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PSA Membership is open to students, academics and anyone with a scholarly interest in postcolonial topics from any part of the world. 
 

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LIST OF CURRENT MEMBERS

 

Bashir Abu-Manneh

 

Ekua Aghapostcolonial literary studies and cinema in Francophone West Africa.  I am writing my doctoral thesis on the literary and film works of the late Ousmane Sembène.  


Rehana Ahmed


Nath Aldalala’a


Candice Allmark Kent, First Nations and Aboriginal literatures; representations of whiteness in the literatures of peoples of colour; literature as resistance; subaltern studies and the ethics of postcolonial enquiry.    

Amal Mohammed Al-Malki, Ph.D., is Assistant Teaching Professor of English. She teaches courses in writing composition, postcolonial literature, theories of translation and world English. Her research interests include the negotiation of identity between the Muslim world and the west, media representations of Arab women and postcolonial literature. She has published articles in numerous journals including Language and Society and Sustaining Excellence in Communicating across the Curriculum: Cross-Institutional Experiences and Best Practices. Additionally, she is a member of the Qatar National Competiveness Council. She currently holds a two-year grant from the Qatar National Research Fund to study representations of Arab women in the Arabic press. Al-Malki holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of London where she also earned a master's degree in English-Arabic applied linguistics and translation. She also holds a bachelor's degree in English and education from Qatar University. http://qatar.cmu.edu/directory/view/14


Letizia Alterno


Nivin El Asdoudi
, magical realism, Egyptian-Nubian literature, South African Literature, Nigerian Literature, German Colonial history.   


Derek Attridge
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South African literature; theories of alterity.


Georgia Axiotou


Clare Barker
, representations of disability in postcolonial literatures; disability studies. Comparative postcolonial literary studies; indigenous literature. Literature and children; children’s literature.


Maysam Behravesh
 I am an MA student of British Studies in the Faculty of World Studies (FWS), University of Tehran, Iran. My research interests centre broadly on Middle Eastern Studies, particularly Iran-West politico-cultural relations, as well as colonial and post-colonial theories and debates, not least those focusing on the themes of the British Empire, identity and otherisation. Accordingly, the subject of my MA thesis is “Iranian-British Relations since the Presidency of Mohammad Khatami in 1997”.


Anna Bernard


April Biccum, global citizenship, development, the politics of empire, postcolonial international relations, globalisation, popular culture and global governance.    


Emma Bird
, I am in my first year of my PhD at Exeter University.  My research examines Indian poetry in English written during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly considering how the expanding city was represented.  Although focusing on poetry, the wider interests which inform my research include: postcolonial theory, and its relationship to discourses of development studies and postmodern geography; globalization theory; disability studies; Adorno’s negative dialectics.


Ole Birk Laursen, a PhD student in the English Department at The Open University.  He is currently doing research on contemporary black and Asian British women’s life writing and autobiography.  


Liesbeth De Bleeker
, Francophone literatures, esp. Caribbean; translation studies; representation of space; narratology; discourse analysis. 

  

Elleke Boehmer, born of Netherlands parents in Durban, South Africa in 1961, and was educated in South Africa, Canada, and Britain.  To date she has published three widely praised novels, Screens again the Sky (short-listed David Higham Prize, 1990), An Immaculate Figure (1993) and Bloodlines (short-listed Sanlam Prize, 2000), as well as short stories and memoir sketches, many of which are set in Africa.  Internationally known for her research in international writing and postcolonial theory, she is the author of the world best-seller Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995, 2005), the monographs Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920 (2002) and Stories of Women (2005), and of the acclaimed edition of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys (2004).  Elleke Boehmer is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford.  Her study of Nelson Mandela appears this year, concurrently with Nile Baby, to coincide with his 90th Birthday in July. 


Stella Borg Barethet
, African, Australian, and Maltese writing.


Clare Brandabur


Sarah Brophy, British literature and culture since 1945, especially Black British and women’s writing; gender and sexuality; auto/biography studies; health, illness, reproduction, and embodiment.

Dr Angela Brüning
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Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean, especially writing from the 1950s to the present; current focus on Caribbean migrant literature; emphasis on the comparative perspective. 


Katherine Burkitt
, postcolonial literature and form, particularly the verse-novel, black British writing, postcolonial poetry.  


Lorna Burns
, Caribbean literature and postcolonial studies, exploring, in particular, the contemporary significance of Caribbean-European literary and theoretical exchange. Specific areas of interest include creolization theory, Wilson Harris, Édouard Glissant, the influence of Surrealism on Caribbean literature, and the relationship between contemporary postcolonial theory and ‘post-continental’ philosophy, particularly that of Gilles Deleuze.    


