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Aidan Bracebridge

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Alessandra Di Pietro
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Alessandra Di Pietro is a PhD student in English and American Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her research interests include West African Literature, Anglophone Literatures, Postcolonial Theory and Gender Studies.
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Angelique Golding
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I graduated from Goldsmiths with an MA in Black British Writing in January 2020. In May 2020 I was awarded LAHP AHRC funding to undertake a collaborative PhD studentship with QMUL, Wasafiri Magazine and the British Library. My research will explore the background and history of Wasafiri, a ‘little magazine’ known since the early 1980s for its pioneering role in providing a critical forum and platform for Britain’s black, Asian and minority ethnic writers. Drawing on unique archival sources, now housed in the British Library Contemporary Collections and not as yet publicly available, the particular history of this magazine will act as a paradigm to offer broader insights into the material conditions affecting the production, publication and reception of BAME writing in Britain from the fraught era of Thatcherism in the 1980s to the present.
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Anna Kemball

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Arna Dirghangi
Postgraduate Literature Student.
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I am a postgraduate English Literature student hoping to pursue a career in research and lectureship. I have ranked second in my school during the AISSCE 2018 with 96% and stood First Class First in BA English Honours from Presidency University, Kolkata, with a GPA of 8.21 in 2021. I have presented, so far, seven papers in national and international conferences and actively taken part in six social/academic internships with Indian organisations. I also have articles/blogs and translations published under my name. My academic research areas include Global Postcolonial Theory and Criticism and the Partitions of India and Bengal. I am also interested in working on Translation Studies. I am actively engaged in content writing and translation.
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Ashik Kadambodan

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Augustine Chay

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Augustine Chay is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests lie at the intersections of (post)colonial trauma studies, memory studies, and Cold War Decolonisation. His work has been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
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Avani Ashtekar

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Ayesha Siddiqa

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Assistant Professor
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Chiara Xausa

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Christopher De Shield

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CLAIRE CHAMBERS
Lecturer in Global Literature
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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.
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Dorota Kołodziejczyk

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Emily Kate Timms

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Eri Kobayashi

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ESHA SIL
Executive Committee Member and Email Bulletin Coordinator, 2017-Present, Postcolonial Studies Association. Convention Committee Member, 2016-17, Postcolonial Studies Association. Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-14, Zukunftsphilologie Programme, Freie Universität Berlin.
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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'.
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Frances Grahl

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Georgia Nasseh

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GRACE V S CHIN
Senior lecturer
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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.
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HELEN COUSINS
Reader in Postcolonial Literature
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My current research interests are in Black British writing around themes of migration and race. My PhD research was in African women's writing and I still maintain an interest in African literature. Forthcoming publications include a chapter in Blackness in Britain (Routledge 2016) and one in “Telling it Slant”: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi (Sussex Academic Press, 2016). I am a founder member of the Black British Women Writers Network
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Hisham Bustani

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Izzy Bartley

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Jennifer Gray

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DR JENNIFER GRAY teaches Modern British and Contemporary Anglophone literature as a tenured assistant professor at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, USA. From 1999-2018, she taught Composition and Sophomore Literature courses at TTU. In 2018, she received her PhD from Middle Tennessee State University and continued her career at TTU. In April 2021 her first book, Culinary Diplomacy’s Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women, was published by Rowman & Littlefield. Dr. Gray's research interests include immigration, postcolonial theory, British literature 1900-1950, and Contemporary Black British, Asian, and Minority Ethnic literatures.
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Jessica Sanfilippo Schulz

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Kaori Nagai
Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Kent
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KAREN D'SOUZA

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Kavitha Ganesan
Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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I am a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah and have been primarily working on Malaysian Literature in English with a particular interest in female life-writings. I have a keen interest in studies related to national discourse and the ways in which the norms and limits of gender contest dominant narratives about the nation. Along this line of inquiry, my research includes an investigation of ethnicity/race, diaspora, and transnationalism as compounding issues in the debate leading to nationalism and national identity. My article on contemporary nature writings by Malaysian female life-writers of multi-ethnic origin has been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2019). My work on the Malaysian Indian life-writer who straddles both the English and Tamil literary writing tradition has been published in Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities in February 2022.
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kristiawan indriyanto

