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Associate Professor Meg Samuelson is affiliated with the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. Her research focuses on postcolonial literatures of the Indian Ocean world, African diasporic narratives, and environmental humanities. Key interests include oceanic cultural studies, maritime histories, and the intersections of ecology with literary form. Her work often engages with questions of spatiality, displacement, and cosmopolitanism in texts from South Africa and beyond.
Her scholarly contributions emphasize transoceanic networks, material textuality in colonial contexts, and the reimagining of global literary geographies. Notable projects explore amphibious narrative forms shaped by coastal and littoral environments. She has published extensively on authors such as Abdulrazak Gurnah, Zoë Wicomb, and K. Sello Duiker, analyzing how their works negotiate postcolonial identities through oceanic frameworks.
Recent publications (2023) investigate containerization's environmental impact and blue focalization techniques in contemporary fiction. Earlier works (2020-2010) address urban imaginaries, ecocritical perspectives, and the role of coastal spaces in shaping cultural memory. Though no formal awards are listed, her impactful scholarship has influenced critical debates in postcolonial and world literature studies.
Her academic profile reflects a sustained engagement with the University of Adelaide's humanities initiatives, with research office located in the Napier Building on North Terrace campus. No student advisees or grant details are explicitly noted in current records.
