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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 am an early career fellow researching world literature and climate change at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, UK.

I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India. My areas of interest are Literary Theory, Postcolonial Literature, Indian English Novel, and the Cinema of Satyajit Ray. I have researched on the novels of Amitav Ghosh and have contributed articles to journals such as ANQ, Postcolonial Text, South Asian Review, Asiatic, NJES, Studies in South Asian Film and Media, etc.

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.

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.

Professor Daniel Kodzo Avorgbedor is currently on post-retirement teaching appointment at the University of Ghana, Legon since 2013. He taught and designed African Diaspora and Ethnomusicology curricula at The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA 1995-2010. His former research grants include H.F. Guggenheim, Lilly Endowment, Wenner-Gren, NEH (team), etc. He was editor of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, and contributed essays in several encyclopedias and peer-reviewed journals and served as President of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Regional Representative for IAUES, and National Liaison for Ghana for ICTM. Current research interests include urban ethnomusicology with emphasis on symbiotic interchange between rural and urban dynamics on Anlo-Ewe performance culture, urban spatio-temporal realities and performance traditions as mechanisms of accommodation among the urban Anlo-Ewe, Re-envisioning the concept of voluntary association in the contexts of secular urban Anlo-Ewe associations and welfare institutions of Christian churches.

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'.

4th year phd candidate at the university of liverpool.

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.

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

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

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.

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

PhD student at Lancaster University

Dr. Ghenim Neema is a professor of English literature at the University Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran, Algeria. She has been in the University of Louisville, Kentucky as a "Fulbright scholar" in contemporary American literature. Her main research focuses on Sufism in West Algeria and Transcendentalism in the East of the United States. She is also interested in the metaphor and inter-religious dialogue within diverse ethnic groups.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.