Lindiwe Dovey
Education
University of Cambridge, 2001-2005
Ph.D. in African Cinema and Literature; 100% funded through Harvard-Cambridge and Trinity
College scholarships
Harvard University, 1997-2001
BA Honors, with Highest Honors in Film Production and Theory, and Literature; Phi Beta Kappa;
95% funded through Walter Annenberg scholarship
Career
2010-
Senior Lecturer in African Film and Performance Arts, Department of African
Languages and Cultures, SOAS, University of London.
2007-2010
Lecturer in African Film and Performance Arts, Department of African
Languages and Cultures, SOAS, University of London.
2006-2007
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anglophone and
Francophone Film, French Department and English Faculty, University of
Cambridge.
Research Fellow, New Hall, University of Cambridge. Held in conjunction with
the Mellon Fellowship.
2006-2007
Significant Recent Positions, Awards, and Prizes
Sep 2015-
Chair of the Centre for Film Studies, SOAS, University of London.
2011-2014
Philip Leverhulme Prize. The highest academic honour for scholars under the
age of 36 in the UK, the prize comes with an award of £70,000 to be put towards
the scholar’s research. See http://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem72332.html
2011
SOAS Director’s Teaching Prize. The highest award for teaching at SOAS,
University of London, this prize recognises excellence in teaching, the promotion
of learning within the School and the enrichment of the curriculum. See
http://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem69698.html
2010
Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for monograph African Film and
Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen (Columbia University Press, 2009).
See: http://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem56735.html
Other Relevant Activities
2011-2012
Film Africa. Co-founder, co-director, and film programme director of London’s
annual African film festival. See www.filmafrica.org.uk
2001-present
Cambridge African Film Festival. Founding Director of the UK’s oldest annual
African film festival. See www.cambridgeafricanfilmfestival.org.uk
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Publications
Authored Books
Dovey, Lindiwe (12 March 2015) Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen. New York:
Columbia University Press. Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.
Special Issues of Journals Edited
Dovey, Lindiwe, ed. (2010) Journal of African Cultural Studies. Special issue: African film and
video: pleasure, politics, performance, v.22 (1). Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.
Dovey, Lindiwe, ed. (2010) Journal of African Media Studies. Volume 2 Issue 1. Intellect.
Book Chapters
Dovey, Lindiwe (forthcoming 2015) ‘Mixing it Up: New Audiovisual Cultures in South Africa.’ In:
Ebrahim, Haseenah and Ellapen, Jordache (eds), Mzansi at the Movies, Johannesburg: UNISA
Press.
Dovey, Lindiwe (forthcoming 2015) ‘”Bergman in Uganda”: Ugandan Veejays, Swedish Pirates,
and the Political Value of Live Adaptation.’ In Hassler-Forest, Dan and Nicklas, Pascal (eds), The
Politics of Adaptation: Media Convergence and Ideology, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 99-113.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2014) ‘Fools, or the importance of being able to tell ‘messy’ stories at the ‘wrong’
time.’ In: Murphy, David and Bisschoff, Lizelle (eds), Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of
African Cinema, Oxford: Legenda.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) ‘Fidelity, Simultaneity and the ‘Remaking’ of Adaptation Studies.’ In:
Nicklas, Pascal and Lindner, Oliver, (eds.), Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation: Literature, Film,
and the Arts. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 162-185.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) ‘Storytelling in Contemporary African Fiction Film and Video.’ In: Khatib,
Lina, (ed.), Storytelling in World Cinemas Volume 1. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 89103.
Dovey, Lindiwe and Singer, Christine (2012) ‘Representations of African childhood in conflict and
post-conflict contexts: Johnny Mad Dog, Ezra, and Sleepwalking Land.’ In: Olson, Debbie and
Scahill, Andrew, (eds.), Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema. Plymouth: Lexington
Books, pp. 151-174.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2011) ‘Film and Postcolonial Writing.’ In: Quayson, Ato, (ed.), The Cambridge
History of Postcolonial Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1039-1067.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2010) ‘Directors’ Cut: In Defence of African Film Festivals outside Africa.’ In:
Iordanova, Dina and Cheung, Ruby, (eds.), Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined
Communities. St Andrews Film Studies, pp. 45-73.
Dovey, Lindiwe and Dovey, Teresa (2010) ‘Coetzee on Film.’ In: J.M. Coetzee's Austerities.
Surrey, England; Burlington, USA: Ashgate, pp. 57-78.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2008) ‘Eyes Wide Shut: Kubrick and the Representation of Gender.’ In: Rhodes,
Gary, (ed.), Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy. Jefferson: McFarland.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2005) ‘Politicising Adaptation: Re-historicising South African Literature through
Fools.’ In: Aragay, M., (ed.), Books in Motion. Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship. Rodopi, pp.
163-179.
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Articles
Dovey, Lindiwe and Federico Olivieri (2015). ‘Festivals and the politics of space and mobility: the
Tarifa/Cordoba African Film Festival as Nomadic Heterotopia.’ Screen 56.1 (Spring).
Dovey, Lindiwe (2015). ‘Through the Eye of a Film Festival: Toward a Curatorial and SpectatorCentered Approach to the Study of African Screen Media.’ Cinema Journal 54.2 (Winter): 125-131.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2014). ‘Curating Africa: Teaching African Film through the Lens of Film Festivals.’
Special dossier on pedagogy surrounding film festivals. Scope: an online journal of film & tv
studies.
Dovey, Lindiwe and Joshua McNamara and Federico Olivieri (2013). ‘“From, By, For”: Nairobi’s
Slum Film Festival, Film Festival Studies, and the Practices of Development.’ Jump Cut 55.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2013) ‘Film Africa 2012: Reflections.’ Journal of African Cultural Studies 25 (1).
pp. 122-127.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) ‘Report on Film Africa: Celebrating African Cinema, 3-13 November 2011.’
Journal of African Cultural Studies, 24 (1). pp. 113-120.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2012) ‘New Looks: The Rise of African Women Filmmakers.’ Feminist Africa, 16 .
pp. 18-36.
Dovey, Lindiwe and Impey, Angela (2010) ‘African Jim: sound, politics, and pleasure in early
‘black’ South African cinema.’ Journal of African Cultural Studies, 22 (1). pp. 57-73.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2010) ‘Editorial: African film and video: pleasure, politics, performance.’ Journal of
African Cultural Studies, 22 (1). pp. 1-6.
Dovey, Lindiwe and Davies, James (2010) ‘Bizet in Khayelitsha: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha as audiovisual transculturation.’ Journal of African Media Studies, 2 (1). pp. 39-53.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2010) ‘Editorial: Towards interpretation of screen media in Africa.’ Journal of
African Media Studies, 2 (1). pp. 3-7.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) ‘Subjects of exile: Alienation in Francophone West African cinema.’
International Journal of Francophone Studies .
Dovey, Lindiwe (2007) ‘Redeeming Features: From Tsotsi (1980) to Tsotsi (2006).’ Journal of
African Cultural Studies, 19 (2). pp. 143-164.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2005) ‘South African Cinema in Exile.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 41 (2). pp.
189-199.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2002) ‘Towards an Art of Adaptation: Film and the New Criticism-as-Creation.’
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 2. pp. 51-61.
Book Reviews
Dovey, Lindiwe (2011) ‘Review of Men in African Film & Fiction, edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane.’
English in Africa, 38 (3). pp. 147-152.
Dovey, Lindiwe (2009) ‘Review of The Devil you Dance With: Film Culture in the New South
Africa.’ Cineaste, 35 (1). pp. 80-82.
Editorial Board Member
Journal of African Cultural Studies
Journal of African Cinemas
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