Helene Strauss is a professor in the Department of English at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her publications include the books Wayward Feeling: Audio-visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa (U of Toronto P) and Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access (Routledge; co-edited with Jessie Forsyth and Sarah Olutola), as well as co-edited special issues of the journals Interventions, Critical Arts, and Studies in Social Justice.