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I have research interests in postcolonial literature and theory, nationalism, multiculturalism and the literature of diaspora. I have published essays on Indian literature in English, Gandhi, gender politics in Indian nationalism, modern Arabic narrative genres, modern Islam and fundamentalism, and the politics of the Middle East. I am the author of four books: –Nationalism and Post-Colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) –Amitav Ghosh (Manchester University Press, 2007) –Young British Muslim Voices (Greenwood, 2008) –Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech after Rushdie (Palgrave, 2014)

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.

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.

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.

I have a background in sociology and cultural anthropology, with a PhD in medical anthropology. I teach anthropology and social research methods in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and guest-lecture in the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health.

Christopher has broad interdisciplinary research interests with a geographical focus on Japan. He is principally concerned with how Japan is perceived internationally, examining Japan's "destination image" in the tourism context. He is currently looking at how official tourism campaigns perpetuate certain narratives about Japan, including those that are stereotypical, and is keen to investigate how post-Covid tourism recovery may affect future tourism campaigns. With a background in media and discourse analysis, Christopher is interested in the relationship between tourism and the media, specifically how tourism is mediatised and destinations are "packaged" on screen. The increased media attention on Japan in the UK in the build up to the Rugby World Cup 2019 and 2020 Olympics led to a number of television programmes about Japan being made. Christopher is interested in these as travel narratives and televised "tours", reducing the country down to a selection of key destinations along a prescribed route. He is also interested in historical narratives about Japan, including early foreign "tourism" to Japan and the representation of Japan at world expositions, and how these depictions and understandings of Japan continue to inform views today.

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.

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

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.

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.

Currently researching for a DPhil at the University of Oxford on glottopolitics in the works of B. Kojo Laing and Robert Browning

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 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.

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.”

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.

Lecturer in Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Nayera M. Hassan is an assistant professor of English Literature in the English department, College of Arts, Jouf University, Saudi Arabia. Receiving her Bachelor's degree in 1998, she has been appointed as a demonstrator. She has got her MA in 2005, then a PhD in 2011 in English Literature. She has published a paper titled "From the Traumas of the Caribbean to a Revival of Resistant Literature: A West Indian Discourse " in Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies . Another paper titled "A Prescription for Dislocation at the Time of Globalization: A Study Of Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River" is published in International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (IJELR). She holds an interest in dealing with YA fiction, Postcolonial Studies and the contemporary problems related to minorities and ethnicities.

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

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 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.

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.

Simona Klimkova works as an assistant professor at the Department of English and American Studies of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia where she lectures and teaches courses on British and postcolonial literature. Her research focuses primarily on the area of postcolonial studies and postcolonial writing. Dr. Klimkova is the co-author of the following monographs: Cultural encounters in contemporary literature, Multicultural Awareness: Reading Ethnic Writing and Literature and Culture.

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