Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Lindiwe Makgalemele is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Modern Culture and Media. Her work looks at film, photography, and digital media, seeking to interrogate various idioms of interpretation, particularly as they relate to black aesthetic productions and the ontological a priories through which spectator-spectacle binarisms gain their purchase. This research lies at the intersection of aesthetic theory, critical theory, and film and media studies. In addition to her scholarship, she has a filmmaking practice and is interested in disarticulating the binary between theory and practice. She was a 2021 Sundance Adobe Ignite Fellow and her previous filmic work has been programmed at festivals worldwide including Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Encounters Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, and the Durban International Film Festival. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.Sc. from the University of Oxford.