Ekua Agha, postcolonial
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
Aghogho Akpome
Nath Aldalala’a
Alaa Alghamdi
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
Nivin El Asdoudi, magical realism, Egyptian-Nubian literature, South African Literature, Nigerian Literature, German Colonial
history.
Lizzy Attree, HIV & AIDS in literature from Zimbabwe and South
Africa since 1990. My post-doctoral research continues the pioneering work begun in my PhD and focuses on narratives of self
and other, silent bodies and dissident vernaculars. I would like to develop my research to examine issues of HIV/AIDS, imaginaries
of bodies and self in literature across the African continent and comparatively with literature in Asia and the diaspora.
I have a strong feminist commitment to my work and wish to broaden awareness of the very best of African literature
published since 1990 with a particular focus on the form and aesthetics of that literature. My research
links literature with social issues and examines the key role that culture and art play in national politics, the formation
and comprehension of history, the construction and assertion of identity on an individual and communal level both in terms
of post-colonial reparation and modern issues of rights and identity.
Derek Attridge, South African literature; theories of alterity.
Georgia Axiotou
Clare Barker, Lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham.
Research interests: Disability Studies; representations of disability in postcolonial literatures; indigenous literatures
and politics; healthcare and medicine in postcolonial writing; 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”.
Jodie Bell, Marketing Executive for Journal
of Postcolonial Writing, Wasafiri and postcolonial journals from Routledge.
Anna Bernard
Iris Bicakcic
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, 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.
Ruth Bush, Francophone postcolonial studies.
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.
Yi-heng Chen
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 Counihan, modern
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.
Nasim Dashti Zadeh, British Studies M. A. Student
at Faculty of World Studies (FWS), University of Tehran, Iran, I am interested in political and cultural affairs. I am doing
researches so that I can write my dissertation on Political and Cultural topics.
Emily Davis
Denise deCaires Narain, the intersection of feminism and the postcolonial with a special emphasis on the Caribbean and on women’s writing.
Sharae Deckard, 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.
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.
Emilia Maria Duran Almarza
Sam Durrant, 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, 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).
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt received her graduate training at Edinburgh University (MLitt) and the University of Michigan (PhD).
She is an associate professor of women’s studies at Minnesota State University. Her essays on the intertwining of the
familial and the imperial in Anglophone Caribbean literature have been published in journals such as Small Axe and
ARIEL. With Pallavi Rastogi she co-edited Before Windrush: Recovering and Asian and Black Literary Heritage within
Britain (2008). She is currently researching African diaspora women’s autobiographies.
Catherine Fildes
Richard Fisk, I am
currently researching representations of the Indian landscape in post-Independence literature within a postcolonial/ecocritical
framework.
Bobby Flora-Bhambra, 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, 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
Josie Gill, race, genetics, contemporary fiction.
Rachael Gilmour, 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
Devi Hardeen
Nick Harrison, 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
Eri Hitotsuyanagi-Kobayashi, obtained 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.
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.
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.
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 is a lecturer acting as head of the department of English at the faculty of Arts and Humanities in
Sultan Moulay Slimane University in Beni Mellal, Morocco. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Middle Ground: International
Journal of Literary and Cultural Encounters. He has published articles and organised conferences related to the issue
of otherness. Post colonial fiction is his majointerest.
Maria Kelly
Melissa Kennedy
Michelle Keown
Kath Kerr-Koch, Indian and African Women’s Writing, romanticism, Critical Theory
Stuti Khanna
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 Kimber, 20th
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.
Patricia Krus
Karima Laachir, 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, 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).
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.
Jeff Mather, travel writing, postcolonial writing, contemporary Chinese
fiction.
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’.
M.J. Mead
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.
Nirmala Menon, I am an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies. My research interests are multilingual literatures from India, postcolonial
theory and translation studies and the intersections between all three areas. Gender and Women’s studies are also additional
pedagogical interests.
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, 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.
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, Creolization and Caribbean Literature.
Dr Melanie Murray
Kaori Nagai
Hania A.M. Nashef, Postcolonial studies; postmodernism; media representations in the Arab World. Publications:
The Politic of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee. “Becomings in J. M. Coetzee's
Waiting for the Barbarians and José Saramago's Blindness.”
Susheila Nasta
Ahmed Nazneen
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.
Uzoechi Nwagbara, I am a freelance journalist, writer, academic and poet. I have published articles in international journals
and books. I am currently doing a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management
at Greenwich School of Management, UK. I have Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English
language from Abia State University and University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria respectively
Dr. Dalene O'Donovan, 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
Dr Benedict Onuora Nweke, teaches African American Women’s Writing, African Fiction and Nigerian
Literature in the department of English, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria.
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.
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).
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 Third Cinema, World cinema,
film studies, African cinema, feminisms, transnational cultures, Arab feminisms, the Arab world, Northern Africa & the
Maghreb. My PhD research focuses on films by pioneering Northern African women.
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, 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, South Asian literature, science and biotechnology
and its intersections with postcolonial studies, globalization, Marxism.
Marika Preziuso, Caribbean studies, Gender studies, Literature
from the Caribbean and Latin-American diaspora.
Ranka Primorac
Dobrota Pucherova, Southern African literature.
Tara Puri
Dr Jenni Ramone, South 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.
Debbie
Riehl
Nancy Roberts, 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, 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 Rudd, Postcolonial
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.
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.
Nora Scholtes
Atilla Silku, American Poetry, Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism,
Native American Literature
Rezzan Silku, Colonialism, Postcolonialism, Victorian Novel, 20th Century Novel, Autobiography.
Pooja Sinha, I am interested in Popular Fiction in Indian Writing in English, placing it in the context of the recent growth of
the publishing industry in India. I shall be looking at the production and reception of ‘genre fiction’ in India.
Genre Theory, Book history.
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, 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
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, 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, Postcolonial gothic and women’s
writing.
Anastasia Valassopoulos, literature 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’.
Asia Zgadzaj
