Sarah Nuttall

Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at WISER at the University of the Witwatersrand. For a decade, from 2013-2023 she was Director of the Institute. She is the author or editor of more than fifteen books, with a focus on literary and cultural theory, city forms and city lives, visual cultures, hinterlands, critical university studies and southern African literatures and cultures relating to heat, air, rain, plant lives and avian encounters. Her work is widely cited across disciplines. Sarah wrote her PhD as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, has taught at Yale and Duke Universities and is a previous Fellow of the Hutchins Centre/du Bois Institute at Harvard University.