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 Besides having acted as external examiner for many South African studies, and supervised studies on South African theatre, he is a founding member of the editorial board of the ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', and is Co-editor of the ''[[Journal of Southern African Studies]]''.
-Among his key publications touching on theatre have been the books ''Post-Colonial Literatures: History, Language, Theory'' (1998), ''Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Memory and Representation'' (2010) and ''[[Athol Fugard]]'', as well as three volumes of Fugard plays, edited for [[Oxford University Press]]. In 2025 a memoir about his mother, ''Amid the Alien Corn: A Son's Memoir'' appeared with Troubador.
+Among his key publications touching on theatre have been the books ''Post-Colonial Literatures: History, Language, Theory'' (1998), ''Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Memory and Representation'' (2010) and ''[[Athol Fugard]]'', as well as three volumes of Fugard plays, edited for [[Oxford University Press]]. In 2025 a memoir, ''Amid the Alien Corn: A Son's Memoir'', appeared with Troubador Publishing.
-In 2013 he gave the Wertheim Lecture in Comparative Drama at the University of Indiana speaking on  “The Play’s the Thing: A Journey through the Drama of South Africa”
+In 2013 he gave the Wertheim Lecture in Comparative Drama at the University of Indiana speaking on “The Play’s the Thing: A Journey through the Drama of South Africa”
 Author of an article on "[[Athol Fugard]]" in Middeke, Schnierer and Homann(2015).

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 https://theconversation.com/profiles/dennis-walder-2343035
-https://theconversation.com/memory-is-not-to-be-trusted-a-south-african-memoir-traces-the-search-for-a-family-secret-276198
+[[Miki Flockemann]]. 2026. "Memory is not to be trusted: a South African memoir traces the search for a family secret", ''[[The Conversation]]'' (Published: March 15, 2026)[https://theconversation.com/memory-is-not-to-be-trusted-a-south-african-memoir-traces-the-search-for-a-family-secret-276198]
 Go to the  [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 https://theconversation.com/profiles/dennis-walder-2343035
-https-//theconversation.com/memory-is-not-to-be-trusted-a-south-african-memoir-traces-the-search-for-a-family-secret-276198
+https://theconversation.com/memory-is-not-to-be-trusted-a-south-african-memoir-traces-the-search-for-a-family-secret-276198
 Go to the  [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 Besides having acted as external examiner for many South African studies, and supervised studies on South African theatre, he is a founding member of the editorial board of the ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', and is Co-editor of the ''[[Journal of Southern African Studies]]''.
-Among his key publications have been the books ''Post-Colonial Literatures: History, Language, Theory'' (1998), ''Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Memory and Representation'' (2010) and ''[[Athol Fugard]]'', as well as three volumes of Fugard plays, edited for [[Oxford University Press]]. In 2025 his memoir about his mother, ''[[Amid the Alien Corn: A Son's Memoir]]'' appeared with Troubador.
+Among his key publications touching on theatre have been the books ''Post-Colonial Literatures: History, Language, Theory'' (1998), ''Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Memory and Representation'' (2010) and ''[[Athol Fugard]]'', as well as three volumes of Fugard plays, edited for [[Oxford University Press]]. In 2025 a memoir about his mother, ''Amid the Alien Corn: A Son's Memoir'' appeared with Troubador.
 In 2013 he gave the Wertheim Lecture in Comparative Drama at the University of Indiana speaking on  “The Play’s the Thing: A Journey through the Drama of South Africa”

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 [[Dennis Walder]] (1943-) is a Dickens scholar, theatre scholar, literary critic, editor and writer.
-Also known as [[Dennis Jean Walder]]
+Also known as '''[[Dennis Jean Walder]]'''
 == Biography ==

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 Author of an article on "[[Athol Fugard]]" in Middeke, Schnierer and Homann(2015).
 ''See the '''[[ESAT Bibliography Waa-Wal|ESAT Bibliography]]''' section for more on his publications.''
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 In 2013 his collection of papers on [[Athol Fugard]] and South African theatre  were lodged as an archive at the Lilly Library, Indiana University (Bloomington).
-All Walder's South African theatre papers - not only regarding Fugard, but also those on a number of local black playwrights, including the late [[Kole Omotoso]] - were donated to the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana  in 2013 and accessed in 2014.
+All [[Dennis Walder]]'s South African theatre papers - not only those regarding Fugard, but also a number on other local black playwrights, including the late [[Kole Omotoso]] - were donated to the University of Indiana (Bloomington) in 2013 and accessed by the Lilly Library in 2014.
 ''(See the library entry at: https://iucat.iu.edu/lilly/14690854)''.