Annie Gagiano has taught literature in the English Department of the University of Stellenbosch since 1970, where she is at present a professor emeritus and research associate. Her teaching has focused particularly on African and postcolonial literature, Shakespeare and poetry. Her numerous articles have appeared in academic journals and in edited collections of essays in South Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S.A. Gagiano's first book, Achebe, Head, Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa (2000), was published in the United States and Britain by Lynne Rienner. At a more popular level she writes the regular column, The African Library on classic and contemporary African texts for the electronic magazine LitNet.
