Here is the \u201cResearch Portrait\u201d of Indiana Lods, published on our Instagram account<\/a> in November 2024. Indiana is a PhD student in literature at the University of Bourgogne (Dijon, France), supervised by Prof. M\u00e9lanie Joseph-Vilain. Through the figure of the \u201cmonster\u201d, her research project, supported by IFAS-Research in 2024, analyses the thematic and aesthetic similarities and contrasts between South African speculative literature and American Afrofuturist texts. On the 11th<\/sup> of July 2024, she co-organised a workshop at IFAS-Research about the “South African Speculative Arts”<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n November 2024 Voici le \u00ab Portrait de recherche \u00bb d’Indiana Lods, publi\u00e9 sur notre compte Instagram en novembre 2024. Indiana est doctorante en litt\u00e9rature \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Bourgogne\u00a0(Dijon, France), sous la direction de M\u00e9lanie Joseph-Vilain. \u00c0 travers la figure du \u00ab monstre \u00bb, son projet de recherche, soutenue par l’IFAS-Recherche en 2024, analyse les \u00e9l\u00e9ments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,43,46,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-dissemination","category-research-portraits","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1-1-1024x1024.png\")
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