Emerita Prof. Lesley Marx

Lesley used to look up at “Moscow on the Hill” as her dad drove her to school every morning, and dream of how wonderful it would be to study at what one of her High School Principals called “that august institution”.

And study at UCT she did—as a student in the seventies, and as a teacher from the eighties until 2020, when, in accordance with the rules, she retired to ponder the meaning of life. As a teacher she tried to impart what she had learned to many, many students who were her raison d’être. Here’s a fun blast from the past that says it all.

She served as head of the English Department, Deputy Dean in the new Faculty of Humanities and Founding Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies. She taught and published on literature, film and topics in South African and American culture.

She wishes health, happiness and au revoir to everyone who may have known her.

In the immortal words of the devil who wears Prada, “That’s all".