ACTING HEAD OF DEPARTMENT:

Prof Lize Kriel
Tel: +27 12 420 5732
E-mail: [email protected]
Writing and printing cultures, memory and nostalgia, missionary legacies

FINE ARTS

Avitha Sooful
Tel: +27 12 420 6783
Email: [email protected]
Avitha Sooful's research interest is invested in feminist and social political discourses inherent in South Africa.

Dr Johan Thom
Tel: +27 12 420 6414
Email: [email protected]
Materiality in fine art across a range of theoretic frameworks that include evolutionary approaches to art-making & post-phenomenological, performative approaches to the body and its identity.

Nicola Grobler
Tel: +27 12 420 6524
Email: [email protected]
Fine Art practices in sculpture, drawing, installation and collaborative modes; human-animal representations; ecology; the everyday, aesthetics and agency.

Natalie Fossey
Tel: +27 12 420 2782
Email: [email protected]
Fine Art practices in sequential art narratives and collaborative printmaking processes.

INFORMATION DESIGN

Dr Duncan Reyburn
Tel: +27 12 420 5189
Email: [email protected]
Propaganda / persuasion; advertising; media and technology; social media

Fatima Cassim
Tel: +27 12 420 5188
Email: [email protected]
Design thinking; design for development; design activism; design education; civic engagement

VISUAL STUDIES

Prof Amanda du Preez
Tel: +27 12 420 3755
E-mail: [email protected]
Self-representation and social media, popular visual culture, feminist and gender issues in visual culture, digital culture 

Prof Lize Kriel
Tel: +27 12 420 5732
E-mail: [email protected]
Writing and printing cultures, memory and nostalgia, missionary legacies

Dr Jenni Lauwrens
Tel: +27 12 420 4164
E-mail: [email protected]
Ideological critique of visual culture, contemporary visuality, vision, sight and the construction of seeing.

Rory du Plessis
Tel: +27 12 420 3600
E-mail: [email protected]
Discourses of mental health and gender / sexuality studies.