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Dr. Mufunanji Willard Moffat Magalasi

EXECUTIVE DEAN
School of Arts, Communication and Design

Research Areas

Drama and theatre aesthetics, Cinema in Africa, Theatre for Development, Development Communication, Development Broadcasting, Popular Culture in the postcolony, Gender and representation, Indigeneity and aesthetics of performance and being,

Profile

Mufunanji Magalasi was trained at Afrika Cultural Centre and University of Witwatersrand as an entertainment and community theatre for social development artist and practitioner. He holds a PhD from Universities of Malawi and the West of England, Bristol. He has taught in institutions of high learning for the past 29 years, including University of Witwatersrand, University of Leeds, University of Malawi and has been a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University, New York, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, and University of Dar es salaam . He has published a monograph, Stage Drama in independent Malawi, 1980-2002, apart from Beyond the Barricades, a collection of contemporary Malawian plays. He has also published peer refereed articles in numerous journals including Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of Humanities, Transformation, African Performance Review, Journal of Development and Education Studies, the Gauteng Arts List, apart from multi-disciplinary journals on development studies in the areas of Agriculture and society. As a consultant, he has done numerous social development fieldworks with IDRC, CIDA, UK AID, EU Horizon 2020, Save the Children International, Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation, to name a few. Former Head of Fine and Performing Arts, and Dean of Humanities, he coordinates Postgraduate Programmes in the area of Theatre and Media Communications in Development. He has collaborated with counterparts from Tuscia University, Italy; Wegenengen University, Netherlands, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Cornell University, Leeds University, University of Zimbabwe, Haramaya University, Ethiopia to name but a few. He is presently the Lead Researcher for the Parasport Against Stigma on People with Disabilities (in Malawi), collaborating with the Institute of Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University, London, and Deputy Editor in Chief for the Journal of Humanities.

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