Graham Huggan - The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

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GRAHAM HUGGAN

GRAHAM HUGGAN

ANN LAURA STOLER

TYLER STOVALL

PATRICIA SEED

WALTER D. MIGNOLO

SALMAN SAYYID

TIMOTHY BRENNAN

STEPHEN HOWE

GRAHAM HUGGAN

STEPHEN MORTON

PRIYAMVADA GOPAL

WALEED HAZBUN

JOANNE SHARP

DAVID FARRIER AND PATRICIA TUITT

JO SMITH AND STEPHEN TURNER

PETER HALLWARD

GRAHAM HUGGAN

ELLEKE BOEHMER

NEIL LAZARUS

SUSAN BASSNETT

MICHAEL ROTHBERG

SIMON FEATHERSTONE

POOJA RANGAN AND REY CHOW

LEELA GANDHI

GRAHAM HUGGAN

DIANA BRYDON

JOHN MCLEOD

DANE KENNEDY

BARRY HINDESS

ANANDA ABEYSEKARA

DANA MOUNT AND SUSIE OBRIEN

DAVID ATTWELL

GRAHAM HUGGAN

NIKITA DHAWAN AND SHALINI RANDERIA

DANIEL VUKOVICH

MICHELLE KEOWN AND STUART MURRAY

ATO QUAYSON

CHARLES FORSDICK

FRANK SCHULZE-ENGLER

ALI BEHDAD

STEPHEN SLEMON

Ananda Abeysekara is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech (US). He is the author of The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures (2008).

David Attwell, South African by birth, is Professor of English at the University of York (UK). He has published widely on J. M. Coetzee. His other books include Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black Literary History (2005) and The Cambridge History of South African Literature, co-edited with Derek Attridge.

Susan Bassnett is an international expert on translation studies and holds a Chair in Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick (UK). With Harish Trivedi, she edited Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice (1999), and since then she has published numerous books and articles on aspects of translation, comparative and world literature. She is also well known as a journalist and writer.

Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Chair of the English Department at UCLA (US). He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1994) and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the US (2001). He is the co-editor (with Dominic Thomas) of A Companion to Comparative Literature (2011), and is currently completing a manuscript on Orientalist photography.

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford (UK) and Professorial Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College. Among her publications are Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial 18901920 (2002), Stories of Women (2005), and the biography Nelson Mandela (2008). She is also the editor of numerous volumes and the author of four acclaimed novels.

Timothy Brennan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota (US). He is the author most recently of Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (2006) and Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (2008). He is currently at work on a two-volume study entitled Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel and the Colonies and Avant-Gardes, Colonies, and Communists: Homiletic Realism and Imperial Form.

Diana Brydon is Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies and Professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba (Canada). She is currently investigating transnational literacies and global democracy. Her co-edited book (with Marta Dvorak), Crosstalk: Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, appeared in 2012.

Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University (US), and serves on the board of around forty journals, book series, and research centres worldwide. Her scholarly writings, which have appeared in ten languages, include The Rey Chow Reader (2010) and Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture (2012).

Nikita Dhawan is Junior Professor of Political Science for Gender/Postcolonial Studies and Director of the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany). Her publications include Impossible Speech: On the Politics of Silence and Violence (2007) and Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and Democracy in a Postcolonial World (ed., 2013).

David Farrier is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh (UK). He is the author of Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London (2007) and Postcolonial Asylum: Seeking Sanctuary Before the Law (2011). He is also the editor of a special issue of Moving Worlds (12.2) on asylum narratives.

Simon Featherstone teaches Drama at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK). He is the author of Postcolonial Cultures (2005) and Englishness: Twentieth-Century Popular Culture and the Forming of English Identity (2009).

Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool (UK). A specialist in the fields of travel writing, slavery, postcolonial literature, and French colonial history, he is the author of Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity (2000) and Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures