Senior Lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand

Qualifications:

• For appointment at the Senior Lecturer level, a PhD in Art History or related fields and a recognised teaching, supervision and research profile are required.

Experience:

• Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and curriculum development, within one or more of the department’s core fields of art historical, curatorial and/or heritage studies. This could include subjects such as historical and contemporary genres; colonial, decolonial and post-colonial studies; South African and African contexts and networks; interdisciplinary methods and methodologies; and, multidisciplinary and multimodal approaches.
• Proven experience of supervision of successfully graduated Honours and Master’s students, and experience of PhD level supervision.
• Proven track record of conventional and creative research outcomes in art histories and/or allied fields in the humanities, preferably in the arts.

Skills and Attributes:

• Experience with project management would be beneficial
• An interest in transformative pedagogies, decolonial curriculum development, and transformation within the humanities.

Responsibilities:

• Developing, teaching and coordinating courses in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
• Supervising postgraduate students at Honours, Master’s and PhD level
• Contributing to the development and management of departmental research, publication and creative partnership projects
• Contributing to the work of the department and the Wits School of Arts as a whole, such as actively engaging in committee work
• Contributing to fundraising strategies and applications for the department

Closing Date : 28 August 2026