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Chair Dave Gunning
Dave Gunning studied at the Universities of Manchester and Leeds. Since 2007, he has lectured in English at the University of Birmingham. His research interests centre on the politics of minority identity and representations of race and ethnicity, and on the formation of ‘postcolonial literature’ as a commercial, critical, and pedagogical category. His book Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature was published in 2010. He is currently completing an introduction to postcolonial literature as part of the Edinburgh University Press Critical Guides to Literature series and working on a larger project examining the postcolonial essay as a distinctive literary form. Before becoming Chair, Dave served as PSA Treasurer from 2009-11.
Vice Chair Claire Chambers
Claire Chambers is a senior lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, where she researches and teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. She is the author of British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (ISBN: 978-0-230-30878-7). She has also published widely in such journals as Postcolonial Text, Crossings, and Contemporary Women’s Writing, and is Co-editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
Claire’s interest in the literature of the Indian subcontinent and ‘the Muslim world’ was originally ignited by the year she spent prior to university teaching in Peshawar, Pakistan. It continues to be informed by return visits to the region, and by engagement work with diasporic communities. Next she will write a monograph entitled Literary Representations of British Muslims, 1966-Present. Both texts in this two-book series are published by Palgrave Macmillan, and supported by funding from the British Academy and Arts and Humanity Research Council
Membership Secretary Helen Cousins
Helen Cousins is Senior Lecturer in English literature at Newman University College, Birmingham, UK and Programme Leader for the online MA in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.
Her publications include work on African women writers in relation to gendered violences and feminist praxis, and on contemporary Black British fiction. Other recent research includes the study of popular postcolonial novels some of which is included in her edited volume (with Jenni Ramone) The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader (Ashgate 2011); an edited volume (with Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo) on Emerging Perspectives on Yvonne Vera (Africa World Press, forthcoming); two collaborative chapters on African writing online. She is currently working in research which explores carceral practices and African women’s literature.
Executive Secretary Patricia Krus
Treasurer Nicholas Dunlop
Nic Dunlop is Lecturer in English Literature and Film at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on postcolonial theory and literatures of the Pacific, with particular emphasis on Australasian writing. He has published a number of articles on Peter Carey, David Malouf and Janette Turner Hospital, is on the editorial advisory board of the literary journal Antipodes and is currently completing a monograph on representations of colonialism and education in science fiction.
Postgraduate/Early Career Officer Emma Bird
Emma Bird is a postgraduate student at the University of Exeter. Her PhD thesis considers how Bombay has been represented in poetry written in the decades following Independence, and assesses the significance of the city as a site of poetic engagement. Her research focuses on the work of the poets involved with the publishing venture Clearing House, examining the relationship between their poetry and the wider artistic networks of little magazine culture. Emma is a Teaching Assistant at Exeter. Her research interests include contemporary Indian literature, the postcolonial archive, postcolonial theory, and representations of the postcolonial city in literature and film.
Web Officer Dorota Goluch
Dorota Goluch is a PhD candidate and a teaching assistant at University College London. Her AHRC-funded doctoral research focuses on the Polish translations and reception of Anglophone postcolonial fiction from the period 1970-2010. Her main research interests include Caribbean women’s writing, postcolonial translation, translation studies, and the question of Eastern European postcoloniality. Dorota’s MA dissertation, written at the University of Kent, appeared in 2011 as I Rather Dead: A Spivakian Reading of Indo-Caribbean Women’s Narratives. She also acts as a postgraduate representative of the British Comparative Literature Association.
Bulletin Co-ordinator Jenni Ramone
Jenni Ramone is Senior Lecturer in English at Newman University College, Birmingham. Jenni teaches an online MA in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. She completed doctoral research on Salman Rushdie’s fiction at Loughborough University in 2007. Jenni’s research interests are in postcolonial and translation theories, South Asian and middle-Eastern and diaspora literature. Jenni is author of Postcolonial Theories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and coeditor of The Richard and Judy Book Club Reader (Ashgate, 2011).
Newsletter Editor Nicola Abram
Nicola Abram is undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Reading. Her research on black British women's theatre since 1980 explores the construction and deconstruction of categories of identity such as gender, ethnicity, and nationality, focussing on non-naturalistic dramatic and performance forms. Her broader research interests include postcolonial narratives and women's writing. Nicola's recent publications include an article on debbie tucker green in the journal MaComère (Spring 2011). She has also co-organised an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, Minority Identities: Rights and Representations (7.5.11).
Newsletter Editor Lindsey Moore
Lindsey Moore is Lecturer in English at Lancaster University (UK). Her research to date is primarily related to North African and Middle Eastern literature (in English, French and translation); she's also interested in visual media from that region. Her first monograph - Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film - came out with Routledge in 2008. She reads and teaches widely in the postcolonial field, particularly with regards South Asian and diaspora fiction. As an expatriate of sorts (born in the UK; grew up in New Zealand; adult life thus far in Japan and back in the UK), she is drawn to travel writing and expatriate fiction, and has been working on Paul Bowles and his Moroccan collaborations. She's also recently edited a Symposium in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and a Special Issue of Postcolonial Text on the paradigm of the 'glocal' as this relates to postcolonial studies. In 2010-11, she directed a project on Islamism in Arab fiction and film, and is now editing a collection on this topic. She's also trying to learn Arabic and is taking an intensive beginner course in Morocco this summer. She is the co-editor of the PSA newsletter (with Nicola Abram).
Current Members
Rehab Hosny Abdel-Ghany A Teaching Assistant, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo Unermeeiversity. She holds BA (Hons) and MA in English literature. Rehab is the first academic researcher in NZ Maori culture and literature in Egypt; her MA thesis is on NZ Maori novel in English. Among her research interests are the novel, postcolonial literatures, orality and literacy, literary theory, cultural studies, cultural anthropology and genre studies.
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.
Hena Ahmad is a professor of English in the Department of English and Linguistics at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, where she teaches Postcolonial literature and theory.
Samar Hameed AlJahdali I am interested in cross-cultural encounters and national images. My M.A. thesis draws on postcolonial theories to examine representations of India in Rudyard Kipling's Kim arguing that the hybrid forms of the Westernized Indian and the English going native deconstruct the Kiplingesque precept of "East is East, and West is West and never the twain shall meet." Currently, my PhD research aims to explore how Palestine as a geopolitical space is given literary form by Jewish American and Arab novelists. Measuring 'otherwise knowable historical events', the dissertation aims to examine literary representations of historic Palestine across the events of 1948, 1967, and the 1980s.
Burcu Alkan Modernity/Modernisation, Nationalism/Nation Formation, Intellectuals/Intellectuality, city as an artistic and intellectual space, the relationship between literature and society, literature & ideology, Turkish literature, comparative literature, twentieth century literature, the novel.
Maria Alonso Alonso PhD candidate at the Universidade de Vigo (Spain) with a dissertation in which she explores the concept of ‘Diasporic Marvellous Realism’ through an analysis of history, memory and identity in Caribbean fiction. She is a member of the research group ‘Feminario de Investigación Feminismos e Resistencias’ at the Department of English Philology of her home-university where she participates with research in the areas of comparative studies between English and Hispanic literature, diasporic fictions, and magical and marvellous realism.
Letizia Alterno Postcolonial Theory and Literatures, Diasporic Writing, Indian Writing in English. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Raja Rao Publication Project (http://www.therajaraoendowment.org/). Her PhD at the University of Manchester focused on a postcolonial reading of Raja Rao's production. She authored several articles on Rao (The Guardian, The Times of India) and translated some of his works into Italian. She is editing a collection investigating the significance of Rao’s production in the transnational era.
Amal Mohammed Al-Malki, Ph.D., is Assistant Teaching Professor of English. She teaches sinscourses 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
Mourad Amri I am a PhD candidate interested in the study of the theme of exile and identity formation in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise from a postcolonial perspective.
Sandra Annett PhD Candidate at the University of Manitoba, Canada. She is interested in Japanese popular culture, media globaliadahzation, transcultural fan communities, world literature and cinema, and animated film.
Nivin El Asdoudi magical realism, Egyptian-Nubian literature, South African Literature, Nigerian Literature, German Colonial history.
