Hedley Twidle is a writer, teacher and researcher based at the University of Cape Town, where he is Associate Professor and currently head of English Literary Studies. He is the author of two essay collections, Firepool (2017) and Show Me the Place (2024), as well as a study of life writing and the South African transition, Experiments with Truth (2019). More of his writing can be found at www.hedleytwidle.com.

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  • –present
    Associate Professor and head of English Literary Studies, University of Cape Town

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