Alexandra Dodd holds a Master of Arts from Concordia University in Montreal and a PhD in Literature from the University of Cape Town. She has contributed texts to numerous art books, and is the author of David Goldblatt: The Last Interview (Steidl, 2019). She has also edited several novels and non-fiction books, and is the co-editor of Radical Solidarity: A Reader (Zeitz MOCAA, 2023), Home Is Where the Art Is: Art Owned and Made by the People of Cape Town (Zeitz MOCAA, 2022) and Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa (UCT Press, 2016). She specialises in genre-bending texts with an essayistic, social-documentary heft, exploring themes like embodiment, memoir, social spectres, the retrieval of lost histories and interspecies subjectivity. She is also a futurist, committed to transforming the world’s food system and giving voice to the intersections between social, environmental and animal-justice struggles.
