Sarah Nuttall is a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand) in Johannesburg.

Dr. Nuttall, a South African Rhodes Scholar, obtained her D.Phil at Oxford in 1994 and lectured in English at the University of Stellenbosch from 1997 to 2001. She was a Visiting Professor at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria, from March to June 2000, a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, from January to March 2001, and a Visiting Professor in English and African American Studies at Yale University from September to December 2003. She is co-editor of: Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia (Routledge, 1996); Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa (OUP, 1998); and Senses of Culture: South African Culture Studies (OUP, 2000), editor of Beauty and Ugliness: African and Diaspora Aesthetics (2004) and author of a forthcoming volume of essays on South African Literatures.