Ms Natalie Donaldson
Lecturer in Psychology
Psychology I Course Co-ordinator
BSS Honours (Rhodes), PGDHE (Rhodes), MSS (Rhodes)
E-Maill: n.donaldson@ru.ac.za
Phone: +27(0)46 603 7383
Teaching Areas
- Critical Gender Psychology
- Media representation
- Constructions of sexuality
- LGBTIQ Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
Research Interests
- Constructions of sexuality and gender
- Media discourse, representation and audience reception
- Power, identity and discourse around same-sexualities
- Queer Theory and/or LGBTIQ Psychology
- Critical Gender Psychology
Editorials/Popular Media Publications
Donaldson, N. (2011, May 05). ‘Being gay is not the problem’. Daily Dispatch, p. 8.
Conference Presentations
Donaldson, N. (2011). “Like, like it’s hectic, but that's exactly how they are”: Negotiating subject positions in representations of black lesbians on South African television. Paper presented at PsySSA, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Donaldson, N. (2010). Free to be, just not on TV: Lesbian Representation and South African Television. Paper presented at Psychology Department Postgraduate Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Donaldson, N. (2010). Negotiating subject positions of lesbian representation in popular films and television programmes. Poster presented at the LGBT Summer Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Donaldson, N. (2009). Lipstick and glamour: The heterosexualization of lesbian representation in the popular media. Paper presented at the Rhodes University Inter-disciplinary Post-graduate Conference, Grahamstown, South Africa.
