Alexandra Dodd has contributed texts to numerous books, art catalogues, monographs, and projects that bring together visual, literary, and archival cultures—particularly in ‘post’-colonial, ‘post’-Apartheid, and ‘post’-traumatic contexts. These include The Interpreters: South Africa’s new non-fiction (Soutie Press, 2025) and An Anthology of Non-Conformism: Rebel Wom!n, Words, Ways, and Wonders (DIO Press, 2024). She is the author of David Goldblatt: The Last Interview (Steidl, 2019). She is the editor of The Distance Within (Steidl, 2025) and a co-editor of Radical Solidarity: A Reader (Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, 2023) and Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa (UCT Press, 2016), amongst others. As a campaigner with Plant Based Treaty, she is committed to transforming the world’s food system and giving voice to the intersections between social-, environmental-,and animal-justice struggles. She has participated in numerous protest-action campaigns, like the ongoing global movement to Free Palestine, and actions against seismic blasting off of South Africa’s Wild and West Coasts (2021) and against South Africa’s secret nuclear deal with Russia (2016). She holds an Honours in Journalism from Rhodes University, a Masters in Literature (Creative Writing) from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and a PhD in Literature from the University of Cape Town.
