Charika
Swanepoel
Doctoral Researcher, English, Classics and Multilingual Translation Studies
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Biography
Charika Swanepoel is a Doctoral Researcher at the English Department of the University of Turku. Her research concerns the syncretic religious enterprise of Irish poet, W.B. Yeats. Her Master's degree, completed at the North-West University in South Africa, compared the later works of W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot in the context of post-secularism. Her overall research interests include Modernism, religious syncretism, and secular philosophy.
Teaching
Charika has taught English and Afrikaans academic literacy at the North-West University in South Africa (2017-2021) and is currently teaching English Academic Writing and Business Communication at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki.
Publications
William Butler YEETS: Allusions to Yeats in Internet Meme Culture (2023)
International Yeats Studies
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‘For a further union’: Conceptions of Unity in the Later W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot (2022)
English Studies in Africa
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Three sources of W.B. Yeats’s syncretic Christ: Dante, Blake and the Upanishads (2022)
Open library of humanities
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