Sarah Nuttall was director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research from 2013 to 2022.
12 Facts About Sarah Nuttall
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Sarah Nuttall has published widely about post-apartheid South Africa, including on topics in literary theory, cultural theory, urban theory, and aesthetics.
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Sarah Nuttall completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Natal and a master's degree at the University of Cape Town.
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Between 1997 and 2001, Sarah Nuttall was a lecturer in the English department at Stellenbosch University.
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In 2011, Sarah Nuttall left Wits and WiSER to return, briefly, to Stellenbosch; she was appointed director of WiSER in early 2013.
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Sarah Nuttall said that at WiSER she would attempt to "desegregate the conversations, bringing in people around the table and making sure the conversations are as wide as possible".
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Sarah Nuttall served two terms as WiSER director, leaving the office at the and 2022.
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Sarah Nuttall retained her research position at the institute and remained a professor of literary and cultural studies at Wits.
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Sarah Nuttall has an appointment at the European Graduate School and is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
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Sarah Nuttall's 2009 monograph, Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid, is a collection of essays about post-apartheid South Africa, loosely connected by the theme of "entanglement", which Sarah Nuttall defined as "a critical sub-terrain of latent potential in the post-apartheid context".
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Sarah Nuttall edited Beautiful Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics, a collection of essays on African aesthetics, which won the 2007 Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award.
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Sarah Nuttall has co-edited several collections, including Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa with Carli Coetzee, about the production of memory in post-apartheid South Africa; and, with Liz McGregor, At Risk and Load Shedding, two collections of essays about contemporary life in South Africa.