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I have a background in sociology and cultural anthropology, with a PhD in medical anthropology. I teach anthropology and social research methods in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and guest-lecture in the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health.

Claire Chambers is a lecturer at the University of York, where she teaches contemporary writing in English from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas. She is the author of British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers, and is currently writing a monograph entitled Representations of Muslims in Britain. Both texts in this two-book series are published by Palgrave Macmillan, and supported by funding from the British Academy and Arts and Humanities Research Council. Claire has also published widely in such journals as Postcolonial Text and Contemporary Women’s Writing, and is a Co-editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Dr. Emiel Martens (1980) is a media lecturer, researcher, consultant, and producer. Emiel graduated cum laude in both Media Studies and Human Geography at the University of Amsterdam, was a visiting scholar at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at University of the West Indies, Mona, and holds a Ph.D in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam. His dissertation, entitled ‘Welcome to Paradise Island: The Rise of Jamaica’s Cine-Tourist Image, 1891-1951’, marked the first study of Jamaica’s early film history and its connections with the island's early tourism history. After a postdoctoral position at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (Dutch: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, abbreviated: KITLV), Emiel joined the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam in 2015 as a Senior Lecturer. Not much later, in 2016, he also joined the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) to become a team member of the research project 'Worlds of Imagination' (ERC Consolidator Grant), a comparative study of film tourism in non-western societies. His research interests span the fields of Postcolonial (Media) Studies, Media Geography, Popular Geopolitics, Creative Industries, Film (and) Tourism and Alternative Media, with a particular focus on the history, theory and praxis of the (Anglophone) Caribbean film and visual culture. Besides his posts at the University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Emiel is also the founding director of Caribbean Creativity, a non-profit organization committed to the promotion of Caribbean and Caribbean-themed cinema, board member of NALACS, the Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, communication advisor at IDleaks, a non-profit organization aimed at better communication about international development, film section editor at Bassculture Islands, an island lifestyle and creativity magazine, and co-owner of Dudes in your Face (Dutch: Gasten in je Gezicht), a media agency specializing in web and graphic design, social media, photography, film production and event organization, particularly in the social and cultural fields.

Esha received her doctorate from the School of English, University of Leeds in 2013. This was followed by the completion of her postdoctoral fellowship under the Zukunftsphilologie programme at Freie Universität Berlin in 2014. Her research engages with the cultural politics of postcolonial Bengali and South Asian modernities via a wide range of subject areas including global capitalism, cultural materialism, subaltern historiography, children’s literature, oral folkloric traditions, Romantic nationalism, psychoanalytic narratives of melancholia, the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, the textual politics of translation, the production of the postcolonial city space, and the popular Bengali talking-practice, 'adda'.

Currently researching for a DPhil at the University of Oxford on glottopolitics in the works of B. Kojo Laing and Robert Browning

Dr Judith Misrahi-Barak, a former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, is Associate Professor at University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. She currently teaches English and Postcolonial Literatures. She has published numerous articles on Caribbean and Indo- and Sino-Caribbean writers, and the diaspora (Atlantic Studies, Commonwealth, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Moving Worlds, The Journal of the Short Story in English, The Journal of Haitian Studies, The Journal of Transnational American Studies, Black Studies Papers, International Journal of Francophone Studies, Interculturel Francophonies …), as well as book chapters in edited collections (see Short CV for details). Her Doctorate was on the Writing of Childhood in Caribbean Literature. She is involved in many international networks, the current series being: ‘Ecotones : Encounters, Crossing, Communities’ including the three Guyanas, ‘The 3G Network’ https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr and 'Thanatic Ethics: the Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces' https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/valorisation-partenariats/programmes-européens-et-internationaux/thanatic-ethics Her recent interests include Dalit literatures. She was Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded Research Network Series 'Writing, Analysing, Translating Dalit Literature', 2014-16 (Principal Investigator Dr Nicole Thiara, Nottingham Trent University, Uk). https://dalitliterature.wordpress.com/about-us-2/ She is Co-Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded Project « On Page and on Stage: Celebrating Dalit and Adivasi Literatures and Performing Arts » (Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement; Principal Investigator: Dr Nicole Thiara, Nottingham Trent University; AH/S008608/1, 2020-21). She co-edited Dalit Literatures in India with Joshil K. Abraham (Routledge, 2016; 2nd edition 2018) https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138891944 as well as Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Re-imagined, with K. Satyanarayana and N. Thiara https://www.routledge.com/Dalit-Text-Aesthetics-and-Politics-Re-imagined-1st-Edition/Misrahi-Barak-Satyanarayana-Thiara/p/book/9780367218416 She is General Editor of the series PoCoPages (Coll. ‘Horizons anglophones’, Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, Montpellier), now on OpenEdition. http://www.pulm.fr/index.php/collections/horizons-anglophones/pocopages.html She is also Project Leader for the Indian Subcontinent for University Paul Valery Montpellier 3, and Erasmus Coordinator for the English Department

I'm currently working to finish my PhD in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone African fiction, focusing on representations of violence. I am interested in war literature and genocide studies as well as cultural engagements with human rights atrocities.

