
Zakes Mda
Professor
Creative Writing: Fiction and Playwrighting
Office: Ellis 365
Office Phone: 593-9940
Email: mda@ohio.edu
Degrees
M.A., Ohio University
M.F.A., Ohio University
Ph.D., University of Cape Town
Publications
Novels:
The Madonna of Excelsior, (Oxford University Press, 2002)
The Heart of Redness (Farar, Strauss & Giroux, 2002)
Ways of Dying (Picador, 2002)
She Plays with the Darkness (Vivlia, 1995)
Melville 67 (Vivlia, 1998)
Plays:
Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating (3 plays)
The Plays of Zakes Mda
Four Plays
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses
Academic Books:
When People Play People: Development Communication through Theatre (Zed Books, 1991)
Courses
ENG 361 Creative Writing
ENG 466 Major International Authors
ENG 201 Critical Approach to Fiction
ENG 690 Creative Writing Seminar




