AISCLI WEBINAR SERIES 2025. Hedley Twidle (University of Cape Town) in conversation with Mara Mattoscio. Thursday 17 July 2025, at 5 p.m.
- 17 July 2025 at 5 p.m. (CET)
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Hedley Twidle, professor at the University of Cape Town and author of Show Me the Place and The Interpreters: South Africa’s New Nonfiction, will be inteviewed by Mara Mattoscio (UniMarconi)
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Hedley Twidle is a writer, teacher and researcher based at the University of Cape Town, where he is Associate Professor and currently head of English Literary Studies. He is the author of two essay collections, Firepool (2017) and Show Me the Place (2024), as well as a study of life writing and the South African transition, Experiments with Truth (2019). He has recently published The Interpreters: South Africa’s New Nonfiction (2025), an anthology of creative nonfiction assembling a range of true stories that are often more far-fetched, and more compelling, than any fiction. More of his writing can be found at www.hedleytwidle.com.
Mara Mattoscio is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the “Guglielmo Marconi” University of Rome. Her research interests lie in critical theory, translation, Anglophone postcolonial literatures, and film studies, with a special focus on the intersections of race and gender, and African and diasporic authors seen from a comparative perspective. She is the author of Corpi affetti. Il Sudafrica di Nadine Gordimer dalla pagina allo schermo (Mimesis, 2018) and of several articles on South African, African, and Black British literary and filmic voices. She recently edited Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries. Genders/Genres/Genera (Palgrave MacMillan 2024, with Claudia Capancioni and Mariaconcetta Costantini) and a special section of Feminist Media Studies on “Gender, Migration, and the Media” (2018, with Megan C. MacDonald).