Nadia Atia British perceptions of Mesopotamia 1900-1932; Other fronts and soldiers of the First World War; British travel writing in and about the Middle East, particularly Iraq; colonial/ postcolonial nostalgia
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 holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2009), where she is presently awarded with a Post-Doc Teaching Fellowship (2011). Her current research explores poststructuralist formulations of community in a postcolonial context. Revised sections of her thesis on the representation of slavery in West African literature have appeared in journals and edited collections.
Jan Babar Ecotourism in Southeast Asia
Anna Ball Anna’s research adopts a postcolonial feminist approach to questions of culture, identity and power within the Middle East. Her monograph, ‘Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective’, will be published by Routledge in late 2012. She is also interested in the relationship between space and power in postcolonial literature more broadly, and in questions of cultural activism and transnational solidarity within the Israeli-Palestinian and UK-Middle Eastern landscapes.
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.
Lucy Barnett has recently completed an MA at the University of York in Cultures of Empire, Resistance and Postcoloniality, with an MA dissertation on contemporary Burmese literature. Her research interests include Southeast Asian literature, and human rights and literature. She is also interested in feminist science fiction as a vehicle for political debate, and is a very involved member of Amnesty International.
Susanne Becker holds a degree in sociology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich/Germany. Currently she is working on her Ph.D. Project “A postcolonial perspective on the recognition of language as cultural capital in Germany and South Africa” at Goethe- University Frankfurt/Germany. In her research she is generally interested in hegemonic discourses and power relations. Research interests are feminist postcolonial theory, critical migration studies and the study of social inequalities.
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. Acrigacordingly, 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.
April Biccum, global citizenship, development, the politics of empire, postcolonial international relations, globalisation, popular culture and global governance.
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.
Peter Blair South African literature, especially fiction. Publications include ‘The liberal tradition in fiction’ in The Cambridge History of South African Literature, ed. Derek Attridge and David Attwell (CUP, Dec. 2011). Co-editor of Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine: www.chester.ac.uk/flash.magazine
Liesbeth De Bleeker, Francophone literatures, esp. Caribbean; translation studies; representation of space; narratology; discourse analysis.
Bethany Bloomfield-Carnill Australia / New Zealand writing.
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-Barthet, African, Australian, and Maltese writing.
Rachel Bower I am in the final year of my doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on epistolarity and encounter in the late twentieth-century. I ask how epistolarity stages encounter across national, cultural and historical boundaries, particularly in world literature. My wider research includes work on Arab anglophone writing, postcolonial institutions and the archive, and the impact of historical and political contexts on material texts.
Maggie Bowers First Nations and Native American literature, Canadian literature, postcolonial writing in the United States, postcolonial women’s writing.
Natalia Bremner My PhD research project looks at constructions of Réunionese and Mauritian cultural identities within literature, theatre, political discourse, and popular culture and music.
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.
Natalia Budohoska, research interests: I am a PhD Student at the Department of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. The dissertation that I am currently working on aims at describing the post-colonial variety of English in Kenya. I am also interested in the aspect of language as a means of expressing identity in a multilingual reality.
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.
Alberto Fernández Carbajal postdoctoral teaching assistant at the University of Leeds, interested in modern and contemporary British literature, South Asian and Black British writing, colonial literature, postcolonial film and Hispano-Anglophone approaches to postcolonial studies.
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. Most recent publication: The Impact of the Postcolonial Theories of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Homi Bhabha on Western Thought: The Third-world Intellectual in the First-world Academy (New York: Edwin Mellen, March,2011)
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 specializes in postcolonial literatures and cultures with particular attention to Pan-African nationalism and black internationalism. Her research explores the transnational circulation of literary forms; the relationships between literary and social authority; and how globalizing forms and enactments of gender and desire interact with local cultures in African and African diasporic contexts.
Marianne Corrigan, I am a PhD student at Keele University, where my research examines globalization, discourses of inter-connectivity and narrative migrancy in the later novels of Salman Rushdie. I am also especially interested in the relationship between economic imperialism, neo-liberalism and discourses of postcolonialism.