Eleanor Byrne
, Senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Working on intersections between postcolonial theory and post-structuralism. Interests include the work of Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, postcolonial futures and teletechnology. Publications include Deconstructing Disney (2000) and Homi K. Bhabha (2008). Currently working on Post-literature, Tele, Techne, Text.  


Florence Cabaret
, Indian literature in English


Marco Calea


Chris Campbell


Alberto Fernandez Carbajal
is a PhD candidate at the School of English, University of Leeds, where he works under the supervision of Dr John McLeod. His thesis explores E. M. Forster’s legacies in postcolonial writing, and examines in particular the work of Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, J. G. Farrell, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith.


Anthony Carrigan
, postcolonial island literatures; postcolonial ecology and environmental criticism; tourism; globalisation and Neoliberalism; social and natural disasters; interdisciplinarity.


Sumit Chakrabarti, wrote his thesis on the location of Third-World intellectuals in the First-World academia with major focus on Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha.. His research interests include Postcolonial Theory, Culture Studies and Postmodernism.


Dr Claire Chambers, a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University.  Her main research interests are contemporary South Asian literature written in English and literary representations of British Muslims.  She has published widely in such journals as Moving Worlds, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Postcolonial Text and Journal of Postcolonial Writing.  


Madeline Clements
, I am interested in International fiction in English, and in particular in the recent novels of Pakistani/South Asian Muslim authors. From September 2009 I will begin work with Dr. Peter Morey at the University of East London on my PhD project 'Orienting Muslims: Mapping Global Spheres of Affiliation and Affinity in Contemporary South Asian Fiction'.


Bryson Clevenger
,History of ideas, libraries, general history.  


Fatmatta Cole-Taqi, Post-colonialism and Women, Post-colonial Literature and Women Writers, Religion and Status, and Feminism, Gender, Women, African and Black Related Issues.  My research focus and interests are: Women in Islamic Societies, and Culture and Tradition in the African Woman’s Psyche.     

Brenda Cooper, Migration and Diaspora in recent fiction by African Writers, especially as manifested in their use of Genre. My key, current question is: What is the knowledge that comes bonded with Genre choices? I am devising what I call a Diasporic, Feminist Fantastic.

Íde Corley, Lecturer in English at NUI, Maynooth. Pan-Africanism, Anglophone African fiction, the slave narrative, critical theory (especially post-structuralism, psychoanalysis and queer Theory).   


Marianne Corrigan, PhD student at Keele University. My principal areas of interest include the work of Salman Rushdie; self and identity in postcolonial Indian literature; connections between postmodernism, post-structuralism and postcolonialism; magic realism.


Francesca Counihanmodern francophone women’s writing (Assia Djebar among others).


Helen Cousins
African women’s literature; Black diaspora literature; Black feminism particularly relating to maternity; literature and society.


JosAnn Cutajar
, feminist postcolonial studies, postcolonial pedagogy with special interest on the teaching of sociological issues. 


Emily Davis
 


Sharae Deckard
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a Lecturer in New Literatures in English at UCD.  Her research interests include paradise myth, religion and globalization: Indian Ocean literatures and slave-trade; postcolonial literature and the environment; and theories of peripheral modernity in global literary studies.  


Stephanie Decouvelaere
, migration in Anglophone Caribbean literature and North African literature in French; globalisation; Francophone Caribbean literature; black British literature.


Cristina Delgado Garcia


Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo
, African literature, especially Zimbabwean; African cinema.


Monica Domeniconi
, diaspora, Irish fiction, Irish-American hyphenated identity in fiction and cinema.

 

Alison Donnell 


Georgina Downie


Jane Dowson, Reader in 20th Century Literature. I am interested in: literatures of migration and diaspora; representations of contemporary Britain; poetry by women.

 

Karen D’Souza, lecturer in colonial literature, diaspora and post 9/11 fiction. Current research interests in South Asian and Arab women’s writing, and postcolonial feminism.

 

Carly Dunn, a doctoral student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, interests included Irish literature and history, Victorian and Empire studies, postcolonialism, and feminism.   


Emilia Maria Duran Almarza
  


Sam Durrant
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African, Caribbean and US literature; critical theory. Both my first monograph Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M Coetzee, Wilson Harris and Toni Morrison (SUNY, 2004), and my current book project, Postapartheid Literature: Mourning and the Reinvention of Community (Routledge, 2010) focus on the problems involved in memorialising the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue to haunt our postcolonial era. My next project will explore the relationship between empire and (modern) epic, from Melville and Conrad to Derek Walcott, Charles Johnson and Cormac McCarthy.


Kai Easton
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colonial and postcolonial studies; South African literature (the Cape, Wicomb, Coetzee); gender and the cultures of travel; Indian Ocean diasporas; intertextuality; theories of fiction and history.


Ziad Elmarsafy
, Modern and Contemporary Literature of the Middle East and North Africa (Arabic, French, English); early Orientalisms; literature and religion.

