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Hire Dr. Sonja S.

South Africa

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Editor and Experienced Researcher in the Arts and Humanities (Performance, Film, Philosophy, Literature, Culture)

Profile Summary

I have been working in the creative arts in higher education for many years, specifically as a lecturer (theory and practice), researcher, and supervisor. The training I have takes an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge acquisition which has enabled me to cross into different fields. Specialize in qualitative research as well as practice-as-research methodologies.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Drama & Theater Arts
• ☆ Modern Philosophy
• ☆ Cultural Studies
• ☆ Dance
• ☆ Art Education
• ☆ Film Studies
• ☆ Film Criticism
• ☆ Film Production
• ☆ Art Criticism
• ☆ Art History
• ☆ Semiotics
• ☆ Liberal Arts Education
• ☆ Experiential Education
• ☆ Research

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Market Research, User Research, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Digital Strategy Consulting

Work Experience

Research Supervisor and Lecturer

AFDA Gqeberha

April 2017 - January 2022

Production Course Manager

AFDA School for the Creative Economy

February 2018 - September 2018

Dance Lecturer

University of Zululand

April 2017 - February 2018

Postdoctoral researcher

Rhodes University

April 2014 - March 2017

Lecturer and supervisor

Rhodes University

January 2011 - December 2016

Education

PhD (Drama)

Rhodes University

January 2011 - April 2014

Master of Arts (M.A.) in Drama

Rhodes University

January 2008 - December 2009

Certifications

• PhD in Drama

  Rhodes University

  February 2011 - April 2013

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sonja Smit(2019). ‘There is nothing to hold onto here’: complicity and vulnerability in Gavin Krastin’s On Seeing Red and Other Fantasies (2015) . South African Theatre Journal. 32. (3). p. 257--271. Informa {UK} Limited

@article{Smit_2017, doi = {10.1080/14682761.2016.1269274}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14682761.2016.1269274}, year = 2017, month = {jan}, publisher = {Informa {UK} Limited}, volume = {38}, number = {1}, pages = {62--77}, author = {Sonja Smit}, title = {Thinking through Nicola Elliott'{sBruising}(2014)}, journal = {Studies in Theatre and Performance}} .

@article{Smit_2015, doi = {10.1080/23311983.2015.1064246}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080%2F23311983.2015.1064246}, year = 2015, month = {aug}, publisher = {Informa {UK} Limited}, volume = {2}, number = {1}, pages = {1064246}, author = {Sonja Smit}, editor = {Valerie Su-Lin Wee}, title = {Enter the imperceptible: Reading Die Antwoord}, journal = {Cogent Arts {\&} Humanities}} .

Smit, S. 2015. The Search for a more desirable Origin: Steven Cohen's 'The Cradle of Humankind'. Liminalities: Journal of Performance Studies. Vol. 11. Issue. 5. ISSN: 1557-2935 .

@article{Smit_2012, doi = {10.1080/10137548.2012.839125}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080%2F10137548.2012.839125}, year = 2012, month = {jul}, publisher = {Informa {UK} Limited}, volume = {26}, number = {2}, pages = {139--150}, author = {Sonja Smit}, title = {Performing the inarticulate: an analysis of Jaco Bouwer{\textquotesingle}{sUntitled}(2008)}, journal = {South African Theatre Journal}} .

CONFERENCE PAPER

Smit, S. 2015. Confluences 8: Negotiating Contemporary Dance in Africa. ‘Thinking through Dance: An analysis of Nicola Elliott’s Bruising (2014)’. pp Edited by Sharon Friedman. UCT School of Dance Woolsack Drive. Rosebank. Cape Town .

(2012). Meaning-making in 'How a Dead Dog Explains Soccer to Sonja Smit'. African Theatre Association 2012 Annual International Conference.

Smit, S. 2011. Confluences 6: Physicality and Performance. ‘Becoming: Transformation and Embodiment in Ankoku Butoh practices’. pp. 289-299. University of Cape Town (UCT) School of Dance Woolsack Drive. Rosebank. Cape Town .

BOOK CHAPTER

@incollection{2012, doi = {10.1163/9781848881051_001}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1163%2F9781848881051_001}, year = 2012, month = {may}, publisher = {{BRILL}}, pages = {i--xiv}, title = {Preliminary Material}, booktitle = {On Whiteness}} .