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Biography

My main research interests are literature in the classroom, critical digital literacy, and decolonisation.
I am currently supervising postgraduate students working on academic literacy, culturally sustaining pedagogy, and decolonisation of the literature curriculum.

Activities

Employment (1)

University of the Witwatersrand School of Education: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

2017-01-01 to present | Senior lecturer (Languages, Literacies and Literatures)
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Maria Prozesky

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Auckland: Auckland, NZ

2008 to 2013 | PhD
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Maria Prozesky

Funding (1)

Mellon Staff Development Grant

2018-10 to 2019-10 | Grant
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (NY, NY, US)
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Maria Prozesky

Works (17)

Literary reading as a socially responsive practice: Implications for literature pedagogy at higher education

Reading Research Quarterly
2025-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Naomi Nkealah; Maria Prozesky
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Projections on (re)designing pedagogical pathways towards decolonial praxis in postgraduate literacy education

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South
2024-09-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2523-1154
Contributors: Maria Prozesky; Ana Ferreira
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Literary reading as a web of relationships: Implications for pedagogy at a South African university

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Prozesky; Naomi Nkealah
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After disruption

Pedagogic innovation beyond disruption
2024-01-01 | Book chapter | Conceptualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Contributors: Maria Prozesky; Ana Ferreira; Laura Dison; Theresa Giorza; Anthony A. Essien
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The many voices of the ‘digital turn’: Four lines of inquiry into education and the digital in post-COVID-19 South Africa

2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Maria Prozesky
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African speculative fiction as Indigenous remembering: Contrasting stories by Jonathan Dotse and Masima Musodza

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
2022-05-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Prozesky
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Epistemological decolonization through a relational knowledge-making model

Africa Today
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85108662176

Part of ISSN: 15271978 00019887
Contributors: Botha, L.; Griffiths, D.; Prozesky, M.
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Pedagogical and decolonial affordances of group portfolio assessments for learning in south african universities

Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85116614873

Part of ISSN: 23107103
Contributors: Fouche, I.; Andrews, G.; Dison, L.; Prozesky, M.
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Mapping pathways for an indigenous poetry pedagogy: Performance, emergence and decolonisation

Education as Change
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85102110576

Part of ISSN: 19479417 16823206
Contributors: Mavhiza, G.; Prozesky, M.
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“[S]inne Shalle be no Shame, but Wurshipe to Man”: The Role of Chivalry and Chivalric Romance in Julian of Norwich’s Soteriology

English Studies
2020-02-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Prozesky
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The Multiliteracies Learning Environment as Decolonial Nexus: Designing for Decolonial Teaching in a Literacies Course at a South African University

Scrutiny2
2020-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Grant Andrews; Maria Prozesky; Ilse Fouché
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In-between access and transformation: Analysing a university writing centre’s academic support programme for education students as third space

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85078415582

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22243380 1726541X

Contributors: Namakula, H.; Prozesky, M.
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Imitatio in Julian of Norwich: Christ the Knight, Fruitio, and the Pleasures of Courtesy

Parergon
2013 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1832-8334
Contributors: Maria Prozesky
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The Politics of Dwelling: Being White / Being South African

Africa Today
2010 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0001-9887
Contributors: Griffiths; Prozesky
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<i>A Companion to Julian of Norwich</i> (review)

Parergon
2009 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1832-8334
Contributors: Maria Prozesky
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The Text Tale of Frodo the Nine-fingered: Residual Oral Patterning in The Lord of the Rings

Tolkien Studies
2006 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1547-3163
Contributors: Maria Prozesky
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‘For he is very curtes’: Courtesy as Phenomenology, Allegory and Ideal in Julian of Norwich

Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
2006 | Journal article
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