Members

I am a PhD student in the Department of Information Studies at UCL. I am working on a qualitative research project that investigates the construction and conceptualisation British Muslim identity in Muslim UK young adult novels and its' readers.

Ana María Sánchez-Arce is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University. She is author of Pedro Almodóvar (MUP, forthcoming 2016), editor of Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature (Routlege, 2014) and co-editor of European Intertexts: Women’s Writing in English in a European Context (Peter Lang, 2005). She is currently working on censorship and citizenship in the UK and preparing a monograph titled Authenticism in Contemporary Literature.

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.

I am a Japanese Studies doctoral candidate at Cardiff University and passed my viva in October, and am now finalising my corrections. My PhD thesis examines British press representation of Japan and its relationship with technology, using critical discourse analysis to identify underlying stereotyping and Orientalist assumptions about the country. I am interested in British depictions of Japan more broadly, and am currently putting together ideas for a project that would take a more historical approach, looking at the influence of the introduction of rail in Japan on British perceptions of Japan and the Japanese.

Researches and teaches at the University of Chester, specialising in Francophone African postcolonial studies, previously senior research fellow at the WISE Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation at Hull University. Head of department of modern languages at Chester from 2009 to 2016, university chair in Area studies from 2016 supporting the development of new research initiatives at the interface between traditional disciplines, particular interests including visual and political cultural studies in Francophone and Hispanophone African and Caribbean postcolonial contexts.

Cristina Şandru currently works as managing editor for The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litecyc.com). She previously taught at Cardiff Metropolitan University, at Northampton, Goldsmiths', UCL and ‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu, Romania. She co-edited the special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing on Postcommunism/Postcolonialism (May 2012) and the collection Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millenium (Routledge 2009). She has published articles and reviews in Critique, Euresis, The Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and English. Her monograph Worlds Apart? A Postcolonial Reading of post-1945 East-Central European Culture was published in August 2012 by Cambridge Scholars. Another two book chapters are forthcoming in 2015, in What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say, eds. Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy and Stuart Murray (London: Routledge), and Postcolonial East-Central Europe: Essays on Literature and Culture, eds Dobrota Pucherova and Robert Gafrik (Amsterdam: Rodopi).

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.

Grace V. S. Chin is Senior Lecturer in English Language Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She specialises in postcolonial Southeast Asian literatures in English, with emphasis on race and gender in contemporary societies and diasporas.

Hena Ahmad is Professor of English at Truman State University, where she teaches Postcolonial Literature and Theory, with research interests in South Asian Diasporic literature. She is the author of Postnational Feminisms: Postcolonial Identities and Cosmopolitanism in the Works of Kamala Markandaya, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Anita Desai (2010); is currently editing a book on Agha Shahid Ali's essays; and is a trustee of the Agha Shahid Ali Literary Trust.

I lecture at the University of Oviedo, where we have been teaching postcolonial studies since 1996. I lead the research group Intersecciones, working on the intersections of postcolonial and gender studies, as well as transnational writing. My own work has centered mostly on Canadian, Caribbean and Australian women writers, as well as diasporas writing in the UK.

I am a PhD student focusing on Postcolonial Literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA I am also an Assistant Professor of English (Currently on Study Leave) at Comilla University, Bangladesh

PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Publications in postcolonial literatures and theory; gender studies; religion and literature. Former President of South Asian Literature Association; and US chapter of ACLALS; currently, executive council of African Literature Association.

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.

KAVITHA GANESAN is a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah and has been primarily working on Malaysian Literature in English with a particular interest in female life-writings. Her current research interest is in areas related to postcolonial indigenous studies. Her recent works have been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2019) and eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics (2020).

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

Louise Bethlehem is Associate Professor in the English Department and the former Chair of the Program in Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her book, Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath (Unisa Press, Brill 2006) was published in Hebrew translation by the dissident Tel Aviv publishing house Resling, in 2011. She has co-edited six volumes in the field of South African literature, African Studies and Cultural Studies including South Africa in the Global Imaginary , co-edited with Leon de Kock and Sonja Laden (Unisa, 2004); Violence & Non-Violence in Africa, co-edited with Pal Ahluwalia and Ruth Ginio (Routledge, 2007); and Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present co-edited with Lynn Schler and Galia Sabar (Routledge, 2010). Most recently, she co-edited a special edition of Critical Arts together with Ashleigh Harris, entitled “Unruly Pedagogies, Migratory Interventions: Unsettling Cultural Studies” (26 [2] 2012). She is a fellow of the Africa Unit of the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In December 2013, Dr. Bethlehem was awarded a prestigious European Research Council Consolidators Grant for a five-year project entitled “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990.”

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

Assistant Professor of Contemporary British and American Literature/ Middle East University PhD: University of Leicester Research Interests: Postcolonial Literature/ Historical Fiction.

I joined the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, as a PhD candidate in October 2019. My research explores the interrelated political, cultural and social dimensions of war memory in Vietnam, providing an ethnographic case study of a state-managed war museum in Ho Chi Minh City. I am a Cumberland Lodge Scholar (2019-2021 cohort). Scholars play an active role in Cumberland Lodge's interdisciplinary conferences, consultations, public lectures and other programmes over two academic years. Training in public speaking and writing for different audiences is provided, along with ongoing mentoring in intellectual leadership. Scholars have the chance to network with senior figures in public life and to participate in, or help to lead discussions with, people of all ages, backgrounds and perspectives that ultimately inform recommendations for practical action and policy change. I am an experienced public policy analyst and political advisor. I was Head of Office to Sian Berry and Caroline Russell, two elected London Assembly Members, leading a team of researchers scrutinising the policies of Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London. I also contributed to an APPG inquiry report on the future of UK-Sudan relations, completed internships with BRAC in Bangladesh and in Amnesty International’s South East Asia team. I completed my BA in East Asian Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield and my MA in International Development at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.

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

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.

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.