Professor: Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape
Moderator: Seducing Audiences: Understanding the Craft and Politics Behind the Male Gaze in Cinema
Desiree Lewis is a professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape. She has published numerous articles, essays and book chapters in the fields of African feminist politics and scholarship, South African cultural studies, black women’s writing and, more recently, food as material culture.