Bibi Burger

Bibi Burger is a lecturer at the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town, where she teaches modules on Afrikaans poetry and Afrikaans language acquisition. Her research largely focuses on the representation of urban and rural spaces in South African literature, and how this is impacted by (and impacts on) gender, race, class and relationships between the human and non-human.

Some recent publications:

2024
Contemporary Women’s Writing 18: “remember that a white woman is a white man”: the black feminist poetry of Ronelda S. Kamfer as corrective to the race logic of white Afrikaans literary feminisms, Co-authored with Azille Coetzee
2023
Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 63(5): (Self)portrette in Uit die kroes deur Lynthia Julius: ’n Kultuurhandhawende pedagogiese benadering tot Afrikaanse literatuuronderrig, Co-authored with Earl Basson
2022
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 59(1): grond/Santekraam en bientang: Gesitueer in globale swart seeroetes
2021
Agenda 36(1): The Nonhuman Object in Ama Ata Aidoo’s “Nowhere Cool” (1990): A Black Feminist Critique of Object-oriented Ontology
2021
Scrutiny2 25(2): The Relationship between Futurity and the Rurality and Urbanity of Spaces in the Queer African Science Fiction of Triangulum by Masande Ntshanga