APC welcomes new Honorary Research Fellows to UCT

13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015

Archive & Public Culture warmly welcomes APC Honorary Research Fellows Dr Litheko Modisane and Dr Lesley Cowling to UCT.
 

Dr Modisane, who has taken up the position of Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media, is currently writing a book on the representation of Nelson Mandela in cinema and television.

His previous book, South Africa’s Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centred Films, was published by Palgrave Macmillan (New York) in 2013, and focuses on the public lives of iconic black-centred films in South Africa, from the colonial to the post-apartheid eras.

Dr Lesley Cowling is Masters coordinator of the Journalism programme at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Her research focuses on the relationship of media to South African public life, with a particular focus on journalism forms such as long-form reporting, opinion, analysis and debate, and their role in creating publics. A related interest is in the ways the commercial features of the media intersect with the public interest role allotted to them in society.  

She has a PhD from Rhodes University, and has worked as a journalist, a soap opera writer and a media consultant.

Modisane,Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton pursue a variety of joint projects under the aegis of the Public Life of Ideas network, facilitated by the APC.​