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Dr Hugh Ellis

Head of Department
Senior Lecturer


Phone : +264 61 207 2893
hellis@nust.na

Qualification

B.Journ. (Rhodes)
M.A. Journ. & Media Studies (Rhodes),
Ph.D. (media studies) (Wits)


Research focus areas/interests
Photojournalism, documentary photography, democratic listening, visual communication, web design trends, community and activist media, fashion in media, performance poetry, women’s poetry

Teaching
Introduction to photography; print design, editing and production; journalistic writing; digital media production; digital literacies; writing for multimedia

Selected Publications: 

Ellis, H. (2020). Why don’t you let me flow in my space?’: Spoken Word Poetry as a Challenge to Patriarchy and Gender-Based Violence in Namibia. Matatu 50.2 (2020): 444-455. https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/50/2/article-p444_11.xml

Ellis, H. (2018) Owning the image: photography as a means of empowerment in contemporary Namibia (Doctoral dissertation, Wits University). https://hdl.handle.net/10539/27214

Ellis, H. and Stevenson, D. (2018) Who speaks at Spoken Word? In Krishnamurthy, S., & Vale, H. (Eds.). (2018). Writing Namibia: literature in transition. University of Namibia Press. https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/writing-namibia-literature-in-transition

Ellis, H. (2008). Conceptualisations of 'the Community' and 'community Knowledge' Among Community Radio Volunteers in Katutura, Namibia (Masters dissertation, Rhodes University). https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/145055161.pdf

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