Psychoanalytical reading of fantasy and science fiction
Feminist science fiction and fantasy
The hero in children’s literature
Feminist speculative fiction
Children’s Literature
Psychoanalytic literary analysis
2011. Donaldson, E., Hayes, N. & van Niekerk, M. Exam Success: Romeo and Juliet. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
2011. Donaldson, E., Hayes, N & van Niekerk, M. 2011. Exam Success: Hamlet. Cape Town: Oxford University Press
Book chapters:
‘Earning the Right to Wear Midnight: Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching’ in The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on stories from Grimm to Gaiman (145-164). 2014. Abbruscato, J. and Jones, T. (eds). USA: Macfarland.
‘Hail the Conquering Campbellian S/Hero: Joanna Russ’s Alyx’ in Practising Science Fiction: Critical essays on Reading, Writing and Teaching the Genre (154-167). 2010. Hellekson, K., Jacobsen, C., Sharp, P., and Yaszek, L. (eds.) USA: Macfarland.
‘Spellbinding Dahl: considering Roald Dahl’s fantasy’ in Change and Renewal in Children’s Literature (131-140). 2004. Van der Walt, T.B. (ed.) London: Praeger.
Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master!” Childhood agency in Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Wee Free Men’ in Mousaion, October 2015: Vol 33 (2)
A Contested Freedom: the fragile future of Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’ in English Academy Review, October 2014: Vol 31 (2), 94-107.
Accessing the ‘Other Wind’: feminine time in Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Series in English Academy Review, May 2013: Vol 30 (1), 39-51.
Resetting the Clockocracy: time and memory in Joanna Russ’s ‘The Adventures of Alyx’ in Scrutiny II, Nov 2012: Vol 17 (2), 22-34.
