Miki Flockemann
Miki Flockemann is an academic, English lecturer and theatre researcher.
Also found Mikki Flockemann
She has a Ph.D. from the University of Natal.
After retirement she was made Extraordinary Professor in the Department of English.
Her primary research interest is the aesthetics of transformation. Her publications include comparative studies of diasporic writings from South Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean. More recently, her focus has extended to looking at interconnectedness between local cultural production and the Indian Ocean World.
She has a long-standing interest in interdisciplinary approaches, and is co-convenor of an interdisciplinary Humanities course, and teaches a final year Topics in Theatre elective.
She has a strong interest in aesthetic trends in South African theatre and her work has appeared in collections such as The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance (1998), The Routledge Reader in Post-coloniality and Performance (2000), and SA Lit Beyond 2000 (2011). She has also published in journals such as Kunapipi, Tulsa Women’s Studies , Ariel, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, MaComere, International Journal of Learning, Journal of Literary Studies, Pretexts, English Academy Review, English in Africa, South African Theatre Journal, Journal for Theatre and Drama, Contemporary Theatre Review, AlterNation and English Studies in Africa. She is engaged in two performance-related projects on Migrancy, Citizenship and Performance as well as Postcoloniality and Performative Aesthetics.
