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Sahar Amer (PhD, Yale University) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Arabic Language and Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in Arab and Muslim societies, on comparative, cross-cultural relations between Arab Muslim societies and the West, and on postcolonial identities. She is especially interested in the notion of borders (cultural, linguistic, historical, and geographic), not as elements of separation and division, but rather as fluid spaces of cultural exchange, adaptation and collaboration. She is the author of What Is Veiling? (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014); Crossing Borders: Love between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 Aldo & Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies by the Modern Languages Association of America; and (in French) Ésope au féminin: Marie de France et la politique de l’interculturalité (Rodopi, 1999).

Laura Doyle is Professor of English at University of Massachusetts Amherst and Co-director of the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project. Her publications include Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (Oxford UP, 1994), and Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940 (Duke UP, 2008), as well as the edited collections, Geomodernisms (with Laura Winkiel) (Indiana UP, 2005) and Bodies of Resistance: New Phenomenologies of Politics, Agency, and Resistance (Northwestern UP, 2001). Doyle has edited several special journal issues, including an issue of Modern Fiction Studies on ʻInter-imperiality’ (September 2018); and she co-edits the Edinburgh UP series, ‘Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures’, and the ‘Global Circulation Project’ at Literature Compass. Her monograph on inter-imperiality will appear in 2019.

Esther S. Klein is a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney’s School of Languages and Cultures, and currently a visiting academic in the Philosophy department at the Australian National University. Her main areas of specialty are ancient and medieval Chinese thought and historiography. She received her PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and is the author of Reading Sima Qian from Han to Song: The Father of History in Pre-Modern China, forthcoming from Brill in 2019. Her research interests include concepts of authorship and textual adaptation, epistemology in the pre-modern Chinese historiographical context, and the processes by which philosophical ideas developed and shifted in pre-modern China.

Dr Hab. Ulrich Timme Kragh is Visiting Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Since 2014, he has been the Principal Investigator of the ERC research project ‘Narrative Modes of Historical Discourse in Asia’. He has authored several articles on theory of history and books on religious history in medieval Asia, including Early Buddhist Theories of Action and Result (Vienna University, 2006), The Foundation for Yoga Practitioners (Harvard University, 2013), and Tibetan Yoga and Mysticism (International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2015).

Alexus McLeod is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Asian/Asian-American Studies at the University of Connecticut. He works in the area of Comparative Philosophy, primarily on the early Chinese, Indian, and Mesoamerican traditions. His most recent books are Philosophy of the Ancient Maya: Lords of Time (Lexington Books, 2017) and The Philosophical Thought of Wang Chong (Springer, 2018). He is currently working on a book on transcendence and substance in early Chinese philosophy (co-authored with Joshua Brown), as well as a book on madness and self-cultivation in early China.

Kate Perillo is a doctoral candidate in English literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research spans many fields and time periods, most notably global Anglophone modernisms, postcolonial studies, and urban studies. Her dissertation project, The Speculative City, explores spatiotemporalities of twentieth-century urban fiction, with particular attention to how writers address relationships between the built environment and future-oriented processes of empire and global capitalism.

Lynn Ramey is professor of French at Vanderbilt University where she specializes in medieval French literature and media studies. As an undergraduate she studied both French culture and engineering, but in the end opted for French studies in graduate school. Ramey is the author of Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages (UP of Florida...

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