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New scholars, new ecologies.

Our members develop quarterly programmes collectively, reaching out to contacts around the world. There is an open membership and you don’t have to be a specific type of researcher or academic to join. Members are open to new formats that challenge existing disciplinary and praxical boundaries. Reach out to the current Editor, Claire French, if interested in joining.

Members sorted alphabetically by surname.

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 Ann Ang

Lecturer, Education, Nanyang Technological University

Dr Ann Ang is Lecturer 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 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 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 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 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 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 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)

Dr Martha Gayoye

Lecturer in Law, Keele University

Dr Martha Gayoye is a socio-legal scholar, with a strong commitment to empirically grounded research that advances social justice. She is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya, having trained at Moi University... (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 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)

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 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)

Dr Teodora Todorova

Teaching Fellow 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)

Dr Doro Wiese

WIRL Research Fellow, University of Warwick

Dr Doro Wiese is a WIRL research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. Facilitated by various grants such as a Marie Sklodowska Curie scholarship of the European Union, she was trained in literary studies... (click for full bio)

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