Editorial & programming

New scholars, new ecologies: We develop quarterly programmes collectively, reaching out to contacts around the world to present for reading groups and write for publication.

This work is articulated within three teams: The Co-editors, Editorial Board and Programming Board.

Our team members are located across the world and include practitioners, academics and policy makers. They have joined through an open membership and nominate both themselves and others into these positions.

New formats that challenge existing disciplinary and praxical boundaries are celebrated. Reach out to our Co-editors, if interested in joining us.

Co-editors

Dr Claire French

Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham

Claire is a performance-maker, researcher and lecturer exploring multilingual documentary theatre and performance. She has developed work with new migrants, the diaspora, Indigenous training actors... (click for full bio)

Asanda Ngoasheng

Independent speaker, political analyst and academic

Asanda Ngoasheng is a speaker, political analyst, diversity expert, curriculum developer and academic... (click for full bio)

Dr Teodora Todorova

Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Warwick

Dr Teodora Todorova is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Warwick. She has a PhD in Critical Theory from the University of Nottingham, has published scholarship on decolonial solidarity in Palestine-Israel, and teaches State Crime, Human Rights and Global Wrongs as well as qualitative research design and philosophies of social science... (click for full bio)

Editorial board

Dr Giulia Champion

Anniversary Fellow, University of Southampton

Dr Giulia Champion is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her project focuses on the legalisation of deep-sea mining, engagement with and representations of the seabed and deep-sea in different communities... (click for full bio)

Dr Ashraf Kunnummal

Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies

Dr Ashraf Kunnummal is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Ashraf finished his PhD from the Department of Religion Studies, University of Johannesburg, titled "A Critical Decolonial Reading of Liberation,... (click for full bio)

Dr Berenike Jung

Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Southampton

Berenike is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. Previously, she taught film and media at King's College London, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the University of Tübingen in Germany. She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick in 2016; her monograph The Invisibilities of Torture: The Presence of Absence in US and Chilean Cinema and Television was... (click for full bio)

Programming board

Dr Ann Ang

Assistant Professor, English Literature, Nanyang Technological University

Dr Ann Ang is an Assistant Professor in English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She recently completed my DPhil in postcolonial and world literature at Wadham College, Oxford... (click for full bio)

Dr Sakiru Adebayo

Assistant Professor of African literature at the University of British Columbia

Dr Sakiru Adebayo is an assistant professor of African literature in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is the author of Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa... (click for full bio)

Dr Josefine Baark

Art historian and museologist

Dr Josefine Baark works in the intersection between global art history and museology with a special focus on the relationship between aesthetics, technology and temporality in the 18th century. With a PhD in Art History from the University of Cambridge and a post-doctoral career in Denmark, the UK, Hungary and Hong Kong... (click for full bio)

Dr Nazry Bahrawi

Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Dr Nazry Bahrawi specialises in the decolonial work of articulating Malay-Indonesian cultural modes of thought and ‘theory’ expressed through literature, film and art. He is currently researching the intersections between race and animal narratives in maritime Southeast Asia and have published on literary Islam and translation studies in the region... (click for full bio)

Dr Nadeen Dakkak

Lecturer, World and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Exeter

Dr Nadeen Dakkak completed a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She was an Early Career Fellow at Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study in 2020-2021 and... (click for full bio)

Dr Rina Garcia Chua

Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University

Rina is a creative and critical scholar from the Philippines who is currently based in unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ of the syilx / Okanagan peoples. She has been a 2022-2023 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, a 2023 Environmental Humanities Institute Fellow at Dartmouth, and she received her PhD from the University of British Columbia... (click for full bio)

Dr Somak Biswas

Early Career Research Fellow, University of Warwick

Dr Somak Biswas is a historian of race, sexuality and migration, focusing on South Asia and Britain. He completed his PhD from the University of Warwick, UK. Prior to his doctorate, Somak did his Masters and M.Phil at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi... (click for full bio)

Dr Xolisa Guzula

Senior Lecturer in multiliteracies education, University of Cape Town

Dr Xolisa Guzula is an early literacy specialist with interests in biliteracy development; emergent literacy; bi/multilingual education; language and literacy as social practice; multi-literacies; multi-modality; third spaces and bilingual children's literature... (click for full bio)

Maria Jose Recalde-Vela

PhD candidate, Tilburg Law School

Maria is an Ecuadorian/Honduran PhD candidate at the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Law school, The Netherlands. She is part of the European (joint) Doctorate on Law & Development (EDOLAD) program. Her PhD project investigates the manner in which inclusion is conceptualized in the field of statelessness through the practice of human rights and international development actors... (click for full bio)

Dr Isabel Margarita Nuñez Salazar

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Manchester

Dr Isabel Margarita Nuñez Salazar is a passionate sociologist and historian researching the fields of families, relationships, intimacies and communities, looking at the intersections on class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity in the Global South... (click for full bio)

Dr Luca Peretti

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Luca Peretti's current research project investigates cultural exchanges between Italy and the Third World at the peak of the anticolonial era (late 1950s-early 1970s). It focuses on cinema alongside other cultural forms and media practices, such as photography, exhibitions, television... (click for full bio)

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