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Professor Anthea Garman

Professor
a.garman@ru.ac.za
046 603 7125

Qualifications:
BA (Wits), BAHons (UKZN), MA (UKZN), PhD (Wits)

 

Address

Room 231 Africa Media Matrix

Upper Prince Alfred Street

Makhanda

 

Postal address

School of Journalism and Media Studies,

Rhodes University, PO Box 94,

Makhanda 6140. Tel: 046 603 7100/25

 

Industry experience

Rand Daily Mail (1981), Cape Times (1982), Sunday Times (1983), African Enterprise (1983-1987), The Witness (1988-1996)

 
Courses

JMS1: Introduction to Media Studies

JMS3: Academic Writing Enhancement

JMS4: Writing and Editing

Hons and MA: Academic Writing

 

Professional involvement

Member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, member of the International Communication Association, member of the International Association of Literary Journalism Studies, member of the SA Communications Association, member of the SA National Editors’ Forum.

 

Research areas

Talking and listening in the public sphere

Citizenship and the media

Journalism practice

Creative nonfiction writing

Creativity and the imagination

 

Research projects

The Body in the Public Sphere

Media, Sociality and Digitality (funded by the Mellon Foundation)

 Licence to Talk (funded by the National Research Foundation)




2023. Della Togna, M, Garman, A, Burton, S, Jacobs, J, Kleyn, L, Sithole, H. Chapter 4. Communication. South Africa Covid-19 Report [Second edition]. DPME (Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation), GTAC (Governing Technical Advisory Centre) & NRF (National Research Foundation), Pretoria.

2023. Adjin-Tettey, TD and Garman, A. Lurking as a mode of listening in social media: Motivations-based typologies, Digital Transformation and Society, https://doi.org/10.1108/DTS-07-2022-0028                                                        

2023. “The Public Sphere and Journalism.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.880

2023. “Guerrillas and Combative Mothers: Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa, by Siphokazi Magadla. Book review for African Journal of Conflict Resolution. 23(1). https://www.accord.org.za/ajcr-issues/guerrillas-and-combative-mothers-women-and-the-armed-struggle-in-south-africa/

2022. “Deeper and deeper and deeper’: narrative nonfiction and the interiority of the other in South Africa. Chapter for the Routledge Companion to World Literary Journalism edited by John Bak and William Reynolds: 118-128.

2022.“Not clowns but capable agents: Tapping into subaltern theory to centralise the marginalised” (with Mvuzo Ponono) in Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives, edited by Ylva Rodny Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer and Mvuzo Ponono. Pretoria: UNISA: 149-162.

2022. “The Ethics of Engagement: Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa, by Herman Wasserman. Book review for Critical Arts. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/02560046.2022.2078384?needAccess=true

2021. Adjin-Tettey, T.D. and Garman, A. Solutions Journalism as a Tool to Erode Polarisation in the Media and Society, African Journalism Studies, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23743670.2021.1972530

2020. “Anger, pain and the body in the South African public sphere.” Chapter for Babl Unbound: Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life edited by Carolyn Hamilton and Lesley Cowling. Johannesburg: Wits University Press: 239-259. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.18772/22020055898 or http://witspress.co.za/catalogue/babel-unbound/

2020. “Truth-Telling in the Unsettling Present.” Book review of Hedley Twidle, Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa. Literary Journalism Studies 12(1): 201-203. https://ialjs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20-LJS-v12n1_BkRev_Twidle.pdf

ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anthea_Garman

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CiYeNyMAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Books

Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation edited by Anthea Garman and Herman Wasserman. Cape Town: HSRC Press. https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/media-and-citizenship

 

Antjie Krog and the Postapartheid Public Sphere: Speaking Poetry to Power. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.

 

Creative outputs

2023. “Time Piece.” Multilingual Margins 10(1): 27-35. https://epubs.ac.za/index.php/mm/article/view/2170

2023. “Lines Land Slant” (with Gillian Rennie) in Notes from the Body edited by Duncan Brown, Kobus Moolman and Nkosinathi Sithole. UKZN Press: 156-170.

2020. “When I get out I will order a repeat Supermoon.” Poetry in McGregor Poetry Festival 2020 Anthology, edited by Patricia Schonstein. Cape Town: African Sun Press, 62 and 161.