Contributors
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KATHIE BIRAT is Emeritus Professor of American, African American, and Afro-Caribbean literature at the University of Lorraine. With Brigitte Zaugg, she is coeditor of Literature and Spirituality in the English-Speaking World (Peter Lang 2014), a collection of essays. She has also published a number of essays devoted to such writers as Caryl Phillips, Fred D’Aguiar, Earl Lovelace, Robert Antoni, and other writers from the English-speaking Caribbean.
ELLEKE BOEHMER, a native of South Africa, is professor of world literature in English and Director of the Oxford Research Centre in Humanities at the University of Oxford, UK. She is author and editor of a number of academic texts, including Colonial and Post-colonial Literature (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890–1920 (2002), J.M. Coetzee in Writing and Theory (2009), Terror and the Postcolonial (2009), Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2008), and Indian Arrivals 1870–1915: Networks of Empire (2015). She is also known for her novels and short stories, Screens Against the Sky (short-listed David Hyam Prize, 1990), Bloodlines (shortlisted SANLAM prize), Nile Baby (2008), The Shouting in the Dark (2015), and Sharmilla and Other Portraits (short stories, 2010). She is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series, and was an International Man Booker judge 2015.
ROSEMARY CLUNIE, born in Scotland, UK, is a painter, printmaker, and video artist who has exhibited at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, UK; ADAC, St. Germain-les-Corbeil, France; and London in galleries, including Millinery Works, Mall Galleries, Maddox Gallery, Odette Gilbert, Gavin Graham Gallery, and International Maritime Organisation.
LISA CONNELL is an assistant professor of French at the University of West Georgia. Her research and teaching interests include postcolonial theory, Francophone women writers, and autobiography, with a focus on representations of colonial- and post-colonial-era schooling, as represented in her publications on the works of Maryse Condé, Assia Djebar, Gisèle Pineau, and Annie Ernaux.
MARIACONCETTA COSTANTINI is Professor of English at G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, where she teaches English literature and Anglophone literature. She has published volumes, articles, and book chapters on Victorian literature and culture. Her publications also include essays on contemporary fiction and Anglophone writers, with particular attention to African authors (Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, and Dennis Brutus).
ELENI COUNDOURIOTIS is Professor of English and comparative literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut where she also directs the Research Program on Humanitarianism of the Human Rights Institute. She is author of Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel (1999) and The People’s Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony (2014). Her work on human rights and literature has appeared in Human Rights Quarterly, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development, and the Journal of Human of Rights. [End Page 1202]
JOSÉ-SANTIAGO FERNÁNDEZ-VÁZQUEZ is a senior lecturer at the Universidad de Alcalá in Madrid, Spain. His essays have appeared in Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and World Literature Written in English. He has published two book-length studies on the postcolonial Bildungsroman and has coedited, with Fernando Galván, a critical edition of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.
STAN GALLOWAY teaches English at Bridgewater College (VA). His reviews of poetry have appeared in such places as Paterson Literary Review, Christianity & Literature, and New Orleans Review. He also writes poetry and literary criticism, including Just Married (2013) and The Teenage Tarzan (2010).
VANESSA GUIGNERY is Professor of contemporary English and postcolonial literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon (France) and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has been a Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, several times since 2006. She is the author of Seeing and Being: Ben Okri’s The Famished Road (2012) and the editor of The Famished Road: Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands (2013). Her books on contemporary British writers include The Fiction of Julian Barnes (2006), This Is Not Fiction: The True Novels of B.S. Johnson (2009), and Jonathan Coe (2015). She has edited a dozen collections...