JosAnn Cutajar, feminist postcolonial studies, postcolonial pedagogy with special interest on the teaching of sociological issues.
Adam Daniell
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.
Dominic Davies Researching colonial literature at the end of the nineteenth century, key figures include Kipling and Schreiner, reading colonial narratives interdiscursively alongside the architecture of the imperial project.
Emma Dawson Emma works at the intersection of postcolonial literature and cultural studies, drawing on ethnographic research paradigms to conduct her fieldwork. She has researched and edited anthologies of short stories from Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya (all 2009/2010, CCC Press, UK) and 2011 will see anthologies from Malaysia and India. She is currently working on her monograph: Beyond The Postcolonial: World Englishes Literature. See her work: www.beyondthepostcolonial.com
Asis De I’m working on the identity issue in different spaces of cultural sites in the novels of Amitav Ghosh and Ben Okri. My M.Phil dissertation was on the search for home and identity in V. S. Naipaul’s fiction. Also interested in Dalit literatures in English in India.
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.
Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, African literature, especially Zimbabwean; African cinema.
Muhammad Amjad Dogar Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Feminism.
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.
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.
Om Prakash Dwivedi Indian English literature, postcolonial theory, human rights and migration.
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.
Lucy Evans research interests: Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester. Research interests: Caribbean literature and popular culture; black British writing; constructions of community; the short story; crime writing and the representation of crime; readership and publishing history.
Anna Maria Everding Postgraduate student at the University of Northampton. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, postcolonial cinema, especially Hindi cinema and British South Asian cinema, and the concepts of space, place, home and belonging in the changing world.
Neda Fekri, I am very much interested in postcolonial studies, and more specifically on the notions of Hybridity, Contact zone, Transculturation, Diaspora, and Orientalism. I am doing my PhD thesis on the works of a British-Egyptian novelist.
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.
Wennielyn Fajilan I am a Graduate of Masters in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines. I am teaching communication and research in Filipino at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. My research interests are postcolonial literature, feminism, popular culture, children and young adult literature, translation and adaptation studies.
Hidayatul Atiqah bte Hj Mohd Jeff Fariz Post- Occupation South east Asia.
David Farrier lecturer in modern and contemporary literature in English, University of Edinburgh. His main research interests concern where postcolonial studies goes next; in particular, he works on asylum as a postcolonial issue. He is the author of Postcolonial Asylum (LUP, 2011), and Unsettled Narratives: the Pacific writing of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London (Routledge, 2007).
Ross G. 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.
Josie Gill, race, genetics, contemporary fiction.
Christine Gilmore The impact of the Aswan High Dam on Nubian society and culture through the lens of postcolonial literature
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.
James Graham, South African & Zimbabwean fiction, especially concerning land & nationalism; postcolonial cities; postcolonial ecocriticism; black British literature.
Paulina Grzeda I’m a Ph.D. student of English Literature specialising in post-colonial literature of South Africa, West Indies and India. My current research focuses on post-colonial reading of writings by South African authors such as Andre Brink, Nadine Gordimer, Rian Malan and J.M. Coetzee. My principal interest lies in questions of memory and mythography, history and trauma.
Kate Haines is a DPhil student in the School of English at the University of Sussex. Her research explores the ways in which writing by African authors published since 2000 has intervened in the creation of cultural memory. Placing particular emphasis on the role of the publishing industry in the mediation of a collective sense of the past, the project includes close reading of texts, analysing publication histories (including imprint, cover design and marketing) and examining reception and circulation (through newspapers, websites, literary prizes and festivals).
Doris Hambuch Comparative Literature; Caribbean Studies; Film Studies; Feminist and Postcolonial Theory
Devi Hardeen Martinique and France, in particular the Indo-Franco-Antillean population from Indentured Labour
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.
Caroline Herbert Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures, Leeds Metropolitan University. Research interests: South Asian literature, film, visual art; Bombay/Mumbai in literary and visual texts; the postcolonial city, urban identities; secularism; Hindu nationalism; globalisation and neoliberalism; cross-border approaches to South Asian cultures, histories, memories, and narratives of belonging.
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.
Graham Huggan Comparative postcolonial literary/cultural studies; postcolonialism, animals and environment; postcolonial film.
