Institutions of Public Culture
2007-2008 Visiting Fellows
Visiting Research Fellows
Dr. Gary Minkley (Fort Hare University, Head of Research, History Department and Director of Postgraduate Studies) has a PhD from the University of Cape Town, entitled ‘Border Dialogues: Race, Class and Space in the Industrialisation of East London’ and has published widely on various aspects of Eastern Cape history. More recently, much of his research and teaching work has been in engaging with public pasts in South Africa and also in the field of visual histories. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled ‘Visual Histories, Performance and Public Culture in the Eastern Cape.’ He is currently working on the completion of a co-authored book with colleagues Ciraj Rassool and Leslie Witz from the University of the Western Cape, where he also worked for fifteen years, entitled ‘South Africa and the Spectacle of Public Pasts’. Dr. Minkley will be at CSPS during Fall 2008.
Dr. David Bunn (University of Witswatersrand, Chair, History of Art Department) has an undergraduate degrees from Rhodes University, and a Masters and Doctorate from Northwestern University. He is a cultural theorist who works on contemporary South African culture, and in interdisciplinary landscape studies, visual theory, and anthropology, having published widely in all these areas. In the past, he has been the recipient of major research awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship and Rockefeller and Andrew Mellon Foundation awards, and has been a visiting professor at Northwestern and the University of Chicago.
Dr. Bunn just completed his term as Head of the Wits School of Arts, and currently, he is also the academic director of the University of Chicago study-abroad program in South Africa. In 1987, he co-edited From South Africa (University of Chicago Press) with Jane Taylor. While at Emory University, Dr. Bunn will work on completing Land Acts, a scholarly book on interdisciplinary South African landscape studies. Dr. Bunn will be at CSPS during Fall 2007.
Dr. Jane Taylor (Wits School of the Arts, Skye Chair of Dramatic Art and Head of the Division of Dramatic Arts) has a PhD in English from Northwestern University on Restoration theatre and the new commodity markets. In 1996 she curated Fault Lines, an exhibition about issues of truth and reconciliation. In 1998, she curated “Holdings" Rethinking the Archive (David Philip publishers, 2002). In 1996 she wrote the play Ubu and the Truth Commission for Handspring Puppet Company. She has, with composer Kevin Volans, written a new piece of music theatre based on the work of Italo Svevo. Directed by the artist William Kentridge, the production was commissioned by DOKUMENTA, 2002. This piece opened at the KunstenFest in Brussels in 2001. In 1999, Taylor directed Puccini's La Boheme for the Spier Theatre Festival in Cape Town.
Taylor has won Rockefeller and Mellon Fellowships. She has written on contemporary South African culture, and in 1987 she co-edited From South Africa with David Bunn (University of Chicago Press). Taylor teaches film studies, with a particular emphasis on the thriller and psychoanalytic theory. While at Emory University, she will work on her current project, a book on sincerity. This work arises from an intersection of several interests: theatre arts, portraiture, legal studies, philosophy, and history. Dr. Taylor will be at CSPS during Fall 2007.
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