Nicky Falkof

Nicky Falkof is a writer and academic based in Johannesburg. She is a professor of Media Studies at Wits University, where she currently holds the DST-NRF SARChl Chair in Critical Diversity Studies and heads up the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies. Her research is primarily concerned with race and anxiety in South Africa, with a specific interest in the forms, mythologies and consequences of white fear. Nicky has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities and Cultural Studies from the London Consortium, part of Birkbeck College, University of London. The Devil Made Me Do It is her fourth book.