J.M. Coetzee: Biographical Information
Lucy Valerie Graham, Lincoln College, Oxford
Birthplace:
Cape Town, South Africa, February 9, 1940
Education
University of Cape Town: MA on the work of Ford Madox Ford
University of Texas (US): PhD on the work of Samuel Beckett
Apart from literature, Coetzee has also studied linguistics (post-structuralist
linguistics) and computer science.
Recent Academic Positions
Arderne Chair of Literature, University of Cape Town
Rhoda & Elliott Levinthal Distinguished Visitor, Stanford University (USA)
Coetzee is Professor of Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide
Last modied May 2000