Charne Lavery

Charne Lavery is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and serves as the Co-director of the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project, which is based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand.123 Her research focuses on literary and cultural representations of oceans, particularly the deep ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Antarctic seas. She explores ocean writing from the global South in the context of environmental change.1

Lavery completed her DPhil in English at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and holds a BA from the University of Cape Town.1 She has also served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wits from 2014 to 2016.1 Additionally, Lavery is involved in various scholarly activities, including being a delegate to the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), co-editing the Palgrave series Maritime Literature and Culture, and serving on the board of the journal Global Nineteenth-Century Studies.1 Her first book, "Writing Ocean Worlds: Indian Ocean Fiction in English," was published in 2021.1