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 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.

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.

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'.

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.

Kingsley Oluchi Ugwuanyi teaches English at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His research interests cut across sociolinguistics, world Englishes, and applied linguistics. He has also taught and published works in discourse analysis and Nigerian literature. He recently completed his doctoral research on the English language ownership perceptions of speakers of Nigerian English at Northumbria University.

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.

Lecturer in Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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.

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

A Lifestyle Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Personal Development Trainer by profession, Seetha is an English research student (Distance) with the University of Exeter (UK). She has co-authored two motivational books, 'Your Dose of Motivation' published in 2020 and 'Women Who Inspire' in 2021.

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