She is author of South Africa, Shakespeare, and Post-Colonial Culture (2004), Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition (2008), and Fixing Gender: Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex (forthcoming 2011). She is also co-editor of Under Construction; "Race" and Identity in South Africa Today (2004) and Horae Amoris: The Collected Poetry of Rosa Newmarch (2010). She has been editor of the journal Social Dynamics, and has published widely in local and international journals on Shakespeare studies, post-colonial cultural issues, and gender and queer theory. She was a recipient of the UCT Fellows Award in 2005. She has degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Cape Town, Oxford University, and, shortly, from the University of the Western Cape.