Minnie Lewis
She is a UCT graduate [BA -1992; BA(Hons) - 1993; HDE (PG) Sec - 1994; Taught at various High Schools in the Cape Peninsula during 1995 with Afrikaans and History as her main teaching subjects. During 1995 she also taught matriculants Afrikaans at the Atlantis Adult Education Centre. MA - 1998; PhD - 2005]. School for Languages and Literature - Afrikaans section - currently in lecturing position since May 2006.
Between 1993 and 2006 she also held the position of a part-time Research Assistant and later Senior Research Assistant at the Centre for Socio-Legal Research in the Law Faculty at UCT. In 2003 she also acted in a lecturing capacity in the BaDr prgramme (Afrikaans) as well as working in the Law Faculty. During 1998 she was involved in The Family Advocate Project: acted in the capacity of interviewer to gather data for the above mentioned project. The task of interviewer called for a great amount of organisational skills and dedication and close working relations with the Director of the Centre, Prof Burman. Archival research and translating: Dutch archival material translated into English. Employment at the Centre also entailed a great measure of data capturing.
Since 2006 she has been teaching in the Medicine and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Faculties. Her duties not only include formal teaching, but also course preparation and presentation, as well as the production of new material. Minnie is also involved with translation projects for post-graduate students as well as other departments at UCT, time permitting.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
- UOFS BLOEMFONTEIN 18-29 September 1996 - AFRIKAANSE LETTERKUNDEVEREENIGING - Sewende Hoofkongres
-CONFERENCE PAPER TITLE: " 'n Herwaardering en herinterpretasie van Elise Muller se verhaal, 'Die broer'"
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECT (under leadership of Prof Hein Viljoen):
Title: The problematics of Space and Identity
Research Focus Area of the Languages and Literature in the South African Context at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education.
PUBLICATIONS:
- CN van der Merwe & Minnie Lewis
"Elise Muller: Die verrassende in die skynbaar doodgewone"/Elise Muller: Surprises in the seemingly commonplace" in: LITERATOR, Volume 22, No.1, April 2001, pp.221-229 - Accredited 1998.
- Hein Viljoen, Minnie Lewis and Chris van der Merwe
"Introduction: Learning about space -and about ourselves" - Storyscapes. South African perspectives on Literature, Space and Identity. Peter Lang, NY, 2004.
- Minnie Lewis
"The construction of 'Colored' Space and Identity in Dido's 'n Stringetjie blou krale". Storyscapes. South African perspectives on Literature, Space and Identity. Peter Lang, NY, 2004.