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Kyle Woodend

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LOUISE BETHLEHEM
Associate Professor HUJI
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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.”
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Luca Raimondi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrdand
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Madhurima Sen

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I am a postgraduate research student at the University of Oxford, studying for a DPhil in English. My research is on literature related to and inspired by the 1971 Bangladesh war. My aim is to bring into conversation war writings from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India. My primary fields of work are postcolonial studies and literature related to violent conflicts. A major part of my research involves translating texts from Bengali and Urdu to English.
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Maria Morelli
Research Fellow
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I am a scholar in contemporary women’s writing with a broad international background and a particular interest in trans-disciplinary research. I am a member of the Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster based at De Montfort University, and a newly appointed member of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, CCWW, London. From 2018-2021 I held the position of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the Departments of Modern Italian Studies and Cultural Heritage at the University of Milan, Italy. In the past four years I have been acting as Expert Evaluator for the European Commission for the Humanities and Social Sciences cluster, assisting in the evaluation of project proposals under the main EU funding schemes. Currently, I am working on an interdisciplinary and collaborative research project which I would be happy to implement at SOAS across several departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities. Using gender as an analytical category, this project will seek to propose a new paradigm influencing the way in which we understand postcolonial literary studies. It will do so by countering the identification of postcolonial literature as Anglo-centric, instead highlighting the multilingualism and multiculturalism of ‘minor’— in the sense of canonically peripheral — European literatures. Focusing on the socio-cultural processes of inclusion and exclusion through a postcolonial and feminist perspective, it will look at scarcely studied national literatures, with the aim of seeking out patterns and comparisons, and proposing new methodologies that adopt a transnational lens across national literatures and disciplines. These methodologies will connect Postcolonial, European, and Women’s Studies, while opening up new intersections with the field of Trauma Studies in terms of the textual expression of forms of trauma linked to exile, migration or inter-generational relationships/connections. This new strand of research links into, whilst also develops, the research practice I have thus far conducted on ‘minority’ feminist and ‘queer’ literatures and their shared expression of exclusion and non-assimilationism in relation to the canonical paradigms.
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Marta Widy-Behiesse
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Md Mujib Ullah

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Muzna Rahman
Lecturer
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Lecturer in Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Nadia Kiwan

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Paul Veyret

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PAULINE DODGSON-KATIYO

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Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo has held a number of posts in UK higher education including Head of English at Newman University and Dean of the School of Arts and Letters at Anglia Ruskin University. She researches and writes on African literature, especially Zimbabwean and Somali, and contemporary women's writing.
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Ponpavi Sangsuradej

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

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RACHEL FOX

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Rawan Althunyan

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Rebecca Anastasi

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Rebecca Blanchard
Teaching and Research Associate (University of Tours)
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REHANA AHMED

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Rena Jackson
Sessional Lecturer and Tutor
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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.
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Ricardo Gonsalves

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RIM MAKNI-BEJAR

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Sam Rye

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Samantha Williams-Gray

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Seham Arishi

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SHARAE DECKARD
Lecturer in World Literature
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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.
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Shefali Banerji
PhD Researcher | University of Vienna
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I am a Ph.D. Researcher working in the field of Performance Poetry and Postcolonial Studies. I am currently associated with the Poetry Off the Page project at the University of Vienna, where my subproject is jointly supervised at Goldsmiths London, looking at the origin, development, and influences of the British spoken-word play. Previously, I was a Ph.D. Student at Trinity College Dublin, working on the short stories of Jean Rhys. Broadly, my research interests also include Modern and Contemporary (Print) Poetry, Global (South) Anglophone Literatures, and Gender + Queer Studies.
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Shivani Rajkomar
Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Mauritius
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Siti Nuraishah Ahmad
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia
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Sophia Ioannides

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SUBHAM GHOSH
PhD Student
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I am a PhD student at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna.
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Tamar Steinitz
Senior Lecturer in English and World Literature
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Thomas Houlton

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Trang Dang

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TREASA DELOUGHRY

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Vivek Santayana

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Waiyee Loh

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Y Ong

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Zohra Mehellou
Assistant Professor
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Zulfqar Hyder
Assistant Professor
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