Charles Villet taught philosophy and ethics at various universities in Johannesburg from 2002 to 2019. He earned his PhD from Monash University in 2018, his thesis is a study of whiteness and the struggle for recognition in post-Apartheid South Africa. His current research falls within the fields of postcolonial, whiteness and heterotopian studies as well as critical theory with a focus on the politics of recognition. He is now based in Düsseldorf (Germany) and is a research fellow with the Philosophy Department at the University of the Free State.