Rosalind Morris is an award-winning anthropologist and cultural critic, who is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author numerous books and essays, on topics that range from anthropology and critical social theory, to comparative literary analysis, media philosophy and aesthetics, and the question of value. Her major field research has been in South Africa and Southeast Asia. Her most recent book is The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea (with Daniel Leonard, 2017). In addition to her scholarly writings, Morris has collaborated extensively with South African artists, including William Kentridge, with whom she has written two books, Clive van den Berg, Ebrahim Hajee and Songezile Madikida. Her poetry and non-academic writings have appeared in journals like Literary Imagination, The Capilano Review, The New Ohio Review and Carapace. As a filmmaker, Morris has directed and produced works in documentary, narrative and expanded cinematic forms; her film, We are Zama Zama, about undocumented informal miners in South Africa, will be in released in 2021. With Yvette Christiansë, she is also the co-librettist on two operas with the composer Zaid Jabri.
