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Northumbria University:
August 2010 to the present: Professor in English and Creative Writing
September 2009 to July 2010: Reader in Creative Writing.
University of KwaZulu-Natal:
January 2008 to August 2009: Head of the School of Literary Studies, Media and Creative Arts. The School is a grouping of the disciplines of English Studies, Media Studies, Drama and Performance Studies, Classics, and the Centre for Visual Arts across two campuses of the multi-site university created out of the merging of the University of Natal with the University of Durban-Westville in 2004. The School employs 59 permanent academic staff, 13 administrators, as well as a large number of contract tutors. There are about 3000 students in the School, ranging from first-year to PhD and Postdoctoral levels.
January 2006 to August 2009: Senior Professor
January 2005 – 2007: Academic Coordinator (University of KwaZulu-Natal equivalent of Head of Department), English Studies.
January 2000 to June 2002, January 2003 to July 2003: Programme Director (University of Natal equivalent of Head of Department), English Studies.
January 1998 to December 2005: Full Professor.
January 1996 to December 1997: Associate Professor.
November 1996-December 1998: Coordinator of the Faculty of Humanities inter-disciplinary Cultural Studies Core Course, ‘Language, Text, and Context’.
January 1993 to December 1995: Senior Lecturer.
July 1989 to December 1992: Lecturer, Department of English, University of Natal, Durban,
Rand Afrikaans University:
January 1980 to July 1989: Lecturer, Department of English.
FELLOWSHIPS:
University Fellow
In February 2009 I was inducted into the Society of the Fellows of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in recognition of distinguished academic achievements. This Fellowship is the highest research honour one can receive from the university, and is conferred for life.
Commonwealth Fellow
Under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan I was resident, with Visiting Staff status, in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, September 1998 - September 1999. Whilst this was primarily a research and writing position (during which I began my book For the Sake of Silence and a series of scholarly papers around this creative project), I took up an invitation extended by Dr Nana Wilson-Tagoe of SOAS to participate as a teacher in her post-graduate course in Fiction and History in Africa.
EXCHANGES:
In 2006 I was put forward as the University of KwaZulu-Natal representative for agreements signed between the University of Calgary and the University of British Columbia with the particular brief of looking into cooperation regarding creative writing programs in these institutions. I visited the University of Calgary in 2008 to set up a cooperative programme in postgraduate creative writing, including staff/student exchanges, thesis examination, and the sharing of pedagogic practices, which is currently being developed for implementation.
Until leaving the University of KwaZulu-Natal I was the Representative for the University of KwaZulu-Natal/University of Texas at Austin teaching exchange. I participated in this exchange in the second semester of 2002.
AWARDS RECEIVED:
2009 Olive Schreiner Prize for Prose: Awarded to For the Sake of Silence. The English Academy of Southern Africa awards the Olive Schreiner Prize to writers in recognition of the radical late nineteenth and early twentieth-century liberal and pacifist who opposed racism, campaigned for women’s rights and was an advocate of literature as a vehicle for engagement in broader social issues. Her most acclaimed novel, The Story of an African Farm, was published in 1883. It is widely acknowledged as one of the most important works in South African fiction. The Academy recognized Michael Cawood Green’s second novel for its technical accomplishment, riveting narrative, and depth of historical research. It was described as a “tour de force of artistic expression... a wonderful history and spell-binding drama.”
Distinguished Teacher Award: University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College – 2006 (This is a competitive award for which one must be nominated and submit a substantial teaching portfolio. Four awards are made University-wide annually. Each award is currently to the value of R50 000. My submission was centered on the research-led nature of initiating and developing undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervision in creative writing, which was linked to a three-year National Research Foundation research grant – see below.)
Distinguished Teacher Award: University of Natal, Durban - 1998. For heading the design and implementation of a Faculty-wide ‘Core’ course in the study of human and social sciences.
University of Natal Book Prize, ‘Popular’ Book Category – awarded to Sinking: A Verse Novella, 1998. (Sinking was also short-listed for the SANLAM prize for unpublished fiction in 1995.)
Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching: University of Natal, Durban - 1997.
MEMBERSHIP:
Member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Peer Review College
Member of the UK National Association of Writers in Education.
Chair of the Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa. Elected for a first term of 2005-2007; re-elected for a further term, 2008-2009.
Member of the Association of University English Teachers of Southern Africa (Secretary/Treasurer, conference organizer on the Executive 1984/1985).
Member of the English Academy of Southern Africa.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
Books:
2010. (As Michael Cawood Green). For the Sake of Silence. London: Quartet Books, 558 pp. ISBN 978 0 7043 7198 9
2008. (As Michael Cawood Green). For the Sake of Silence. Roggebaai: UMUZI (South African imprint of Random House (Pty) Ltd), 558 pp. ISBN 978-1-4152-0045-2
1997. Novel Histories: Past, Present, and Future in South African Fiction. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 319 pp. ISBN 1-86814-000-0
1997. (As Michael Cawood Green). Sinking: A Verse Novella. London and Johannesburg: Penguin, 164 pp. ISBN 0 140 58790 X
Chapters in books and books edited:
2009. ‘Exorcising the Past: Voices for the Present’. In: Religion and Spirituality in South Africa: New Perspectives. Editor: Duncan Brown. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 167-190. 2008. ‘Deplorations: Coetzee, Costello and Doubling the N’. In: Postcolonialism: South/African Perspectives. Editor: Michael Chapman. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 125-148. 2004. ‘Preposterous Silence: Metaphor and Materiality in Daphne Rooke’s Ratoons’. In: Ebony, Ivory & Tea. Editors: Z. Bialas and K. Kowalczyk-Twarowski. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Slaskiego (University of Silesia Press), 145-163. 2001. ‘Silences: Dludlushe Sondzaba and the Trappist Mission in East Griqualand’. Colonies, Missions, Cultures in the English-Speaking World. General and Comparative Studies. Editor: Gerhard Stilz. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 144-54. 2000. ‘Historical Fiction and Literary History’. Constructing South African Literary History. African Literatures in English 14. Editors: Elmar Lehmann, Erhard Reckwitz, and Lucia Vennarini. Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 169-178. 2000. ‘Sarah Gertrude Millin’. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume Two Hundred and Twenty Five: South African Writers. Editor: Paul A. Scanlon. Detroit, San Francisco, London, Boston, Woodbridge, Cnn.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 270-282. 1997`Fiction as a Historicising Form in Modern South Africa'. In: Writing and Africa. Editors: Mpalive-Hangson Masiska and Paul Hyland. London and New York: Longman, 87-102. 1997. `South African Literary History: The Mark Between the 'And' and 'Or''. South African Literary History: Totality and/or Fragment. African Literatures in English 12. Editors: Erhard Reckwitz, Karin Reitner, and Lucia Vennarini. Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 207-216. 1996. `Resisting a National Literary History'. In: Rethinking South African Literary History. Editors: Johannes A. Smit, Johan van Wyk, Jean-Philippe Wade. Durban: Y Press, 224-235. 1994. `Sarah Gertrude Millin' and `Daphne Rooke'. In: Encyclopaedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English, Volume 2. Editors: Benson, E. and L.W. Conolly. London and New York: Routledge, 1026-1027 and 1378-1379. 1993. `Oliver Walker's Rewritings of the "White Chief of Zululand" (John Dunn), 1948 and 1960'. In: African Studies Forum, Volume II. Editors: Romaine Hill, Marie Muller, Martin Trump. Pretoria: HSRC Publications, 208-235. 1989. `Abrahams tells of freedom'. New Nation/New History, Volume 1. Johannesburg: New Nation and the History Workshop, 121-122. 1981. Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities, edited and with an introduction and educational aids by Green, M.M. (Cape Town: Maskew Miller)
