WORK EXPERIENCE TO DATE 📅🏢
University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Capacity/Work: External Examiner
- Period: September 2022 – Present
University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Capacity/Work: Co-supervisor of Doctoral Thesis
- Period: July 2022 – Present
Unisa
- Capacity/Work: Independent Contractor; Managing Editor of International Journal of African Renaissance Studies
- Period: September 2013 – April 2017
University of Pretoria
Capacity/Work:
- Professor
- Departmental Research Leader
- Post-doctoral Research Leader
- Faculty Computer Committee Member
- Faculty Higher Degree Committee Member
- Acting Head of Department
- First Year Coordinator
- Period: January 1993 – December 2005, Various short periods in 1999-2001
University of Pretoria
Capacity/Work:
- Senior Lecturer
- Lecturer
- Junior Lecturer
- Period: January 1984 – December 1992
Unisa / Pretoria Boys’ High / Transvaal Education Department
Capacity/Work:
- Lecturer
- English Teacher
- Matric. Examiner (Project School)
- Period: April 1979 – December 1983, Concurrent with Unisa from July 1979 – December 1981
Rhodesian Education Department to A level
Capacity/Work:
- Head of English
- House Mistress
- Period: January 1963 – March 1979
👩🏫📚 This diverse and extensive work history showcases a rich career in academia, encompassing roles in teaching, research leadership, and various administrative capacities. The wide range of experiences reflects a deep commitment to education and scholarly activities.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Courses presented
- Post-Doctoral Research Courses:
- Master’s Level Course:
- MA in South African and Pan African Literatures in English
- Masters; Programme Coordinator/ designer/ internal examiner
- Honours Level Courses:
- Anglo-Saxon and Middle English
- Pan African Literatures
- Theory of Literature
- South African Literature
- Civil War in Africa and its Literary Representations
- Prison Literature
- Undergraduate Level Courses:
- South African Literature (1st to 3rd years)
- History of Language (2nd year)
- Poetry (1st to 3rd years)
- Drama (1st to 3rd years)
- The Canon (1st to 3rd years)
- Communication in Organizations (1st year)
- English 101, 102, 200, and 301 (All undergraduate years)
Other Education and Pedagogic Courses
- Distance Education
- Year: 1994-2003
- Institution: University of Pretoria
- Computer Aided Instruction
- Year: 1988-1990
- Institution: University of Pretoria
- Eesterust Project for English Outreach
- Year: 1988-1984
- Institution: University of Pretoria
- Entrance Screening Tests for ENG101
- Year: 1990-1999
- Institution: University of Pretoria
- First Year Forum
- Year: 1997
- Institution: University of Cape Town
- MA Forum UP
- Year: 1995
- Institution: University of Pretoria
TEACHING OUTPUTS:
Educational publications and products
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Also under books
Gray, Rosemary Alice. Hunger for the Light: The Challenges of an African Life. (forthcoming) Ssali publishing/Unisa Press. 292pp. ISBN 9780639748306 print; e-book 9780639748313
Gray, Rosemary Alice. Ed. Echoes from the Wilderness 2022. Ssali Publishing/Unisa Press. 60pp. ISBN 9781776411887
Gray, Rosemary and Lisa Combrinck. Eds. 2022. Awkward Truth-Tellers. (forthcoming)
Gray, Rosemary and Rajendra Chetty. Eds. 2021. Commemorative Snapshots: Recalibrating Our Blue Diamond. Johannesburg: Ssali Publishers Ltd. 203pp. ISBN 9780620976800.
Gray, Rosemary, Martin Rupiya, Lesiba Teffo, and Shadrack Gutto. Eds. 2021. A Glass Half Full or Half Empty: The challenges of democratic elections and succession in Africa. 2nd ed. Fourways: Ssali Publishers Ltd. 374pp. ISBN9 781991200785.
Gray, Rosemary Alice. 2021. The Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri: The writer as conceptual artist. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, 300pp. 978-1-350-15299-1