Kim Evelyn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies at Bowie State University, Maryland's oldest HBCU. She teaches postcolonial, Caribbean, and African diaspora literatures as well as composition. Her research interests include: Caribbean and Caribbean diasporic literature and studies; postcolonial literature and studies; African American literature; first-year writing; research methods; tutoring and mentorship; cultural studies; media, propaganda, and advertising; and race, identity, and citizenship. Her work has appeared in Anthurium, South Atlantic Review, The Caribbean Writer, and Ocean State Review. Ph.D. in English, University of Rhode Island M.A. in English, University of Rhode Island B.A. in Writing, University of Tampa A.A. in Mass Communication, Barbados Community College

I am an assistant professor at the English Studies Programme, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies Universitas Padjadjaran Indonesia with field of expertise in English and American literature, postcolonial, narrative, and feminist studies. I teach American and English literature, American history, prose, and drama to undergraduate students. I earned my Master’s Degree in Postcolonial Studies from the School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury, England in 2002. I was also a participant of an exchange programme funded by the U.S. State Department ,Study in the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) in Contemporary American Literature at the University of Louisville, Kentucky in 2013.

Italian researcher, she hold her PhD in social anthropology, specialized in visual and performance studied under a postcolonial and decolonial theoretical frame. She is feminist and is interested in contemporary visual arts and festivals in the Global South. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0211-5579

Mara Mattoscio is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). She holds a PhD in English Studies from the same institution, and further specialized at the NOGS Gender Studies, Utrecht University. She has edited, together with Megan C. MacDonald, a special section of Feminist Media Studies on “Gender, Migration, and the Media” (2018), and published extensively on Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, Christoph Schlingensief, and Abdellatif Kechiche. Her monograph "Corpi affetti. Il Sudafrica di Nadine Gordimer dalla pagina allo schermo" (Mimesis, 2018) is the first to be entirely dedicated to Gordimer’s active engagement with filmic adaptation.

I am a student of literature and human rights. My current research is about the Holocaust.

A PhD candidate in Burmese History at SOAS, University of London

I recently completed my PhD studies at the University of Manchester, with a thesis titled 'Metropolitan Dissent in Thomas Hardy's Fiction: Class, Gender, Empire'. My PhD research departs from a critical tradition in Hardy studies that has so far tended to interpret empire in the fiction in terms of the colonisation of Wessex. Instead, it focuses on the entanglement of Wessex with overseas imperial spaces, arguing for multiple, and, more importantly, deeply uneven forms of contact with the empire. My other areas of interest include cultural materialism, world-systems theory, theories of nationalism, 'thing' theory, labour history and imperial history. I am currently a sessional lecturer and tutor at the University of Salford, with previous teaching experience at the University of Manchester. I have two published articles with the Thomas Hardy Journal (2009 & 2014), a co-authored piece, 'Empire', in the edited volume Thomas Hardy in Context (CUP, 2013), and three book reviews in the Thomas Hardy Journal (2013) and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2014 & 2015). In 2013-2015, I was a steering committee member of the Manchester Postcolonial Reading Group, which included themed reading sessions, in addition to cross-disciplinary ateliers with leading academics to discuss their work-in-progress. In January 2016, I co-organised the major public-facing Northern Postcolonial Network workshop and twinned symposium on the topics of 'Asylum, Refuge, Migration', jointly hosted by the universities of Salford and Manchester.

Born in Reykjavík, Iceland. Cand. litt. from the University of Copenhagen. Ph.d. Student at the University of Iceland.

Dr. Sharae Deckard is a permanent Lecturer in World Literature (with tenure) in the School of English, University College Dublin. Her current research interests include postcolonial literature and the environment, world-systems and world-ecology approaches to world literature, neoliberalism and the (eco)gothic. She is a collaborator with a with the Warwick Research collective (WReC) investigating the aesthetics of world literature.

My research focuses predominately on postcolonial and Black British writing, especially on Anglo-Caribbean literature and culture in the period since Windrush, as well as masculinity studies, theories and forms of fashioning and staging authorship and subjectivity theories. My teaching and further interests include British and anglophone literature and culture from the early modern period until today, with an emphasis on intertextuality, postcolonial theory, body studies, interculturality, and literary history and theory. Currently, I am working on my Dissertation, provisionally entitled “New Portraits of the Writer (and the Reader)? Negotiating Authorship, Ethnicity, and Masculinity in the Anglo-Caribbean Artist Novel”, in which I examine desires and discourses involved in authorship and writerly subject formation.

Simona Klimkova works as an assistant professor at the Department of English and American Studies of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia where she lectures and teaches courses on British and postcolonial literature. Her research focuses primarily on the area of postcolonial studies and postcolonial writing. Dr. Klimkova is the co-author of the following monographs: Cultural encounters in contemporary literature, Multicultural Awareness: Reading Ethnic Writing and Literature and Culture.

I am a holder of a first-class master’s degree in Intercultural Communication from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and currently teach a number of Social Science and Humanities courses including Intercultural Studies at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi Women's College. I am currently completing my PhD in the field of English and Media which focuses on identity constructs and colonial discourse in Hollywood Science Fiction. I was based in South Korea for seven years working in EFL and after a short period in Madrid, Spain, I moved to Abu Dhabi in August 2014.