Peer-reviewed articles (all full-length papers):
2008. ‘Translating the Nation: From Plaatje to Mpe’, Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 34 No. 2 (June), pp.325-342. 2007. ‘The Future in the Post: Utopia and the Fiction of the New South Africa’, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (a special issue entitled ‘The Disappearance of Utopia?’ edited by Jochen Petzold (Universität Freiburg), Würzburg, vol. 1, 69-85. 2007. ‘The Bitter History of Sweetness: Metaphor and Materiality in Daphne Rooke’s Ratoons’. English in Africa Vol. 34 No. 1 May 43-57. 2006. ‘A letter from “the other side of silence”: Dludlushe Sondzaba and the Trappist Mission in East Griqualand’, Missionalia, Vol 34 no 2 & 3 (August & November), 182-200. 2006. ‘Deplorations’. English in Africa Vol. 33 No. 2 October , 135-158. 2006. ‘Generic Instability and the National Project: History, Nation, and Form in Sol T. Plaatje’s Mhudi’, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 37, No. 4 Winter, pp 34- 47. 2005. ‘Translating the Nation: Phaswane Mpe and the Fiction of Post-Apartheid’. Scrutiny2. Vol. 10 No. 1, 3-16. (Title of Issue, ‘Translating the Nation’, taken from this paper.) 2003. ‘Trader Tim’. English in Africa. Vol.30 No. 2 October, 69-74. 2000. ‘Nouns for the Adjective: New Directions in English Studies’, English Academy Review. Vol.17, 55-64. 1999. ‘Social History, Literary History, and Historical Fiction in South Africa’. Journal of African Cultural Studies. Vol.12 No. 2, 121-136. 1998. ‘Language, Text, And Context: A First-Level Humanities Core Course’. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. Vol. 3 No. 2, 41-53. 1997. `Leon de Kock Interviews Michael Cawood Green: Sinking into History'. Scrutiny2. Vol. 2 No. 2, 30-35. 1996. `History, Nation, and Form in Peter Abrahams's Wild Conquest'. Research in African Literatures Vol. 27, No.2, 1-16. 1994. `Nadine Gordimer's "Future Histories": Two Senses of an Ending'. Wasafiri Vol.19, 14-18. 1994. `Difference and Domesticity in Daphne Rooke's Wizards' Country’. English in Africa. Vol.21, Nos.1 and 2, 103-139. 1994. `Life and Times of Michael K and the Use of the Future as Utopian Strategy'. Les Cahiers FORELL (Publication de l'équipe d'accueil - Université‚ de Poitiers) Vol.3, 225-239. 1994. `The Detective as Historian: A Case for Wessel Ebersohn'. Current Writing Vol.6, No.2, 93-111. 1993. `The Surfing Detective: Collingwood, Christie, and the 1922 Rand Mine Rebellion, or "we are off to Rhodesia on Tuesday"'. English Academy Review 10, 66-82. 1991. `Blood and Politics/Morality Tales for the Immorality Act: Sarah Gertrude Millin in Literary History and Social History', English in Africa Vol.18, No. 1, 1-23. 1990. `History: Text: Future', Journal of Literary Studies, Vol. 6, No.3, 180-199. 1988. `History in Fiction: Oliver Walker and John Dunn', English in Africa Vol.15, No.1, 29-53. 1988. `The Great Gatsby: The Structure of the Dream', Crux Vol. 22, No.2, 51-60. 1987. `The Politics of Loving: Fugard and the Metropolis', World Literature Written In English, Vol.27, No.1, Spring, 5-17. 1984. `The Politics of Loving: Fugard and the Metropolis', The English Academy Review, Vol.2, 41-54. 1984. `The Manifesto and the Fifth Column', Critical Arts, Vol.3, No.2, 9-19.
