Mr LRG Jegels

Qualifications

• BA Hons (UWC) Cum Laude
• MA (UWC) Cum Laude
• Proposed PhD Topic:- “Post-colonial Narrative Voices: The Subaltern Speaks”

Currently teaching

• THL1501 Introduction to Theory of Literature
• THL3701 Advanced Narrative Theory
• THL3703 Advanced Theory of Poetry

Fields of academic interests

• Life-writing (auto/biography)
• The Novel
• Historical Revisionist Fiction
• Post-memory
• Post-colonial Critical Theory
• Cultural Identity and Reimagination

Paper presentations

• Readings from “Living with Dementia: My Mother’s Story” (Centre for the Book: UWC and University of Lancaster Creative Writing Conference, March 2017).
• Creative Writing and Academic Writing as interdependent mechanisms of writing (UWC International Workshop, March 2017).
• Memory as Construction: Unmasking the Biographic Self in Nabokov’s “Speak Memory” (National Post-Graduate Conference UWC, May 2018).
• Creative Writing Workshop: Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a 1000 Faces as Structural Coherence (Cornerstone Institute,  Winter School, June 2018).
• Deconstruction Kaczinsky’s Industrial Revolution (Centre For Humanity, UWC, International Winter School, June 2019).

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

• Editor at NewAdventurePublishing.com
• Member of the WGSA (Writer’s Guild South Africa)
• ORCID ID number: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5867-9763

Projects

• The GetOn Community Outreach Project

Other

Publications

Own

• FURY (A Novel)
• Love’s Sacred Name (A poetry anthology)
• Living with Dementia: My mother’s story (A memoir)
• Proposed:- “Give a Little Love: The Zayn Adam Story” (A biography)

Editorial

• Ed. and Publisher. “Man About Town” (Coloured Identity under Apartheid: A personal narrative) by Kenneth Alexander
• Ed. and Publisher. “Lessons from Lavender Hill High” (Civil Society’s impact on Township transformation) by June Orsmond.
• Ed. and Publisher. “Disrupting Denial: Analysing Narratives of Visible/Invisible Violence and Trauma” by Multiple Authors and Principal Ed. Dr Sarah Malotane
• Ed. and Publisher. “A Journey of Hope through Change (The story of Cape Evangelical Bible Institute becoming Cornerstone Institute)” by Margie Gustaffson
• Ed. and Publisher. “Little Flower School: A Legacy built on Stone” by the late Elizabeth Georgina Firmstone
• Ed. and Publisher. “Waar is ons nou? Die ondervindings van Nederlandse Immigrante in Suid Afrika” by Annie Du Plessis-Broere
• Ed. and Publisher. “Poetically Ghetto” (Township Poetry) by Nthepa Moitsheki
• Ed. and Publisher. “More than this” (An anthology of contemporary poetry) by Ruqshaana Kamish
• Ed. and Publisher. “Voice in the Wilderness” (An anthology by Mitchell’s Plain poet, Mario Faulmann).
• Ed. and Publisher. Pale Grey and Dark Skies (Dystopian Novels) by Barry Connors
• Ed. and Publisher. “On Solid Ground” (A biography on the assassination of Anton Lubowski) by widow, Gabrielle Lubowski.
• Editor-in-Chief and Publisher. “WritingThreeSixty Journal of Academic and Creative Texts” (Volumes 3-6), UWC.