 

David Farrier  is lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester, with a particular interest in asylum and refugee issues, and in new formations and applications of postcolonial studies.  He is the author of Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville, and London (Routledge), and Before the Law: Postcolonial Studies in the Asylum Age is forthcoming (Liverpool UP).


Richard Fisk,  I am currently researching representations of the Indian landscape in post-Independence literature within a postcolonial/ecocritical framework.

  

Dr Eóin Flannery, is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford Brookes University.  His books include: Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture  (2006); Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on imperialism, literature and historiography (2007); Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia (2009); Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture (2009); and This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann (2009). He has also edited a special Irish issue of the journal Postcolonial Text (2007). 


Bobby Flora-Bhambra
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West African fiction and discourse analysis.   It aims to analyse this postcolonial literature through the lense(s) of discourse analysis.  I am also interested in gender studies and power relations in narratives and how these are revealed through Critical Discourse Analysis.


Ross Forman
colonial and postcolonial studies; Anglophone literature in Asia; literature of the diaspora; globalization and literature. 


Charles Forsdick
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travel writing and exoticism; the Francophone Caribbean (especially Haiti); Francophone postcolonial studies; French-language dimensions of postcolonial theory; reception of postcolonialism in the French-speaking world; comparative literature/World Literature.


Khaled Ghazel


Ipshita Ghose


Rachael Gilmour
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Rachael Gilmour’s research focuses primarily upon issues of language, translation, and linguistic encounter in colonial and postcolonial contexts – from 18th-and 19th-century South Africa, to contemporary multilingual Britain.  Her book Grammars of Colonialism (Palgrave, 2006) is a study of the complex relationship between colonialism and linguistic ideas in South Africa, focused upon 19th-century European representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu.  Her current project addresses the figure of the interlingual interpreter in colonial and postcolonial literatures from 1800 to the present day; she is also co-editing a volume on the end of empire and the English novel with Bill Schwarz.       


Dorota Goluch
, I am interested in Postcolonial Translation and translating postcolonial literature.  In my research, I have been applying tools from the culturally-oriented Translation Studies to critical readings of postcolonial and Black British works and their Polish translations  (e.g. Ch. Achebe’s, V.S. Naipaul’s, Z. Smith’s).  I have also written a commentary on the process of translating Selvon’s “The Lonely Londoners” into Polish (I am now completing the translation and hope to publish it).   


James Graham
, South
African & Zimbabwean fiction, especially concerning land & nationalism; postcolonial cities; postcolonial ecocriticism; black British literature. 


Dave Gunning
  


Joel Gwynne
, Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests lie in the fields of modernism and contemporary literature, especially in the context of postcolonialism.

   

Devi Hardeen  


Louise Hardwick
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Francophone Postcolonial Studies.      


Nick Harrison
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Literature in French, especially of/about North Africa; comparative literature, film, literary theory; censorship, aesthetics, colonial/postcolonial education, cultural memory, the Algerian war; Assia Djebar, Albert Memmi.   


Deana Heath
, South Asian and comparative colonial history, focusing on obscenity and censorship, modernity and governmentality, communalism and violence, and Indian cinema. 


Claire Hennequet
, poetry and national identity (Whitman, Marti, Césaire). Translation.

  

Caroline Herbert              

Isabelle Hesse 

Kate Highman


Eri Hitotsuyanagi-Kobayashi
, o
btained her PhD degree from Ochanomizu University (Tokyo) in 2005, where she now teaches English as a lecturer.  The title of her PhD dissertation is Women and Mimicry:  A Postcolonial Reading of Jean Rhys’s Five Novels.  She has also translated several English articles on postcolonial criticism, feminism, or contemporary novels into Japanese.  Her academic interests include postcolonial theories, feminism, and contemporary literatures written in English.


Sandra Hobbs
 


Christina Horvath
, contemporary French fiction, Francophone postcolonial studies / The ‘urban novel’ genre and its development in contemporary French and Francophone fiction / The city and the suburbs in contemporary literature, film and art / Representations of Paris and its suburbs by writers of immigrant descent / Migration and new identities in the Francophone world / Writing and publishing in French in the era of globalization; processes of canonization and literary legitimation in the French literary field.

 

Kate Houlden   


James House


Anita Howarth

C. Lyn Innes
 


Nikolai Jeffs

Stephanie Jones
, I work on literary and legal narratives of the Indian Ocean, and more broadly in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature.  I have worked on East African literatures, literatures of the South Asian diaspora and postcolonial theory.  I am also interested in Australian literatures.    


Sbiri Kamal
, postcolonial and ethnic literary studies, mainly North African writing in English.  