Robert Ivermee is a PhD candidate and assistant lecturer at the University of Kent. His dissertation considers colonial education and Muslims in nineteenth century India. Wider research interests include religion and secularism; colonialism and Western knowledge; and Islam in South Asia.
Naheem Jabbar As a South Asian specialist, my primary research interests are in the following areas: Colonialism; British Imperialism; Indian Nationalism; Empire; Postcolonial Theory; Religion and [neo]-Colonialism; Subaltern Agency. I’ve had a book published, Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India (2009) as well as articles, chapters on V. S. Naipaul, B. R. Ambedkar, the surveillance modality of the British state and the use of Shi’a ritual by subaltern groups in Pakistan.
Rena Jackson My AHRC-funded PhD examines links between class and empire in the novels of Thomas Hardy. It uses a cultural materialist approach to the colonial in Hardy’s fiction to critique core–periphery models of Wessex, and ultimately strives to give postcolonial theory a labour emphasis. Publications include ‘Hardy and Empire’ in Thomas Hardy in Context (forthcoming with CUP) and ‘Hybridity and Migrancy in Jude the Obscure’ (The Thomas Hardy Journal, 2009).
Rebecca Jones I am a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham researching twentieth and twenty-first century Nigerian travel writing in Yoruba and English.
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.
Tamás Juhász Postcolonial masculinities, immigration and literature, Joseph Conrad studies, psychoanalytic literary criticism, feminist theories, twentieth-century British and American fiction, gender in Central-European film.
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.
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
Kath Kerr-Koch, Indian and African Women’s Writing, romanticism, Critical Theory
Stuti Khanna Colonial and Postcolonial Cities, South Asian writing in English, Modernism, Translation.
Naser Jamal Khdour Although there is a growing substantial interest among researchers into postcolonial theory and global management practices, there is a scarcity of such researches in Jordan. This interest contributes to the relevant literature in Jordan, and provides guidance for future studies in the field of post-colonial studies in general and in the private sector of management studies in particular. Moreover, the findings of this interest would contribute toward improving the understanding about current management style practices in the Jordanian private sector, and in what ways the private organizations can implement better management practices.
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.
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.
Asli Kutluk Travel literature, Orientalism, Postcolonialism, Postcolonial British Drama and Theatre. Master’s thesis : “The Self and the Other: Representations of Turkey and the Turks in the Travel Writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Richard Chandler.” 2006. Ph.D. dissertation in progress: “Postcolonial Drama of Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott.”
Amorella Lamount Representations of subjects marginalised by race, ethnicity, sex and gender in Anglophone Caribbean Literature. This research has larger implications for approaches to Caribbean literature since it premises localised cultural paradigms as methodology for reading Caribbean subjectivities.
Linda Lang-Peralta, Caribbean and African literature.
Sophie Lavin Victorian literature and culture, Modernism, gender studies.
Muiris O. Laoire, language endangerment, language revitalization in postcolonial contexts.
Charne Lavery Indian Ocean literature, Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Joseph Conrad, Modernism, Postcolonial Literature.
Paula Ledaga colour in built environment, chromatic preferences, urban landscape
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.
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.
Ken Lipenga Phd student at Stellenbosch University. My research is in disability studies and African literature. Other research interests include postcolonial literature, children’s literature, oral literature, African autobiography.
Sarah Lincoln Ph.D. in English (Duke University, 2008). I am assistant professor of English at Portland State University, where I teach postcolonial and other global literatures, along with world cinema and interdisciplinary theory. My research focuses on the intersections of economics, ecology and aesthetics in the contemporary global South. I am currently at work on a book entitled Oikopoiesis: Postcolonial Literature and the Art of Survival, which studies the role of consumerism, waste and economy/sustainablility in shaping postcolonial aesthetics.
Emilija Lipovsek I am a PhD candidate interested in postcolonial writings on London
Agata Lisiak Agata Anna Lisiak is an independent scholar based in Berlin. She is the author of Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe (Purdue UP, 2010) and has published her scholarship in English and Polish in journals and collected volumes in a variety of fields including urban studies, cultural studies, literary studies, film studies, and communication and media studies. Lisiak's current research deals with marketplace practices in (post)colonial Berlin.
