Amanda du Preez is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria, where she teaches Visual Culture Studies. She obtained a DPhil in English from the University of South Africa on the topic of cyberfeminism and embodiment in 2003. She has co-edited South African Visual Culture (2005) and is the editor of Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture (2009). She has served on several editorial and advisory boards and has published widely on topics mainly pertaining to gender, embodiment and the sublime.
Research highlights
Books
J van Eeden & A du Preez, (eds) 2005. South African visual culture. Pretoria: Van Schaik. Foreword by Prof Nicholas Mirzoeff, University of New York.
A du Preez, 2000. Gender roles and advertising, in Women, society and constraints. A collection of contemporary South African gender studies, edited by J Malherbe, Marc Kleijwegt and Elize Koen. Pretoria:Unisa Press:157-168.
A du Preez, 2004. Is the subject of science and new technologies still sexed and gendered?, in The gender perspective: Innovations in economy, organisations and health within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Frankfurt: Peter Lang:74-105.
J van Eeden & A du Preez, 2005. Introduction, in South Africa visual culture, Pretoria: Van Schaik:1-9
A du Preez, 2005. Misbehaving tools: the politics of human-technology interactions, in South African Visual Culture edited by J van Eeden & A du Preez. Pretoria:Van Schaik:134-151.
A du Preez, 2006. Technology and transsexuality: secret alliances, in Sex, gender, becoming. Post-apartheid reflections, edited by K van Marle. Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press:1-18.
A du Preez, 2007. Leë erotiek: beloftes van erotiese vervulling in populêre visuele kultuur [Empty eroticism: promises of erotic fulfillment in popular visual culture], in Liefde is die Grootste: Oor Erotiek en Seksualiteit [Love is the Greatest: On Eroticism and Sexuality], edited by C Vos & D Human. Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis:249-259.
A du Preez, 2008. (Im)materiality: On the matter of art, in Visuality/Commentary, edited by J van Eeden. University of Pretoria:186-191.
A du Preez, 2008. “The contemporary sublime and the culture of extremes: La Parkour and finding the freedom of the city”, Representation and Spatial Practices in Urban South Africa. Johannesburg: The Research Centre, Visual Identities in Art and Design, (ISBN: 978-0-620-42744-9),7-16.
A du Preez, 2009. For real: Hysteria, transsexuality and femininity as masquerade, in Taking a hard look: gender and visual culture, edited by A du Preez. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing:235-249.
A du Preez, 2010. “Posthuman aesthetics of transcendence: Blank canvasses and naked faces”. Homo transcendentalis? Transcendence in science and religion: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Pretoria: Unisa Press, (ISBN: 978-1-86888-65-55).
A du Preez, 2011. “Thrilling! Transcendence and the contemporary cultures of the extreme”. Culture and Transcendence, Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. (forthcoming)
Publications in refereed accredited journals
A du Preez, 1993. Die Pretoria Art Association en die Pretoria News: georganiseerde kunsaktiwiteite in Pretoria 1902-1906. The South African Journal of Art and Architectural History 3(1-4), February:44-58.
A du Preez, 1993. Pierre van der Westhuizen: printmaker. Image & Text 2:37-39.
A du Preez, 1997. ‘No more I love Yous’: Moving into the twilight zone with Tracy Payne’s gender-(in)betweeners. De Arte 56:29-39.
A du Preez, 1997. Femme Fatale revamped. Image & Text 7:18-23.
A du Preez, 2000. Virtual babes: gender, archetypes and computer games. Communicatio 26(2):18-27.
A du Preez, 2003. (Re)mains: Local bodies and global information [Oorb(lyf)sels: lokale liggame en globale inligting]. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 43 (1&2):56-65.
A du Preez, 2004. Putting on appearances: mimetic representations of hysteria. De Arte 68:47-61.
A du Preez, 2004. Bungee jumping and the eXtreme sublime [Rekspring en die eKstreme sublieme], Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 42(2), September:55-68.
A du Preez, 2004. ‘The machine is a woman’ and other myths: a brief analysis of how technology is sexed and gendered. Image & Text 11:42-50.
A du Preez, 2004. Bodies as religion: immortality for beginners. Gender and Women’s Studies: Feminist knowledge. [O]. Available: http://www.gwsafrica.org/knowledge/amanda.html
A du Preez, 2005. The rhetorics of the eXtreme. Scriptura. International Journal of Bible, Religion and Theology in Southern Africa 90:651-59.
A du Preez, 2008. Through the empire’s eyes: engaging the gaze. Religion & Theology. (IBBS list, ISBN 1023-0807, Brill Academic Publishers).
A du Preez, 2008. (Im)Materiality: On the matter of art. Image & Text 14:30-41.
A du Preez, 2009. The sublime and the cultures of the extreme: An exploration. Communicatio 35(2):201-218.
A du Preez, 2010. ‘Material girls’: lingering in the presence of the material sublime. Critical Arts. (ISSN 0256-0046/Online 1992-6049) 24(3): 392–417.
Book reviews in accredited journals
A du Preez, 2004. Book review for Woman today. A celebration: fifty years of South African women compiled by Hilary Reynolds and Nancy Richards. Kwela: Cape Town, 2003. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 42(2), September:216-217.
A du Preez, 2005. Book review for Through the looking glass: representations of self by South African women artists.by Brenda Schmahmann. 2004. Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. De Arte 69:.
A du Preez, 2007. Book review for Memorandum: ‘n Verhaal in Skilderye by Marlene van Niekerk. 2006. Kaapstad & Pretoria: Human & Rousseau. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 44(2):266-267.
A du Preez, 2008. Book review for Diane Victor by Elizabeth Rankin and Karen von Veh. 2008. Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. De arte.
A du Preez, 2010. Book review for Art and the end of apartheid by John Peffer. 2009. University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis & London. De Arte 82:
A du Preez, 2010. Book review for South African Art Now by Sue Williamson 2009. HarperCollins: New York. De Arte 82:
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