Angelo Fick has been the Director of Research at the Auwal Socio-economic Research Institute (ASRI) since June 2018.
Before joining ASRI, Fick spent nearly half a decade as a resident current affairs and news analyst in the broadcast sector in South Africa. Before that, he spent twenty years teaching and researching across a variety of disciplines in the Humanities and Applied Sciences in universities in South Africa and Europe. One of these posts was a UNESCO fellowship in the Netherlands Research School for Women’s Studies at Utrecht University.
His research is informed by his decades-long immersion in critical ‘race’ theory, feminism, colonial discourse theory, and post-structuralism. He used to write widely on post-millennial post-apartheid South Africa’s political economy, and remains interested in broader issues of justice, freedom, and equality. He has supervised graduate work on the representation of women politicians in South African media, the figuration of subjectivity in contemporary critical theory, work on governmental power, and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Angelo Fick’s work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and English in Africa. He lives in Johannesburg.
