Anthea Garman

Anthea Garman is a professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, where she is also Deputy Head of School responsible for Research and Community Engagement. She teaches writing and editing, long form journalism and multimedia storytelling and supervises postgraduate research projects. She is a member of the Andrew W. Mellon-funded research project Media and Sociality which will run from 2018 to 2021 and will use decolonial theory to examine the complex relationships between South Africa’s changing media environment and its changing political environment. She is the author of Antjie Krog and the Postapartheid Public Sphere: Speaking Poetry to Power (UKZN Press, 2015) and the co-editor of Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation (HSRC Press, 2017).