Aroosa Kanwal
, I am currently in the first year of my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Lindsey Moore at Lancaster University. My PhD study focuses on the treatment of homeland and native characters in the works of Pakistani expatriate and British Asian writers. The research interests include: diasporas, expatriate writings, questions of migration, identity and resistance in postcolonial literatures, in particular of South Asia.   
 

 

Cherki Karkaba 


Michelle Kelly
  


Michelle Keown


Kath Kerr-Koch
, Indian and African Women’s Writing, romanticism, Critical Theory  

 

Karolina Kos

 

Mohammad Reza Kiani, As a Ph D student of International Relations, I am interested in the postcolonial theories and their application to the key events which are taking place nowadays in the international community and which determine the general direction of world politics. I believe joining PSA conveniently paves the way for more specialized research about the issues of international interest, so that I can be informed, via regular contact with you, of the conferences and events held in this regard all over the globe. My specific areas of study are post-colonial and international relations Theories, new-colonialism, otherisation and globalisation in the Post-colonial world.


Peter Kilroy
, colonial discourse/postcolonial theory, technologies of inscription, history and theory of anthropology.  

 

Dr Gerri Kimber20th century New Zealand literature, in particular Katherine Mansfield and C. K. Stead. I am an on-going contributor for the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES), specialising in postcolonial literature.


Oulagambal Kistnareddy (Ashwiny)
my research interests are in the fild of Postcolonial (Francophone)studies of the Indian Ocean, with a special focus on Mauritian literature by women. I am particularly interested in the notion of hybridity, language, culture and madness in relation to postcolonial theories.  


Wendy Knepper, Caribbean Literature, Migrant and Diasporic Fiction, Literature of the Americas, Postcolonial Theory, Gender Studies and Queer Theory, Film Studies, Performance Theory, Music and Literature, Globalisation.


Dorota Kolodziejczyk
, Theory of the novel, postcolonial studies and comparative literature, translation (theory and practice), contemporary fiction in a comparative perspective, Eastern European fiction and film.


Patricia Krus
   


Karima Laachir
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a lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies in SOAS.  Her research interests include Comparative Postcolonial Literature, Arabophone and Francophone Literature in North Africa, Diaspora cultural production with a particular focus on France and the “Beur”, Muslims in Europe, and Arab Popular Cultures.           


Yvonne Lai

David Lambert
, David Lambert is a Reader in Historical Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.  His principal research interests are in cultural and historical geography, with a particular interest in Whiteness, empire and slavery.  He is the author of White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition (CUP, 2005) and Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century (CUP, 2006).  He co-convenes Royal Holloway’s Postcolonial Research Group. 


Linda Lang-Peralta
, Caribbean and African literature.

 

Sophie Lavin

 

Neil Lazarus


Muiris O. Laoire
, language endangerment, language revitalization in postcolonial contexts.


Bénédicte Ledent
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I teach Caribbean Literature and English at the University of Liège (Belgium).  In addition to articles on contemporary fiction, my publications include Caryl Phillips (Manchester UP, 2002) and several volumes of edited essays.  My main research interests include Caribbean and ‘Black British’ fiction, as well as the writing of the African Diaspora in general.   


Richard Lee


Stephen Levin, My main geographic areas of focus are contemporary South Asia and Britain, with particular attention to literary representations of migration and diasporic ”cultural imaginaries.”  My recent research focuses on conceptions of leisure travel and psychoanalytic approaches to race, culture, and nation.

Dagmara Lewinska 

Timwa Lipenga 

Lucienne Loh, Postcolonial Cultural Studies, particularly intersections between 20th/21st century British Culture and Literature and ex-colonies.  Urban/rural divide, nationalism, 20th/21st  century British Literature.        


Adnan Mahmutovic, I am finishing my PhD on the topic of authenticity and community in works by Rushdie, Ondaatje, and Okri. I have published articles on Coleridge, Ondaatje, Rushdie, Von Trier, and Tabish Khair. I am also a fiction writer (Refugee, Illegitimate, Thinner than a Hair).   


Shiera Malik, postcolonial theory, international relations. 


Lestari Manggong, I am currently working on a thesis which analyses the issue of negotiating identity in the works of Chinese American women authors (Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston). I am also currently gathering materials for my projects; a book on an introduction to postcolonial studies for Indonesian readers, and a research on colonial literatures of the Dutch East Indies (Raden Adjeng Kartini’s letters and Eduard Douwes Dekker’s Max Havelaar). 

Birgit Mara Kaiser
, literatures of the 18th to 20th century, the intersection between literature and philosophy, and literature’s contribution to the production of knowledge.  Currently, she applies these broader concerns to postcolonial writings, focusing on 20th century Francophone Maghrebian literature and philosophy, and their concern for difference, relation, and a new use of the French language.  Her research is indebted to the works of Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. 


