Dennis Walder

Dennis Walder (19**-) is an academic, theatre historian and critic.

Born in South Africa,

Completed his graduate studies at the Universities of Cape Town and Edinburgh, where he was a Research Fellow in English. He began teaching while completing his PhD. After a spell as Staff Tutor for the Open University in Scotland, he was appointed lecturer and Chair of the Nineteenth Century Novel course at the Open University in London. He introduced postcolonial literature to the Open University curriculum and was founding Director of the Post-Colonial Research Group and a director of The Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies. He was promoted to a Chair in 1999 and to Emeritus Professor of Literature in 2010. at the Open University, UK.

Among his key publications have been the books Post-Colonial Literatures: History, Language, Theory and Athol Fugard, as well as three volumes of Fugard plays, edited for Oxford University Press.

See the ESAT Bibliography section for more on his publications.