Pat Little West African Literature in French; Education in French West Africa; Empire and Identity: Margaret Noble / Sister Nivedita and India.
Jelena Löckner intertextuality, intermediality, narratology, magical realism, Shakespeare.
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).
Amrita Malhi My research is located at the intersection of postcolonial studies and environmental history in colonial Southeast Asia. My PhD research at the Australian National University focused on constructions of the Muslim global and the politics of the Caliphate in an anti-colonial forest uprising in 1920s Malaya. I now also work on race, nature, labour and subjectivation in the Billiton tin mines in the Netherlands East Indies.
J Edward Mallot Postcolonial studies broadly, but with particular interest in South Asian literatures and Multicultural Britain.
Shiera Malik, postcolonial theory, international relations.
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 is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where he teaches postcolonial studies, critical theory, European and U.S. literatures. He has published chapters and articles on Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Nuruddin Farah, amongst others. Other research interests include memorialisation and “trauma culture,” representations of conflict in recent writing from/on Africa, writing the city and “travelling theory.”
Jeff Mather, travel writing, postcolonial writing, contemporary Chinese fiction.
Louise Mathurin Economic History of the Caribbean
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.
Malachi McIntosh My principle research interests are the creation and performance of identity through texts and the ways in which publishing and promotion influence the reception and content of literary works, particularly those from minority communities.
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.
Tamara Moellenberg Childhood in postcolonial literature and theory; contemporary West African writing in English.
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.
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.
Melanie Murray has a PhD from the University of Northampton and has published articles on Caribbean writing, Sri Lankan Writing, Orientalism, and magical realism. She is a Managing Editor for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her book, Island Paradise, the Myth: An Examination of Contemporary Caribbean and Sri Lankan Writing is published by Rodopi (2009).
Omar Nagati Urban History, Urbanization in the Developing World, Informal Urban Condition.
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.”
Alfred Ndi I hold a Ph.D in Interdisciplinary Studies with several published articles. My specific interest is integration of all areas of political economy, development policy and strategic studies, social psychology, African studies and critical theory. What drives my scholarship is how to bring Africa out of its underdevelopment in all its forms. I will soon publish a book on a radical methodology for an interdisciplinary studies programme for Africa’s development.
Joao Manuel Neves PhD research project on colonial literature of Mozambique (1854-1953)
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
Simon Obendorf: My research is situated at the nexus of postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality studies and discourses of the international. It draws extensively on contemporary East and Southeast Asian politics and everyday life. I teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules on the relationship between postcolonial theory, disciplinary international relations and development discourses. I am a founding member of the Melbourne-based Institute of Postcolonial Studies and served on that body’s governing council from 1999-2006.
Jairus Omuteche Postcolonial Literatures, Comparative studies, Theorising Globalisation and Diasporas.
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.
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.
Jay Parker Liberalism, pragmatism and the relationship between narrative, consciousness, and identity. I am currently a research student at the University of Leeds reading Joseph Conrad in conversation with Richard Rorty.
Binod Paudyal I am a first year student in PhD program in American Studies. I’m particularly interested in examining the issues of culture, identity, and space at the intersection of postcolonial studies, transnationalism, and contemporary U.S. multicultural literature. Within the context of U.S. multiculturalism, I plan to investigate the factors that influence transcultural conversations between host cultures and immigrant communities and their literary representations. I expect to explore how literary texts reconcile and disrupt the embeddedness of existing social and racial hierarchies and categories that have framed our notion of cultural identities by giving voices to oppressed groups and integrating those voices into U.S. society.
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.
Emanuela Petrosillo Postcolonial Shakespeare – Postcolonial French Literatures – Aimé Césaire. I hold a Phd in European Intercultural Studies, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy.
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.
David pike Latin America, Subaltern history of Latin America, Critical analysis of development and its links to the colonial and imperialistic urge, dependency theory, the links between social movements and theory.
Andy Pilkington, race & ethnicity.