Milena Marinkova

 

Chris Marsh, title of my proposed thesis is:  ‘Rabindra-Radicalism:  Re-reading Rabindranath Tagore for the Twenty-first Century’.  The aim of my research is to re-read and interpret selected texts by Rabindranath Tagore, written in English or in translation, to examine their reception in the West, and then to consider the future role and function of those writings in a global context.   


Katy Massey
, is a final-year PhD student at Newcastle University.  She is researching literature which takes racial mixing at its subject and is particularly interested in how critical race studies and postcolonial theory relate to the theme of ambiguous racial identities.


John Masterson
, contemporary Anglophone African Writing, Foucauldian thought and the Rwandan genocide, JM Coetzee and writings on the ‘War on Terror’. My thesis considered the work of Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah alongside that of Michel Foucault.  I have chapters in ‘Crossing Places: New Research in African Studies’ (2007) and ‘Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image’ (forthcoming).  I am also preparing articles on reading Coetzee’s ‘The Vietnam Project’ in light of the Abu Ghraib scandal and Dave Eggers’ ‘What is the What’ (2006).    


Karim Mattar, DPhil candidate in English, Oxford.  Contemporary Anglophone, literature and globalization, global politics, critical theory (esp Marxism), translation.    


Christine Matzke
, African theatre and performance, Anglophone African literature, postcolonial crime fiction, African diasporas, Horn of Africa.


Pamela McCallum
, globalization, contemporary British writers, literary theory.  

 

Lyn McCredden, poetry, Australian indigenous literature, post-colonialism and the sacred.


Claire McGrail-Johnston, doctoral student at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.  Research interests: The Modern Irish novel and Postcolonial Gothic.  I’m exploring acts of reading, writing and memory as a dialectic of Irigarayan ‘Approaching’, and the novel as a Derridean ‘Haptology of the Heart’. 


John McLeod, My research interests cover three main areas: migrant and diasporic fictions of the UK and the transformations of Britishness that have ensued; literatures of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora, especially the work of VS Naipaul, Derek Walcott and Caryl Phillips; and critical theories of the postcolonial.  I’m generally interested in the full range of postcolonial literatures, especially literary fiction, and at Leeds I teach texts from across all areas of the Commonwealth.


Filippo Menozzi, postcolonial theory, post-structuralism, visual narrative.  


Melanie Mettler
is currently writing her PhD thesis on “Cosmopolitanism, Belonging and the Family: Second Generation South Asian Writers in Britain” (working title) within the framework of a research project on The Politics and Poetics of Cosmopolitanism in English Literatures of South Asian Background at the University of Bern, Switzerland.


Sandra Meyer
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a PhD candidate at the University of Duisburg-Essen where she also works as a research associate and teaches in various fields of literature.  She focuses on Postcolonialism, Postmodernism and Literary and Cultural Theory.    


Nusrat Mirza

Anshuman Mondal, South Asian literature, culture, history, postcolonial theory, modern Arabic literature, identity and ideology in S. Asia and Middle East, religion, secularism and multiculturalism, postcolonial ethics.  


Nancy Morkel
, African fiction, representation, Frantz Fanon, Zoë Wicomb, so-called ‘colouredness’, identity, spoken word, slam poetry, hiphop/rap.           


Lindsey Moore, postcolonial women’s writing; Arab women’s writing in English, French & translation; diaspora literatures; South Asian literatures in English; postcolonial theory.


Julie Mullaney, a Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.  Her research interests include Australian, New Zealand and South African cultural production, Indigenous studies, critical whiteness studies, globalisation and South Asian writing.  She’s currently working on two projects, Behind the Feedshed:  Land, the law and race in Contemporary Australian and South African Literatures and Cultures and Postcolonial Literatures in Context (Continuum, 2009).  


Sarah Mumford
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Creolization and Caribbean Literature.


Dr Melanie Murray


David Murphy
, p
ostcolonial thought in French-speaking world, African cultural studies   


Kaori Nagai
 


Denise deCaires Narain
, Caribbean writing and culture with an emphasis on women’s writing; contemporary postcolonial women’s writing.       


Susheila Nasta
    


Ahmed Nazneen

 

Lovemore Ndlovu    


Aoilleann Nímhurchú
   
 


Jana Nittel
, A graduate of Leipzig University, Germany I was awarded my doctorate in Twentieth-Century British Women’s Serial Detective Fiction by Roehampton University, London in 2007. My research interests concern the literary self/representations of British Muslim culture and identities in film and fiction, postcolonial theory, literary representations of Masculinity, gender theory, Twentieth-Century Anglo-American fiction, in particular genre and popular fiction, and 18th-and 19th-Century fictional and non-fictional British women’s travel writing.

