Antjie Krog. <i>Skinned.</i>

Abstract

Dr. Marisa Botha is the youngest appointed Research Associate at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Prior to the position, she was a SA National Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Language and Literature at NMMU. Her research focuses on autobiography, memory and trauma. in 2004 attended the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands as a student and in 2012 she was invited to the University of Pennsylvania as a visiting scholar. Dr. Botha has delivered papers at international conferences and published ten articles in accredited journals, six of which were based on her Masters dissertation. She reviews articles and books for academic journals, and in 2013 she was guest co-editor of an issue of the accredited South African journal, Stilet