Biographical Information

Geoffrey V. Davis

Born 25th November 1943, Birmingham, UK

Sadly, Geoffrey Davis passed away on November 22, 2018. Please click here for more information.

 

Education:
1955–61 King George V School, Southport, Lancashire
1962-66 St.Edmund Hall, Oxford. BA in Modern Languages
1970 M.A. (Oxon.)
1977 Dr. Phil. (Aachen). Thesis: Arnold Zweig in der DDR
1999 Dr. Habil. Universität–Gesamthochschule Essen. Post-doctoral dissertation: Voices of Justice and Reason. Apartheid and Beyond in South African Literature.

Research Fellowships
1987 Visiting Overseas Scholarship, St. John's College, Cambridge
1995 Robert Menzies Fellowship and Visiting Senior Research Fellowship Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
2003 British Studies Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center for Research in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
2007 Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Bhasha Publication and Research Centre, Vadodara, India

Academic Activities:
Co-editor: Matatu. Journal for African Culture and Society (Amsterdam and New York) - 33 volumes to date.
Co-editor: Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi) with Hena Maes-Jelinek (Liège) and Gordon Collier (Gießen) – 93 volumes to date.

2002-2008 Chair of the European Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS).

2007- 2010 International Chair of the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS).

2007-2008. Organisation of CHOTRO Conference on Indigenous Peoples in the “Post”-Colonial World at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, January 2008.

Areas of Teaching and Research

1966– Lektor für Englisch; Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben, Institut für Anglistik, RWTH Aachen,
1989 Guest professorship, University of Verona, Italy
1990 Guest professorship, University of Trento, Italy
1992 Guest professorship, University of Nice, France
1999-2001 Professur für neue englischsprachige Literaturen und Kulturen. Johann Wolfgang Goethe–Universität, Frankfurt am Main (Vertretung)
2005 Außerplanmäßiger Professor für die neuen englischsprachigen Literaturen (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

Publications

Forthcoming:
Ed. with Mbongeni Malaba (University of Namibia). Zimbabwean Transitions. Essays on Zimbabwean Literature in English, Ndebele and Shona (Amsterdam/NY:Rodopi 2007) Matatu series, vol. 34.

Ed. A double issue of Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (2007) on recent South African fiction.

Published Books

1977 Arnold Zweig in der DDR. Entstehung und Bearbeitung der Romane Die Feuerpause, Das Eis bricht und Traum ist teuer, (Bonn: Bouvier, 1977).

1983 (with Michael Senior). South Africa: the Privileged and the Dispossessed,(Paderborn: Schöningh, 1983) Texts for English and American Studies, Vol. 12, Student’s s Book.

1985 (with Michael Senior). South Africa: the Privileged and the Dispossessed (Paderborn: Schöningh, 1985) Teacher’s Book.

1988 (Ed. with D.R.Midgley, H.-H.Müller). Arnold Zweig: Poetik – Judentum– Politik. Akten des Internationalen Arnold-Zweig-Symposiums, Universität Cambridge 1987 (Bern: Lang, 1988).

1988 (Ed with Matsemela Manaka and Jürgen Jansen). Matatu. 3/4, (1988). Towards Liberation: Culture and Resistance in South Africa.

1990 (Ed.) Crisis and Conflict in Southern Africa (Essen: verlag blaue eule, 1990).

1990 (Ed.) Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English: Canada (Amsterdam and New York : Rodopi, 1990) Cross/ Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, Vol. 2.

1990 (Ed. with H. Maes-Jelinek) Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 1990) Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, Vol. 1.

1991 (Ed. with A. Wieger) Kanada: Gesellschaft – Landeskunde – Literatur (Würzburg: Könighausen und Neumann, 1991)..

1992 (Ed. with W. Kreisel, P.H. Marsden, J. Jansen) Neuseeland im pazifischen Raum, Pazifik-Forum Vol.3 (Aachen).

1993 (Ed. with M.T. Bindella), Imagination and the Creative Impulse in the New Literatures in English (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 1993).

1994 (Ed.) Voyages and Explorations: Southern African Writing, Matatu, 11 (1994).

1994 South Africa (Oxford and Santa Barbara, Ca.) World Bibliographical Series. Rev. ed. Vol. 7.

1996 (Ed. with Anne Fuchs) Theatre and Change in South Africa (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic/ Routledge).

1996 (Ed. with Hena Maes-Jelinek and Gordon Collier) A Talent(ed) Digger: Creations, Cameos and Essays in honour of Anna Rutherford (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 1996) Cross/Cultures 20.

1997 (Ed.) Beyond the Echoes of Soweto: Five Plays by Matsemela Manaka (London: Harwood Academic), Contemporary Theatre Series, Vol. 23.

1997 (Ed. with D. Riemenschneider) Aratjara: Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia (Amsterdam: Rodopi) Cross/Cultures Series, Vol. 28.

2003 Voices of Justice and Reason. Apartheid and Beyond in South African Literature Cross/Cultures 61 (Amsterdam & NY: Rodopi, 2003).

2004 (Ed. with P.H. Marsden) Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a ‘Post’-Colonial World (Amsterdam /New York: Rodopi, 2004). Cross/Cultures 76. ASNEL Papers 8.

2004 (Ed. with P.H. Marsden, Marc Delrez, Bénédicte Ledent) Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a `Post´- Colonial World (Amsterdam /New York: Rodopi, 2004). Cross/Cultures 77, ASNEL Papers 9.1.

2005. (Ed. with P.H.Marsden, Marc Delrez, Bénédicte Ledent) Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a `Post´- Colonial World (Amsterdam /New York: Rodopi, 2005). Cross/Cultures 79, ASNEL Papers 9.2

2006 (Ed. with Christine Matzke & Adiremi Raji-Oyelade) Of Ministrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2006) Matatu series, Vol. 33.

2009. (Ed. with G.N. Devy, K.K. Chakravarty) Indigeneity: Culture and Representation (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan).

2011. (Ed. with G.N. Devy, K.K. Chakravarty) Voice and Memory: Indigenous Imagination and Expression (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan).

2013. (Ed. with G.N. Devy, K.K. Chakravarty) Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance (New Delhi & London: Routledge, 2013).

2013. (Ed. with G.N. Devy, K.K. Chakravarty) Knowing Differently: The Challenge of the Indigenous (New Delhi & London: Routledge, 2013).

2013. (Ed. with Frank Schulze-Engler) African Literatures. Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources, Vol. 3, (Trier: WVT, 2013).

2013. (Ed. with Bernth Lindfors) African Literature and Beyond: A Florilegium. Festschrift for James Gibbs (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2013).