 

Christine O’Dowd-Smyth


Simone Oettli-van Delden
NZ literature, especially Janet Frame, Katherine Mansfield, Witi Ihimaera, and Patricia Grace / South African literature, especially Bessie Head / Caribbean literature, especially Jean Rhys / Bakhtin / Post-colonial & Feminist theory.  


Breda
O’Hara-Davies, Breda is an English teacher at a sixth form college in Brunei Darussalam; currently pursuing doctoral studies at The University of Technology Sydney (UTS).  Her areas of interest include Identity, Bilingualism, Post-colonial Contexts, and Islam in a Globalised World.  

    

Alice O’Neill, representations of Black British immigrants and the various roles of the archive in postcolonial contexts.


Alexander Padamsee
, a
Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent.  Research interests include:  literatures and cultures of modern South Asia; colonial discourse and postcolonial theory; the Indo-English novel; colonialist literature in India; race, religion and empire in 19th and 20th century British literature.  Publications include;  Representations of Indian Muslims in British Colonial Discourse (2005).


Mariangela Palladino
Toni Morrison’s studies, ethics of narrative, representations of the human body.   
 


Savrina Parevadee Chinien
Caribbean francophone and anglophone literature.


George Bradford Patterson, I am an American from Pennsylvania.  Research interests are: American literature, Anglo-Irish literature, British literature, Latin American literature, including magical realism and Caribbean literature, South Asian literature, Russian literature, applied linguistics and Peace linguistics.  I have published two books of poetry in Spanish, Ode to Isla Negra; Purple Melodies: Odes and Songs.  I have also published three books of poetry in English, Blossoms at EDSA II ; Selected Poems of Love, Liberation and Beauty; Poems of Love, Liberation and Beauty: New and Collected; and one book  of selected prose, Selected Short Stories, Essays, & Vignettes For Peace, Justice, & Reconciliation.  I am a member of International TESOL and the Chilean Society of Writers.  I got my BA in religion at Temple University, Philadelphia USA and a Masters in Language Education with a Concentration in ESL in 1982 at Rudgers.  I am a permanent resident in the Philippines living in Quezon City, Metro Manila.

Stefanie Van de Peer


Michael Perfect, I am currently in the final stages of my doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. Analysing novels of the past two decades that explore ethnic diversity in London, my research seeks to understand what kinds of literary representations of ethnic diversity and "multiculturalism" in London have been most celebrated, and why. My publications include articles on Monica Ali and Andrea Levy.

Sarah Pett, recently completed a Master’s by research at Rhodes University (South Africa) on the narration of torture in South African literature.   Now a doctoral candidate at the University of York, she is currently working on representations of suffering in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee.


Christina Phillips 

Andy Pilkington, race & ethnicity.


Jennifer Piper
 Australian literature & painting, 20th century Indian women’s writing. 


Angelia Poon
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Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.  Her research interests include postcolonial theory, Victorian and postcolonial literature, cosmopolitan subjectivities, and issues related to gender, race, sexuality and the nation.       


Jane Poyner
, twentieth-century and contemporary South African literature, particularly the politics of writing during the apartheid and post-apartheid eras, literary ‘commitment’, representations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa and of the apartheid and post-apartheid city, J.M.Coetzee, postcolonial intellectual history.         


Shital Pravinchandra
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South Asian literature, science and biotechnology and its intersections with postcolonial studies, globalization, Marxism. 


Marika Preziuso
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Caribbean studies, Gender studies, Literature from the Caribbean and Latin-American diaspora.


Ranka Primorac
 


Dobrota Pucherova
, S
outhern African literature.  


Tara Puri
 

 

Dr Jenni RamoneSouth Asian, Middle-Eastern & Diaspora Literature; Translation theory.  


Séverine Rebourcet
,
is a PhD Candidate at the University of Maryland College Park. Her research interests include (post)colonial French Creole literature from the Indian Ocean (Reunion Island).    

  

Maria Ridda, South Asian diasporic literature, transnational and postcolonial cities, Modernist literature, early 20th century visual art.


Jill Ridley
, postcolonial. 


Alice Ridout
, Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Contemporary Women’s Writing at Leeds Metropolitan University. I have worked extensively on the fiction of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. Currently, I am working on Lessing’s autobiography in relation to the concept of the “Third Culture Kid” and cosmopolitanism. I am fascinated by the intersection between feminism and postcolonialism.


Debbie Riehl

Nancy Roberts
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a part-time PhD student at Birkbeck College, London, working on the intersections between postcolonial and feminist theory in the novels of Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood, and is generally interested in the cultural politics of dress, particularly the veil.  She works in the publishing industry as a Production Manager for the Penguin Group. 


