Max Rayneard

Author of Telling

Max Rayneard is a South African Fulbright scholar presently undertaking a PhD in the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Oregon. Prior to his arrival in the US, he completed a Masters Degree in English Literature at Rhodes University (2002) and taught literature at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (2002-2004) in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, during which time he co-founded and edited the literary journal SHARP!  Max is an active playwright. About Midnight was performed at the 1999 South African National Arts Festival. Muti Inc. was an educational piece commissioned by UBOM! Eastern Cape Drama Company. The play aimed to inform rural communities and school children about the pros and cons of genetically modified crops.  It toured extensively throughout the Eastern Cape in 2004/5.  His research interest is the status of literary studies in developing and cross-cultural contexts, with a particular focus on the social worth of literary pedagogy.