Critical reviews:
1995. ‘True Stories'. Review of Tim Couzens's Tramp Royal and Isabel Hofmeyr's `We Spend Our Years As A Tale That Is Told', Current Writing Vol. 7, No. 2, 148-155. 1992. Review of J.M. Coetzee's White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa, Comparative Literature Vol. 43 No. 4, 393-395. 1991. ‘From Opposition to Orthodoxy: South African Social History'. Review article on Bonner, Hofmeyr, James, Lodge (eds), Holding Their Ground: Class, Locality and Culture in 19th and 20th Century South Africa and Bozzoli and Delius (Guest eds), Radical History Review: History From South Africa 46/47 Winter, 1990, Current Writing Vol. 3, October, 207-208. 1989. Review of Piniel Viriri Shava, A People's Voice: Black South African Writing in the Twentieth Century and Chidi Amuta, The Theory of African Literature: Implications for Practical Criticism, Current Writing, Vol. 1 October, 103-107. 2009. ‘Ex-Mercury freelancer was important KwaZulu-Natal novelist’ (Obituary for Daphne Rooke). The Mercury Monday 9 February, 6.
Other Creative Writing:
2008. ‘Music for a New Society’. Flash: The international Short-Short Story Magazine. Vol. 1 No. 1. October (commissioned for the inaugural issue). Peter Blair and Ashley Chantler (ed). University of Chester, 9-10. 2008. 'Alone of All Her Sex’ (prose narrative version). Durban in a Word: Contrasts and Colours in eThekwini. Dianne Stewart (ed). Johannesburg: Penguin, pp. 19-22. 2007. ‘Fiction (for Cas)’. Fidelities: a selection of contemporary South African poetry. XIV, p. 51. 2004/5. ‘Alone of All Her Sex’ (verse version).New Contrast: South African Literary Journal. Vol. 32. No. 4. Summer, 48-54. 2002. ‘The Big Picture’ and ‘Ethics’. The New Century of South African Poetry, Michael Chapman (ed.). Johannesburg & Cape Town, AD DONKER Publishers, 386-387. 1998. ‘Two Poems from Sinking’. Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing (Fourteen: New Writing from South and Southern Africa). Simon Lewis (ed.) Charleston: The Rathasker Press, 22-23. 1996. `Falling (Hettie's Love Song', `A Washing Machine at the End of the World', `The Big Picture', and `Failures with Metaphor'. In The Heart in Exile: South African Poetry in English, 1990-1995. Editors: Leon de Kock and Ian Tromp. London and Johannesburg, 150-157.
Other Creative Activities:
Composer and performer with Jeremy Taylor of the music for the film Fugard's People (with Athol Fugard, Sandra Prinsloo, Bill Curry, and Marius Weyers), directed by Helene Nogueira for Avalanche Films, 1982.
White Eyes. Album of contemporary music composed and performed by Michael Green, recorded and produced by Dave Marks at MC Studios, Johannesburg. Copyright 3rd Ear Music, distributed by WEA. 1984. WEA Records (DTC 1002).
Writer/Compiler of five programmes for The Contemporary Muse, South African Broadcasting Corporation Poetry Programme: `Poems About Poetry' (16 November 1990), `The Poetry of W.H. Auden' Parts 1 and 2, `The Poetry of W.B. Yeats' Parts 1 and 2 (weekly for the month of January 1991).
The South African Broadcasting Corporation Poetry commissioned a script based on Sinking, as a voice play. This was broadcast on 19 June 1995 (twice).
In 2002, the First Physical Theatre Company of Rhodes University’s Drama Department presented ‘She had a sinking feeling’, a dance drama ‘inspired by Michael Cawood Green's verse novella’ and choreographed by Bailey Snyman (using ‘comedy, multi-media, and an implosion of physical theatre’) at the FNB Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg (previewed at the Rhodes Theatre in Grahamstown).
Teaching-related Publications:
2000.‘Nouns for the Adjective: New Directions in English Studies’, English Academy Review. Vol.17, 55-64. 1998. ‘Language, Text, And Context: A First-Level Humanities Core Course’. Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa. Vol. 3 No. 2, 41-53. 1988. `The Great Gatsby: The Structure of the Dream', Crux Vol. 22, No.2, 51-60. 1984. `The Politics of Loving: Fugard and the Metropolis', The English Academy Review, Vol.2, 41-54. The University of South Africa reproduced this article in its Study Collection `for use in (their) teaching programmes'.
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