Brian Rock
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Anglo-Irish literature and drama, African studies, postcolonial theory, the novel genre and metafiction.  My current project investigates the development of postcolonial perspectives within Irish studies through an examination of Irish fiction during the 1930s and 1940s.  Through a study of the Irish writer Flann O’Brien’s novels and journalism I raise the question of to what extent postcolonial concepts can adequately describe the Irish condition, and more specifically, O’Brien’s work.   


Caroline Rooney


Mantra Roy
, Postcolonial theory, Subaltern Studies, South Asian Literature, African American literature and theory, Cinema, Ethnic Studies, Postcolonial and Third World Feminism.

 
 

Dr Alison RuddPostcolonial Gothic, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand literatures & films, contemporary British writing.  


Amy Rushton, MPhil/PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London. My research concerns the representation of violence and conflict in contemporary African fiction. This also coincides with my interest in the politics of representation that affects much postcolonial literature and film. Other interests include the material factors of postcolonial literature (such as publishing, writing and audience); black British and American writing; broadly, the novel as a social and critical form.


Dr Dalia Said Mostafa, Literary and cinematic representations of Beirut since the Lebanese civil war up to the present; English and postcolonial literature including the Arabic novel; Arab cinema with a focus on the image of the city.   

 

Dr Kamal Salhi, Francophone, Postcolonial studies.  Analysis of the intellectual and cultural production (film, literature, theatre and music) of North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, and their diasporas.


Charlotta Salmi, Postcolonial Theory; Partition; Palestinian Literature; Israeli Literature; Indian Literature; Magical Realism.


Cristina Sandru,  comparative studies, postcommunism, migration & identity studies, East-Central Europe.  


Annedith Schneider
, postcolonial literatures; literature and migration; gender studies; representations of violence.


Sanjay Seth, I have published in the fields of modern Indian history, political and social theory, postcolonial theory and international relations.  I am particularly interested in how modern European ideologies, and modern Western knowledge more generally, ‘travelled’ to the non-Western world- and what effects this had both on the non-Western world, and on modern, Western knowledge.


Mitra M. Shahrani, I am an MA student of British Studies in the Faculty of World Studies (FWS), University of Tehran, Iran. My research interests include cultural and postcolonial theories and debates, particularly Middle Eastern cultures and subcultures, the Orientalist discourses and the impact of Globalisation on the local communities and traditions. I am also very interested in Iran’s domestic politics and its politico-cultural relations with the West.   

Shailja Sharma
, postcolonial theory, globalization, citizenship, cultural studies.

 

Yafa Shanneik, I did my PhD at the Department of English literature and Cultural Studies (University of Wuerzburg Germany). In my research, I have worked on Anglophone literature produced by contemporary female authors of Arab background such as Ahdaf Soueif, Fadia Faqir or Leila Aboulela within the contexts of postcolonial and gender studies. My research interests are: Anglo-Arab and America-Arab literature, literature of diaspora, cultural translation, migration literature, globalisation, identity constructions, islamic identites and gender identities. 


Atilla Silku, American Poetry, Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism, Native American Literature


Rezzan Silku
, Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Victorian Novel, 20th Century Novel, Autobiography.


Shahram R. Sistani
, I did my PhD on Peter Carey’s Fiction. I am a regular faculty member at the Chabahar Maritime University of Iran. My area of interest is Postcolonial Studies, Australian Studies, Psychoanalytic analysis of literary texts.


Maureen Speller


Robert Spencer
teaches postcolonial literatures and cultures at the University of Manchester.  His research interests encompass the literatures of Africa, Ireland and the Caribbean; postcolonial theory; the philosophy of modernism; and the work of Edward W. Said.  He is currently working on a book on the relevance of cosmopolitan ideas to debates within postcolonial theory and literary criticism.  

   

Neelam Srivastava, Indian literature in English, Italian colonialism, translation studies in South Asia, postcolonial theory. I teach postcolonial literature at Newcastle University. 


Florian Stadtler
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currently working at the Open University as a postdoctoral research assistant to Susheila Nasta on the AHRC funded cross-institutional research project ‘Making Britain:  South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950’.  His research interests are in South-Asian writing in English, Diaspora Studies, the postcolonial novel, and Indian Popular Cinema.  He has published on Vikram Chandra, Salman Rushdie, and Hindi Cinema.     

    

John Stotesbury   


Dr. Dalene M. Swanson
, is an Adjunct Professor at The University of British Columbia and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Alberta. Dalene’s research interests include socio-cultural and political perspectives in education; curriculum studies; cultural studies; critical theory/pedagogy; mathematics education; and teacher education. She researches from critical poststructural and postcolonial perspectives. Concerned with the social construction of difference and disadvantage, Dalene’s work focuses on the interrelated concepts of discourse, subjectivity, context and ideology. Dalene has a strong research and personal commitment to social and ecological justice and critical global citizenship. Web site: www.ualberta.ca/~dalene/index.html    


Jennifer Terry
, African American and Caribbean Literatures, Black Diaspora Studies. 

