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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am a PhD student at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna.