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Distinguised Professor
Name: Keyan Tomaselli
Location: B-ring 6 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
CaM Senior Research Fellows, Department of Communication and Media Staff, Rated Researchers听 Staff Members
Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 2735
Email:听keyant@uj.ac.za
About Prof Keyan Tomaselli
Keyan G Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor, Dean鈥檚 Office, Faculty of Humanities, 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg, administered from the Dept of Communication and Media, School of Communication, Auckland Park campus.
He is author of many books, e.g., The Cinema of Apartheid (1988, 2014),听Richard Green in South African Film:听 Forging Creative new Directions (2023), Encountering Modernity:听 20th Century South African Film (2006); Appropriating Images:听 The Semiotics of Visual Representation听(1999) and co-editor Cultural Icons (2009). He is founding editor, now co-editor of Critical Arts:听 South-North Cultural and Media Studies and of the Journal of African Cinemas. He is author also of Contemporary Campus Life:听Transformation, Manic Managerialism and Transformation (2021), a critical management studies satire of the modern university.
Tomaselli is Laureate Fellow, International Communicology Institute and currently chair of the Scholarly Publication Committee of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Tomaselli is also Honorary Professor, Centre for Trans-media and Trans-culture, Capital Normal 欧美福利100000, Beijing,听and Professor Emeritus and Fellow, 欧美福利100000 of Kwazulu-Natal.
Recipient of the Simon 鈥淢abhunu鈥� Sabela Award in the 鈥楬eroes and Legends鈥� category for his service to the South African film industry.
His interest is in Peirceian semiotics, reception analysis and translation as applied within the paradigm of cultural and media studies.