Institutions of Public Culture
2007-2008 Visiting Fellows
Visiting Research Fellows
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. 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. Gary Minkley (Fort Hare University, Head of Research, History Department) research concentrates on questions of urban space, history, and administration. His articles have addressed "native" administration in Eastern Cape towns like East London, and he has also written generally on the spaces of South African townships. His current work also includes questions of heritage and visual history. While at Emory Minkley will be working on essays for a co-authored book entitled South Africa and the Spectacle of Public History.
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