Dr Gay Morris joins Wits as distinguished scholar
BRAAMFONTEIN – Wit’s Vice Chancellor is ecstatic about the new ground the University is breaking with the Drama for Life programme.
Emeritus Associate Professor, Dr Gay Morris will join the Drama for Life programme at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in March.
The programme is part of Wits’ Distinguished Scholars Programme in the Faculty of Humanities.
“We are confident that Wits’ research footprint and its output will be enhanced through the Distinguished Scholars Programme, but we are also hopeful that this programme will contribute more broadly to South Africa’s research goals and expertise. Moreover, this programme will help us develop the next generation of researchers,” said Professor Adam Habib, Wits Vice Chancellor and Principal.
Morris is an Emeritus Associate Professor in the Drama Department at the University of Cape Town, where she was Head of the Department until 2003.
Prior to her retirement, Morris served as the postgraduate programmes convenor for drama.
Her recent research has focused on applied drama and theatre in formal schooling, as well as on the transmission, production, distribution and reception of theatre originating from Xhosa-speaking townships in Cape Town.
Morris will deliver a public lecture on 12 March at 1pm in the Wits Downstairs Theatre titled, Arts education in schools: Does arts education help teachers and learners, or conceal substantive teaching and learning problems?
Drama for Life is a unique, internationally acclaimed postgraduate division of applied drama and theatre studies, drama education and drama therapy studies in the Wits School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand.
