Amanda du Preez is Professor in the Department of Visual Arts, where she has been teaching Visual Culture Studies since 2001. Some of the topics she teaches include Postmodernism; Visual Hermeneutics; Gender and Feminism; Critical Visual Culture Studies and importantly Virtual and Digital Culture. She has been rewarded for her innovative work in the development of undergraduate and postgraduate modules on digital culture with the Teaching Excellence Award for 2015. In these modules she has implemented a balanced mix of hybrid learning and teaching strategies. In 2013 Prof du Preez also received the award as Researcher of the Year (Arts Cluster), which just shows that good research makes for good teaching.

She obtained a DPhil in English from the University of South Africa on the topic of cyberfeminism and embodiment in 2003. She has co-edited 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 Persona Studies journal and is a member of the advisory board of VIAD (UJ). However, most notably she serves on the Governing Board of the International Association for Visual Culture with Michael Anne Holly (president) and Nicholas Mirzoeff (deputy director). She received a C2 rating from the NRF in 2013.

Her current obsession is to pursue a digital humanities project on self-representation and social media.