Members

Caroline’s research centres on contemporary South Asian literature in English and in translation, and on Indian visual culture and film, with specific interests in narratives urban modernity, secularism, neoliberalism and economic liberalization in contemporary India, and in the poetics and politics of postcolonial spectrality. She is currently completing a monograph exploring literary and visual representations of Bombay/Mumbai (contracted to Liverpool University Press). She is editor of ‘Postcolonial Cities: South Asia’, a special issue of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings (2013) and co-editor with Claire Chambers of Imagining Muslims of South Asia and the Diaspora (2014), and has published widely on South Asian Literature, postcolonial cities, and spectrality in journals such as Textual Practice, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and in edited collections.

Cathy Covell Waegner taught in the English Department of the University of Siegen in Germany until her retirement in July 2013. She obtained degrees from the College of William & Mary (BA) and the University of Virginia (MA, PhD). In addition to her work on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, she has published on transculturality in the ethnic bildungsroman, minstrelsy, AfroAsian “postmodernist passing,” 400 years after Jamestown, “hybrid tropes” in film, and the interaction between American and European cultural phenomena. Cathy Waegner edited a volume for the Michigan State University Press's American Indian Studies Series titled Mediating Indianness (2015; www.mediatingindianness.com). Waegner co-edited a project volume with Norfolk State University scholars, Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other: “From-Heres” and “Come-Heres” in Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia (2011), as well as, with colleagues from Université d’Orléans, Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas (2002). She served as MESEA (Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) treasurer for four years. Her current research focuses on contemporary Native American literature, palimpsestic trajectories on the “ethnic shore,” and new forms of diaspora.

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.

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.

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'.

Since 2018, PhD Student for German Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy. My aim is studying the textes of the peripheries of the former Habsburg's Empire through a postcolonial view.

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.

Jose Varghese is a writer/editor/translator/artist from India who teaches English at Jazan University, KSA. He had worked previously at SH College, Thevara, and is the founder and chief editor of Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts. He is also the chief editor of Strands Publishers and judges the Strands International Short Fiction Prizes. His first book, "Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems" was listed in Grace Cavalieri's Best Reading for Fall 2009, Montserrat Review. His poems and short stories have appeared in the journals/anthologies The Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013 (UK), Unthology (UK), Unveiled (UK), 10RED (UK), Into The Void (UK), The River Muse (USA), Chandrabhaga (India), Kavya Bharati (India), Postcolonial Text (Canada), Muse India (India), Re-Markings (India), Dusun (Malaysia), Flash Fiction Magazine (USA), Mulberry Fork Review (USA), The Four Quarters Magazine (India) and On Viewless Wings vol.1, 2 and 3 (California). He was the winner of The River Muse 2013 Spring Poetry Contest, USA, a finalist in The Beverly International Prize, UK, for his short fiction manuscript, shortlisted twice in the Eyewear Fortnight Poetry Prize, a runner up in the Salt Flash Fiction Prize 2013, UK, a second prize winner in the Wordweavers Flash Fiction Prize 2012 and his poem was commended in Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize 2014. His collection of short stories, 'In/Sane' is forthcoming. He has done research in Post-Colonial Fiction and is currently working on Hanif Kureishi's works. of fiction. He was a writer for Thresholds: The International Short Story Forum, Chichester University, UK. He was a participating writer at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2012 and Vienna International Conference on the Short Story in English, and the Lisbon International Conference on the Short Story in English 2018.

JMB teaches English and Postcolonial Literatures. Her research interests lie in Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean literatures, diaspora and migration literatures, and more recently Dalit literatures. She often organizes international conferences. http://pays-anglophones.upv.univ-montp3.fr She is General editor of the series PoCoPages: http://www.pulm.fr/index.php/collections/horizons-anglophones/pocopages.html She was Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded Research Network series on 'Writing, Analyzing, Translating Dalit Literature' (2014-16): https://dalitliterature.wordpress.com

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Prashant Maurya is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He has obtained his UG and PG degrees in English from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. His areas of interest are Literature & History, Historical Fiction, Film & Literature, and Indian Writing in English. He is also a Teaching Assistant at his Institute and engages Communicative English classes of undergraduate students at the first-year level.

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.

Roberto Interdonato is a postgraduate student at the University of Venice in "Language, Literature and Postcolonial Studies" (German Studies). He's currently researching for his M. A. thesis in the field of contemporary German theatre, with a particular reference to Heiner Müller and his reception of ancient culture. He holds a B. A. in English, German and Slavonic Studies from the University of Messina and attended the Karls-Eberhard-Universität of Tübingen as an Erasmus+ student. He's member of the European Association for Studies for Literature, Culture and Environment and of the Postcolonial Studies Association.

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.

Sourit Bhattacharya is a second year PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He works in historical crisis and literary realism in the post-independent Indian novel. His PhD is funded by the Chancellor's International Scholarship and is being co-supervised by Prof Neil Lazarus and Prof Pablo Mukherjee. Sourit has a BA and MA in English from Presidency College, University of Calcutta and Jadavpur University, and an MPhil in Social Sciences from CSSSC, Jadavpur University. Before joining Warwick, he taught as part time faculty in English at Rani Birla Girls' College (University of Calcutta). Sourit's broader areas of interest include colonial and postcolonial studies, especially South Asia and Southern Africa, world literature, environmental studies, materialist aesthetics, and literary representations of everyday. He has presented conference papers and published on related topics in edited books and peer-reviewed journals. He also co-edits Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry. A list of his publications can be tracked at https://warwick.academia.edu/SouritBhattacharya

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.