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Stefanie Van de Peer
Stefanie Van de Peer graduated in English and Dutch Studies at the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 2003, where she specialized in the Afrikaans poetry of Wilma Stockenström. She moved to Newcastle upon Tyne to pursue a Masters degree in Contemporary Film and Literature, with a dissertation on Nigerian Women’s literature, focusing on alternative forms of feminisms in sub-Sahara Africa. She came to Stirling in 2007 for doctoral research under the supervision of Professor David Murphy in documentary film-making by North African women. She has published on the cinemas from the Maghreb and Egypt and is preparing an edited volume on 'Art and Trauma' in Africa. She is one of the directors of the ‘Africa in Motion’ film festival in Edinburgh and has been on the jury of other Arab and African film festivals.