Sharon Pillai Indian Literature, especially the impact of colonial and postcolonial epistemological assumptions on the production, reception and study of Indian novels; pre and/or noncolonial, colonial, and post and/or anticolonial articulations and deployments of gender in Indian literature; conceptions and practices of the ethical in India; postcolonial academy or knowledge practices in India.
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.
Sarah Post I am working on postcolonial British literature and how it rewrites ideas of Britishness through various genres (Gothic, comedy, Bildungsroman, S&F)
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.
Dobrota Pucherova, Dobrota Pucherova is a researcher in postcolonial and comparative literature at Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, and a lecturer in African literature at University of Vienna. She earned her PhD degree from Oxford University in 2009. Her research interest is mainly in African anglophone writing.
Tharmathasan Anton Pushparajah Post-colonialism, Internal-colonialism, Post-colonial IR theories and Literature cum management
Noor ul Qamar Qasmi Nation and Narration, Postcolonial Indo-Pak English Fiction
Sraddha Shivani Rajkomar I am a final year PhD student in the School of English at the University of Leeds. My thesis examines the role of Vaishnavism, a branch of Hinduism, in conceptualisations of indentured labour in Mauritian literature of the colonial period. My research interests include the sacred and religion in postcolonial studies; Mauritian studies; indentured labour and its relationship with slavery; Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Francophone literatures; and South Asian studies.
Anuradha Ramanujan Indian literatures, Postcolonial Feminist and Sexualities Studies, Theories of Secularism,
Nationalism and Citizenship, Environmental Ethics, Animal Studies
Mihaela Rata I am currently a Ph. D. Student in the Department of English Language and Literature with the University of Bucharest and undertaking doctoral research on Doris Lessing’s postcolonial writing focusing on the discourse of power in the postcolonial period.
Sumana Ray Literary and Artistic Productions of Black British, British Asian and South Asian Women in Diaspora.
Graham Riach Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Cambridge. My current research is on the South African short story, and its relation to political and social change. My other research interests include representations of war in African fiction, technology, Modernism, and contemporary French poetry.
Maria Ridda, South Asian diasporic literature, transnational and postcolonial cities, Modernist literature, early 20th century visual art.
Gillian Roberts, research interests: Canadian literature and film, settler-invader culture, postcolonial film and film adaptations, literary prizes, border studies.
Nicola Robinson Land and labour in Israeli, Palestinian and Sri Lankan writing.
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.
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, PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London. Current research: portrayal of modernity in contemporary African literature. Other interests: contemporary historical fiction on slavery; popular music and identity in contemporary literature; interdisciplinary development of postcolonial theory.
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.
Humeria Saeed Cultural production of Pakistan, postcolonial feminism, queer modes of belonging, transnationalism.
I work on women’s narratives of Pakistan, utilising trauma theory to address the repetitive trope of the Partition of India in contemporary fiction and film. I am currently expanding the geo-political focus of my work and engaging with the historical persistence of colonial discourse as it pertains to expressions of, and attitudes to, gender and sexuality in postcolonial writing.
Mayowa Peters Saja I am especially interested in African, Caribbean, Postcolonial and Comparative literatures. My doctorate research investigates the theatre of Africa’s first Nobel laureate.
Rita Sakr Rita Sakr is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (Continuum, 2011) and has published on Middle-Eastern studies, migrant writings, post-conflict literatures, and James Joyce. With Caroline Rooney, she is co-editing The Ethics of Representations in Literature, Journalism, and Art: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut 1982 (Routledge, 2012). Sakr’s current project is entitled “Imagining the Revolution: Literatures and Political Geographies of the Arab Uprisings”.
Charlotta Salmi, Postcolonial Theory; Partition; Palestinian Literature; Israeli Literature; Indian Literature; Magical Realism.
Cristina Sandru, comparative studies, postcommunism, migration & identity studies, East-Central Europe.
Esra Santesso, research interests: Z. Esra Mirze Santesso is Assistant Professor of English at University of Georgia, where she teaches postcolonial literature. She is the author of articles on Turkish literature and film; her interview with Orhan Pamuk appeared in PMLA (2008). Her current project is on home and Muslim identity in Anglophone literature.
