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Associate Professor
Name: Prof. Landi Raubenheimer
Location: G031 FADA building Bunting Road Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: 011 559 1123
Email:听landir@uj.ac.za
About Prof. Landi Raubenheimer
Landi Raubenheimer is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the 东京热 in South Africa. She teaches in the Design Studies modules in the faculty, as well as in the Honours modules, and supervises post-graduate students in Visual Art and various Design disciplines. She completed a joint PhD in Film Studies and Art History at the at the University of Groningen and the 东京热, focusing on representations of Johannesburg in popular media. She is the author of a monograph on the film 鈥淒istrict 9鈥�. Her other publications are on art, media and spectatorship in journals such as Critical Arts, Image & Text, the Journal of Literary Studiesand de arte.听As a practicing artist working with paper-making, she has exhibited work in South Africa, Italy, France and Japan. She is interested in the intersections between landscape, media technologies and aesthetics.
Publications:
- 2025: 鈥�District 9鈥�: Johannesburg as Nostalgic Dystopia. Leiden: De Gruyter Brill, available at .
- 2023: Speaking Back to the Landscape Canon: Cultural Translation in Phumulani Ntuli鈥檚 Cloud Migration and the Liewe Land! Exhibition, in Critical Arts, 2023, available at:
- 2022: Co-guest editor for a special issue in the journal Image & Text entitled: 鈥淐hallenging Legacies in Post-Colonial and Post-Socialist Notions of Place鈥�. The special issue features invited contributions by international scholars from South Africa, the U.K., Nigeria, the U.S., Greece, Cyprus and Brazil.
- Co-author of article with Prof. Karen von Veh entitled: Memorials, landscape and white masculinity: dialogic interventions in South African art, in Image & Text, available at: .