Dr Toussaint Nothias is a lecturer in the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. His research explores a variety of issues related to representations of Africa, media and globalization. His work has appeared in Journalism Studies; Communication, Culture, Critique; African Journalism Studies; Visual Communication; and in the edited bookAfrica’s Media Image in the 21st Century.
He holds a PhD from the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, was a visiting doctoral researcher at the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, and worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford for the “Media, Conflict and Democratisation” project (www.mecodem.eu). In spring 2017 he organized the workshop “African Media Studies in the Digital Age” at Stanford University. He is currently a co-investigator of the British Academy / Leverhulme funded research project “Contested Discourses of Africa Rising: the struggle for control of the image of the foreign ‘partner’”.