Henghameh Saroukhani My research examines cosmopolitanism as a literary, sociological and philosophical paradigm from which to read contemporary black British diasporic texts. I also maintain an active interest in Canadian and British literature produced from and in response to WWI and WWII through theories of war, trauma, narratology, and memory. I am currently working on my doctoral studies at the University of Leeds, under the supervision of John McLeod.
Rehnuma Sazzad My current research is based on Edward Said and Middle-Eastern and Arab-American intellectuals. However, my research interest circles around the following: Edward Said and Comparative Literature, Modern Realism, Jane Austen & Tolstoy, Postcolonialism & Feminism, and Middle Eastern & South Asian Literature, Film, and Culture
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.
C. Shihabudeen Postcolonialism and postcoloniality are both concepts of massive political as well as socio-cultural importance today, In postcolonial poetry, postcoloniality tends to manifest itself in a variety of forms. The English poetry produced, and is being produced in independent India is a good example. Its postcoloniality turns out to be especially interesting on account of the fact that some of its poets are based not within but without India.
Soofia Siddique I am pursuing a PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. My research is on the Indian Rebellion ('Mutiny') of 1857, with reference to reflections in Indian literatures in English, Urdu and Hindi, focussing in particular on the interstices of memory, history and discursive practices. 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. 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. Tamar Steinitz Transnational literature, translation, multilingualism. Dr. Dalene 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 Julia Szoltysek works towards her doctorate at the University of Wroclaw (Poland). Her dissertation is devoted to the intertwining categories of subject/object/abject in a selection of postcolonial literature. Her academic interests include theories of race, ethnicity and gender, as well as questions of tourism and travel. 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. Alexander Thong Alexander Thong, research interests: My wider interests include (particularly in regards to South Asia and China, although not exclusively) postcolonial theory, critical constructivism, Marxism, social movements and social organisation theory , third-wave feminism, education issues, contemporary digital forms of communication, and thinking in practical terms of constructing mutual understanding. Bernadette Trehy, Women Writing the Demise of Empire: Rumer Godden, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Bowen. Lois Tugba, research interests: Currently researching the politics of gender, feminism and representation of Women’s bodies in Contemporary Nigerian women’s writing. 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. Pinar Tuzcu My research interests are migration, gender, popular culture in the frame of transcultural theory and post-colonial studies with special regard to "hybridity/creolization", "third space", "culture broker" concepts in the context of post-colonial and post-migration countries. 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). Abigail Ward Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Abigail is the author of Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D’Aguiar: Representations of Slavery (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011) and recently co-edited a special issue of Atlantic Studies (6:2) titled ‘Tracing black America in black British culture’. She is currently writing a book on Indian indenture in Caribbean writing. Other published or forthcoming work includes essays on Phillips, Dabydeen, D'Aguiar, Beryl Gilroy, Ismith Khan, Richard Wright, Ramabai Espinet and Peggy Mohan. Elizabeth Williams I am an independent researcher from an interdisciplinary background – a former nurse with a BA Hons in South Asian Studies and English, and a PhD in Public Health and Policy. My research interests build upon my PhD and include colonial and post-colonial theory and HIV/AIDS policy and programming in India and post-colonial readings of the securitization and development agenda in bilateral and multilateral aid agencies. 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, Part-time Lecturer in English Literature, Kingston University. Black British literature and culture; Post-Yugoslav writing; cultural and literary representations of (un)belonging, melancholia and mourning; representations of post-1989 ‘Eastern Europe’ in British literature, film and media; the intersections between postcolonialism and postcommunism; life writing. 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’. Manmay Zafar Educated in Bangladesh, Australia and the UK, Zafar is completing his doctoral studies at Oxford. Parts of his thesis, titled, “Censorship and the Politics of Islam: Reading Radical Writing in Postcolonial South Asia”, have appeared in InterAsia: Cultural Studies and Southern Postcolonialisms: The Global South and the “New” Literary Representations, both published by Routledge. He has presented his work at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, SOAS, and Nottingham Trent in the UK; Pennsylvania State in the USA; Queensland in Australia; Jadavpur, Hyderabad, and Delhi in India; the British Council and the German Cultural Centre in Bangladesh.