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Secretary: Ms L P Ntombela
Tel: 031 373 2823
Email: lindiwenp@dut.ac.za
Campus: Steve Biko
pa-sam Senior Lecturer: Dr Sam Usadolo
Tel: 031 373 2837
Email: samu@dut.ac.za
Location: S3, L1
Campus: Steve Biko Campus
Qualification(s): PhD
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Bio:Dr Sam Erevbenagie Usadolo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Language and Communication. He supervises across disciplines in the Faculty of Arts and Design, and his research adopts a critical organisational communication perspective to examine issues of workplace outcomes such as job satisfaction, retention and work engagement in both public and non-profit organisations.
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Courses Currently Teaching: Effective Business Communication in Organisations, and Business Communication and Information Literacy.
Research and Innovation focus: Organisational Communication, Health Communication, Participatory Communication, and Legal Interpreting Situations in South African Courtrooms.
  Lecturer: Dr Nontsasa Nako
Tel: 031 373 2830
Email: nontsasan@dut.ac.za
Location: S3 L1
Campus: Steve Biko Campus
Qualification(s): PhD, Binghamton University
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Bio: Dr Nako is a senior lecturer in Media, Language and Communication. Her research focuses on black women as producers of knowledge about their lived realities. She has published book chapters and journal articles on race, gender, sexuality and culture, touching on varied subjects such as women before the TRC, disability, gender and race, and black women in popular culture and the historical archive. Her current project focuses on representation of Black women in South African heritage and commemoration.
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Courses Currently Teaching: English for the arts, communication 1 and business Information & communication literary.
 Veena Senior Lecturer: Dr Veena Partab
Tel: 031-3736732
Email: partabv@dut.ac.za
Location: ABO111, 1st Floor, B Block
Campus: M.L.Sultan
Qualifications: Phd (UKZN), MA (UN), BEd (UNISA), UHDE( UDW) Hons (UDW), BA (UDW)
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Bio: Dr Veena Partab is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Language and Communication. She lectures in the English and Communication Programme.
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Courses Currently Teaching: Interpersonal Communication and The Self
                                                              English for the Arts
                                                              Communication 1
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Research and Innovation: Orality-Literacy Studies, Oral History.
Senior Lecturer: Dr Ernestina Maleshoane Rapeane-Mathonsi
Tel: 031 373 2823
Location: S3, L1
Campus: Steve Biko Campus
Qualification(s): PhD (University of Cape Town)
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Bio: Maleshoane Rapeane-Mathonsi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Language and Communication. She is a sociolinguist whose research interests include work on formal linguistics, linguistic landscape of southern African cities, and language differentiation and gender. She supervises postgraduate students in her department and sister departments in the Faculty of Arts and Design. She has co-authored a book, and published articles on language and orality in peer-reviewed journals. In addition, she is an experienced translator.

Course Currently Teaching: English for the Arts

Research and Innovation Focus: Language differentiation and gender, socio-onomastics, critical discourse analysis, orality, and lexicology.
  Lecturer: Dr Ursula Vooght
Tel: 031 373 2821
Email: ursulas@dut.ac.za
Location: AB0111H
Campus: M L Sultan
Qualification(s):PhD Media and Cultural Studies (UKZN), Master of Arts in Cultural and Critical Studies (Lond), BA (Hons) English Literature (Lond), Bachelor of Arts (UNP, now UKZN)
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Bio: Dr Ursula Vooght is a Lecturer in the Programme of English and Communication. She lectures in the Faculty of Arts and has supervised BA Hons (Film) students at AFDA, Durban. Her primary research interest is in the adaptation of texts. This long-standing interest has been pursued through her PhD and published research, and her own creative projects, which include graphic novel and screenplay adaptations. Prior to entering academia, she worked for more than a decade in Corporate Communications.
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Courses Currently Teaching: Business Communication and Information Literacy, Communication 1, English for the Arts, Interpersonal Communication and the Self
Research and Innovation focus: Adaptation Studies; Cultural Studies; Communication Studies, Literary Studies
 Jade Lecturer: Dr Jade Smith
Tel: 031 373 2825
Email: JadeS1@dut.ac.za
Location: S3 L1
Campus: Steve Biko Campus
Qualification(s): PhD, MA, BA Hons, BA (Rhodes) 
Bio: Dr Jade Smith is a lecturer in the English & Communication Programme. She lectures across disciplines in the Faculty of Arts and Design, and has published internationally and locally about imagined communities of readership in newspapers. Her research has broadened into multimodality, using systemic functional linguistic frameworks and critical discourse analysis to investigate the representations of South Africans in the words and images of post-apartheid children’s picture books.
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Courses Currently Teaching: Communication Skills 1 and 2
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Research and Innovation Focus: Systemic functional linguistics (appraisal, visual analysis); multimodality; critical discourse analysis; South African print media and children’s literature.