Corinne Sandwith is Professor of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and is the author of World of Letters: Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa (2014) and co-editor with M.J. Daymond of Africa South: Viewpoints, 1958-1961. Her research interests include African print and reading cultures and the history of dissident reading and cultural debate in early apartheid South Africa. Her recent work focuses on early twentieth-century Black South African newspapers as an index of Black intellectual life. Particular focus areas include the life and form of the newspaper, counter-political framings, aesthetic debates and the circulation and citation of texts across disparate reading contexts.