figure in African orality and in the career of one South African trickster, Khotso Sethuntsa. English in Africa 37 (2): 14 - 26.
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2008. The Occult, the Erotic and Entrepreneurship: An analysis of oral accounts of ukuthwala, wealth-giving magic, sold by the medicine man Khotso Sethuntsa. Alternation 15 (1): 338 - 366.
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2008. The Magic of Politics and the Politics of Magic: Oral narratives concerning the inyanga Khotso Sethuntsa that interweave the supernatural with the discourse of political power in apartheid South Africa. Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 18 (1): 80 - 92.
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2008. `Mermaid, Naked Lady, She Will Give You Love Kisses`: an analysis of the sexual aspects of the wealth-giving mamlambo. Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 18 (2): 95 - 109.
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2005. `The Snake Will Swallow You`: Supernatural snakes and the creation of the Khotso legend. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems 4 (1) June: 346 – 357.
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2005. Blood Money: an analysis of the socio-economic implications of oral narratives concerning wealth-giving snakes in the career of Khotso Sethuntsa. Journal of Literary Studies 21 (1/2): 68 – 92.
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2004. Beyond the Walls of the Lunatic Asylum: Christopher Hope's early fiction. Literator 5 (2) August: 45 - 62.
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2004. Snakes, Spells, Cadillacs and Kruger Millions: an analysis of oral narratives concerning Khotso Sethuntsa. Kronos (special issue: Eastern Cape): November 2004: 167 – 183.
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2004. Wood, Felicity and Sylvia Tloti. An Interview with Ma-Ngconde, Traditional Healer and Prophetess. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems 3 (2): 189 – 199.
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2002. Taking Fun Seriously: the potency of play in Ivan Vladislavic's short stories. English Academy Review 18: 21 – 37.
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2002. Lead Weight or Lifebelt? The Role of English for Special Purposes Courses and the Survival of English Departments. (Balfour, R. and Sarinjeive, D. eds) English in Transition. Brevitas: 35 – 51.
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2001. An Interview with Ivan Vladislavic. New Contrast 29 (3): 53--60.
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2001. An Interview with Andre Brink. The English Academy Review 18: 112 – 121.
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2000. The Snake in the Sky: Tornadoes in Clay and Local Narrative in the Hogsback-Alice Area. Critical Arts 14 (2): 79--95.
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1998. The Soccer War and the City That Sailed Away: magical realism and new journalism in the work of Ryszard Kapuściński. Literator 19 (1): 79--92.
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1998. An Interview with Christopher Hope. The English Academy Review 15, December: 59--66.
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1995. A Dry White Season? A discussion of English 1 courses. The English Academy Review 12, December: 33--46.
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1992. Why Don't South Africans Like Fantasy? New Contrast 20 (2) June: 33--40.
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