Dr Bibi Burger

About

Bibi Burger is a lecturer at the University of Cape Town’s School of Languages and Literatures where she develops and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules on Afrikaans literature and Afrikaans language acquisition. Previously she was a lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s Department of Afrikaans.

Bibi’s research interests include contemporary South African literature, speculative fiction, gender studies and ecocriticism and she has published widely on these topics in academic journals including the Journal of Southern African Studies, scrutiny2, Journal of Literary Studies, Current Writing, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, Stilet and Litnet Akademies.

Bibi is a 2022 to 2024 Iso Lomso fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study and a 2023-2024 fellow at the National Humanities Center in the US. Previously, she was a 2021 Short Stay Fellow at Ghent University’s Africa Platform and a 2017-2018 ACLS African Humanities Program postdoctoral fellow. She is a regional editor, focussing on Afrikaans-language literature from Southern Africa, of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde: A Journal for African Literature and an associate editor of Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society. She is also the co-editor of the Afrikaans-language feminist newsletter, Turksvy.