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Lesley Marx
For many years, Lesley Marx taught in the English department at the University of Cape Town (UCT), focusing on American studies, publishing a monograph on novelist John Hawkes in 1997. She has published on South African cinema, comparative US and South African culture and on film adaptation. Her current research interests include the cinemas of Ireland and Scotland and Hollywood during the Great Depression. She chaired the English department at UCT from 1997-2000, was Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities from 2001-02, and, from 2003-04, was the Founding Director of the Centre for Film and Media Studies.