Andrew van der Vlies is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and Extraordinary Professor in the Department of English at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He taught previously at the University of Sheffield and Queen Mary University of London. A graduate of Rhodes University and the University of Oxford, he is author of numerous articles and chapters on postcolonial literatures, print cultures, gender studies, and affect. Books include, as author, Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing (Oxford UP 2017) and South Africa Textual Cultures (Manchester UP 2007), and, as co-editor, (most recently) South African Writing in Transition (Bloomsbury Academic 2019) and (forthcoming, both in 2023) The Bloomsbury Handbook to J. M. Coetzee (Bloomsbury Academic) and Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (Edinburgh UP).