   

Alex Tickell, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth.  He has published widely on colonial and postcolonial fiction, especially South-Asian fiction, and also works on travel writing and literature and terrorism.  His publications include a critical edition of Shoshee Chunder Dutt’s writing:  Selections from ‘Bengaliana’  (Trent 2005), and Alternative Indias:  Writing, Nation and Communalism (Rodopi 2005), co-edited with Peter Morey.  He has recently completed a student guide, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (Routledge 2007), and is currently working on an AHRC-funded monograph project on violence and empire.    


Bernadette Trehy, Women Writing the Demise of Empire:  Rumer Godden, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Bowen.   


Daria Tunca
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I work as an assistant in the English Department of the University of Liège, Belgium.  My research interests include African literatures (especially diasporic Nigerian fiction) and stylistics.  


Klara Uhlirova
 was born in 1981 in Prague. She has graduated in Comparative Literatures and Postcolonial Cultures with a final dissertation on “Paper Masters: the Teacher in English, Indian and Italian Literature” and is currently attending a PhD in Literatures and Cultures of the English Speaking Countries at the University of Bologna. Her research project focuses on migrant children identity quest in contemporary diasporic writers’ novels, with an emphasis on women authors born in the Indian subcontinent. 


Alexej Ulbricht, the politics of multiculturalism; discourses of cultural preservation; liberalism and its encounter with the other; the framing of community and discourses of exclusion; global capitalism and liberal regulatory regimes; human rights and conceptions of the human; Korean identity and nationalism; the politics of music and sound. 


Dennis Walder I am currently Professor of Literature and Director of the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University, set up to promote interdisciplinary research and collaborative projects (founding director David Richards).  See www.open.ac.uk/arts/ferguson-centre/  for details of aims, staffing, exchanges, seminars, past and current projects.  My books include Post-Colonial Literatures (1998), Athol Fugard  (2003), Literature in the Modern World (2nd edn 2003); forthcoming, Postcolonial Nostalgias (Routledge, 2009).


Tom Walsh


 

Abigail Ward, Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University.  Research interests include representations of slavery and Indian indenture.  She recently co-edited a special issue of Atlantic Studies (6:2) titled ‘Tracing black America in black British culture’, and her monograph on Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar is forthcoming with Manchester University Press.  Other forthcoming work includes essays on Phillips, Dabydeen, Beryl Gilroy and Ismith Khan.             

 

Chris Warnes    


Mandala White
,
My PhD thesis synthesises postcolonial and American studies theory in an exploration of the relationship between postcolonialism and terrorism.  My MA (from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand) offered an ecocritical reading of three urban New Zealand novels.  My research interests include the contemporary novel (in particular, those from New Zealand and the United States), New Zealand literature more generally, postcolonial theory, human-animal studies, ecocriticism and American-Islamic relations.    

      
Desmond Wilkinson
, traditional and folk music performance, globalisation and traditional music, Ireland: diaspora, culture, history and politics and the francophone diaspora, particularly as it relates to issues of music/cultural politics, identity and aesthetics. Celticism/Celtitude.
  

   
Janet Wilson, Janet Wilson works on New Zealand and Australian literature and film; diasporic writing, intellectual diasporas (movements of scholars between metropolitan centres and colonies), literature and fundamentalism. She is the Editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and currently Chair of EACLALS.


Gina Wisker
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Postcolonial gothic and women’s writing. 

 

Dr Adrian S. Wisnicki, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of London, Birkbeck College.  Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel, his first book of criticism, was published in 2007 by Routledge.  His new project, Fieldwork of Empire: Non-Western Culture and Agency in the Production of Victorian Colonial Discourse, explores the constitutive contribution of African populations to Victorian travel and exploration literature.


Anastasia Valassopoulos
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iterature and culture of the Middle East and North Africa, Arab women’s film and music, Arab-American writing, postcolonial feminism.  

 

Vedrana Velickovic, I’m interested in the issues of belonging and unbelonging in women’s writing, post-colonial and post-socialist studies, feminist theory, the discussions of loss and melancholia in recent theory.  I’m currently completing my thesis on the idea of (un)belonging in post-1990s British and Former Yugoslav women’s writing focusing on writers such as Bernadine Evaristo, Jackie Kay, Meera Syal, Dubravka Ugresic and Vesna Goldsworthy.   


Marta Vizcaya Echano
 


Amina Yaqin
, is currently Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies and Urdu at the School of Oriental and African Studies.  She has published articles on gendered themes in women’s poetry from Pakistan, and contributed to chapters in edited books on Anita Desai and Salman Rushdie.  She is Project Partner for the UEL/SOAS AHRC International Network on ‘Framing Muslims: culture and representation in society post 9/11’.


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