Anthea Garman, Ph.D.

Anthea Garman teaches writing and editing, long-form journalism, multimedia storytelling and academic writing in the School of Journalism and Media Studies. At present she leads a research project called “Licence to Talk” (funded by the NRF 2019 to 2021) which seeks to ascertain the shifts and ruptures in what is said and what is sayable in the South African public sphere at this present moment. The study seeks to assess whether listening theory offers new practices for those conducting public debates, discussions and engagements, whether they be face to face encounters, via the media or on social media. She is PI of the School’s Mellon-funded research project (2018 to 2012) called Media and Sociality which uses coloniality theory to examine highly digitised post-colonial spaces and their possibilities for social connection. She is co-editor (with Herman Wasserman) of Media and Citizenship in South Africa: Between Marginalisation and Participation (HSRC Press) and Antjie Krog and the Postapartheid South African Public Sphere: Speaking Poetry to Power (UKZN). A comprehensive list of her work can be found at https://rhodes-za.academia.edu/AntheaGarman