Announcing the 2024 Javett-UP BRIDGE Fellow: Dr Georgia Nasseh

TORCH is delighted to announce that Dr Georgia Seabra Nasseh has been awarded the 2024 BRIDGE Javett-UP Fellowship.

Dr Georgia Nasseh is Departmental Lecturer in Brazilian and African Portuguese at the University of Oxford. Her PhD research was concerned with issues of multilingualism, translation, and ethics in Angolan literature from the 1950s to 1970s, with an emphasis on the work of José Luandino Vieira. Her wider research is concerned with the Global Sixties, anti-colonial and liberation movements in Portuguese-speaking Africa, and Cold War aesthetics. She is also Co-ordinator of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, based in St Anne’s College, Oxford. She is incoming Research Fellow in the Literature of the Global South at King's College, Cambridge. Dr Nasseh's research project in association with Javett-UP is entitled, 'Collage and Collage-based Practices in 20th and 21st Century South African Art', and an example of previous collage collaboration with artists and exhibition participants can be seen here.

About The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP)

The Javett-UP is a space that enhances unique and exceptional transdisciplinary learning through the arts. We engage diverse publics in exploring the human condition and reimagining our futures. The Javett-UP is a partnership between the University of Pretoria and the Javett Foundation. Both share a firm belief in the value of the arts for society in general and education. It’s a project that is collegiate as it is philanthropic. With one foot firmly rooted in academia, and the other embedded in the public, Javett-UP aims to make the art of Africa accessible, relevant and engaging.

Researching the art of Africa lies at the very heart of the work of the Javett-UP. Javett-UP aims to set new benchmarks in art curation, conservation and education. The fact that the Javett-UP is part of the University of Pretoria’s research, teaching and learning resource means that this is a place not only for enjoying art but for learning about it, too. At the Javett-UP, learning and enjoying are two sides of the same coin. Both are valued, and both are encouraged.

Please visit the Javett-UP website to find out more about the art museum

Please click here to find out more about the TORCH/Javett-UP BRIDGE Fellowship Programme