Pamela Catherine Nichols is currently the Director of Wits Writing Centre (WWC) and the Head of Teaching and Learning at Wits University. She has degrees from Sussex, London, and New York, and before she came to South Africa was primarily interested in Orientalism, through the guidance of Edward Said and after her experiences in the early 80s at the American University of Beirut. The WWC was one of the first writing centers in South Africa and was informed greatly by her experiences of teaching writing at NYU and working with some wonderful writing teachers.