Biography

Sanjin Muftić is a Bosnian-born Canadian digital scholar and film editor based in Cape Town. He completed his theatre PhD at UCT focusing on the Planetary, Bricolage and Theatrical Images and is currently working for UCT Libraries as a Digital Scholarship Specialist. His tasks include implementing and maintaining the university digital collections site (Omeka S), developing advocacy towards practicing research data management, and helping researchers curate and showcase their digital scholarship projects and collections. He has presented at international conferences of the Federation for Theatre Research, the Society for Intermedial Studies, CREATIVATE Digital Arts Festival, Open Repositories and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. His written contributions include articles in the South African Theatre Journal, Research in Drama Education, Resources for African Indigenous Languages and chapters in Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies (ed Judith Rudakoff) and Cape of Flows: Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa (ed Mark Fleishman). He has also directed and designed videography for numerous theatrical productions in South Africa, while also having edited two feature films including Barakat.