Walters is a postdoctoral fellow at UWC’s Centre for Humanities Research, contributing to the SA-UK Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture & Technics. She recently received a PhD for her thesis, “From Cultural Work to Culture Industry: Affect, Labour and the Remaking of South Africa’s Arts Sector”, completed at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her ongoing work attends to how culture and techniques in/of labour, race and gender profoundly influence historical, structural and psychosocial dynamics in arts and culture worlds in southern Africa, and elsewhere.
Dr Lee Walters
Research fellow in Culture, Labour & Technics — Centre for Humanities Research, UWC
Moderator — Rise & Resist. In-Conversation (Industry Event, 2025)