Professor Amanda du Preez

Humanities 2015 Teaching Excellence Award Lecturer of the Year

Professor Amanda du Preez, Department of Visual Arts

Amanda du Preez is Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria, where she teaches Visual Culture Studies. She obtained a DPhil in English from the University of South Africa on the topic of cyberfeminism and embodiment in 2003. She has coedited South African visual culture (2005); edited Taking a hard look: gender and visual culture (2009) and authored Gendered bodies and new technologies: rethinking embodiment in a cyber-era (2009). She served as assistant editor of two accredited journals, Image & Text and De Arte. Currently, she serves on the editorial board of Gender Questions, the advisory board of the new journal Persona Studies, as well as the advisory board of VIAD (UJ). She is also a member of the International Scientific Board for the book series of Filmforum (Italy) and most notably, a member of the Governing Board of the International Association for Visual Culture. She has a C2 rating from the NRF and received the award as researcher of the year (Arts Cluster) in 2013.

Lecturer in the Department since 2001, teaching Visual Culture Studies – current subjects are Postmodernism, Visual Hermeneutics, Virtual Culture, South African Visual Culture, Key Texts in Visual Culture and Digital Culture.
 

 

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