Adam Haupt

Adam Haupt (19**-) Theatre, music and film critic, researcher and academic.

In 2010 he was awarded a Mandela Mellon Fellowship to work at the W.E.B. du Bois Institute of African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Having taught in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape as well as in the English and Drama departments at the Stellenbosch University, (where he also co-authored a study of arts activities in Stellenbosch, with Temple Hauptfleisch), he became an Associate Professor in the Centre for Film and Media Studies (University of Cape Town). Today he is Professor and Director of the Centre for Film & Media Studies at the University of Cape Town.

He edits the youth culture archive website Staticphlow, which aims to bridge the gap between scholars, artists and activists who are working on aspects of youth culture.

Other activities included freelance criticism and articles for the Mail and Guardian, SL and Y magazines; e-commerce ventures, dabbling in television and video production and experiments in music and spoken word / poetry performance.

Besides his research articles and reviews, he is the author of two books: Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film (HSRC Press, 2012) and Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion (HSRC Press, 2008).

He is co-editor of Neva Again: Hip-Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa with Quentin Williams, Emile Jansen and H. Samy Alim. He co-produced an EP, #IntheKeyofB, for the book project with Bradley Lodewyk and is the author of Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film and Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion.

Haupt is Coordinating Editor of Global Hip Hop Studies with J. Griffith Rollefson and serves on the advisory board for the first Hip Hop Book Series by University of California Press and on the advisory board of CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation.

Om 2021 he becamed the Media Liaison Officer for the the Trilingual Dictionary of Kaaps (TDK), a descriptive corpus project that will develop the first dictionary of the language known as Kaaps.