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Adélékè Adék is Humanities Distinguished Professor, English Department, at The Ohio State University. His primary research interests are Anglophone African literatures, pre‐1965 African American literature, and Yorubaphone culture and literature. His Arts of Being Yoruba: Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric (2017/2019) won the Best Book of the Year: Scholarship award of the African Literature Association. For Fagunwa Study Group, he co‐edited (with Akin Adéṣkàn) Celebrating D. O. Fagunwa: Aspects of African and World Literary History (2017), a selection for Top 20 Book of the Year List in Nigeria. His edition of the Rev. Philip Quaque’s missionary letters, Letters to London: 1765–1811, was published in 2017. Adék is also the author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (1998) and The Slave’s Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature (2005). Adék’s main research focus at the present time is on the completion of a book on speech acts in poetry.

Fazia Aïtel is currently Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Claremont McKenna College. Her research interests are African and especially North African literature, culture, and cinema as well as Amazigh studies, women’s writing, and immigration. Her publications include a co‐edited volume (with Valérie Orlando) on Algerian writer Nabile Farès, L’Exilé, l’étranger et l’autre dans les œuvres de Nabile Farès (2018). In 2014, she published We Are Imazighen: The Development of Algerian Berber Identity in Twentieth‐Century Literature and Culture 1930 to 2000. Aïtell also published articles on Algerian film (“Des images pour le dire: périple au cœur du silence algérien dans Le Repenti de Merzak Allouache”) and literature (“Kabylgeria or How to Write Algeria”). She is currently working on a book project on Amazigh women and the Algerian war.

Ahmed Idrissi Alami is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University. In his research, he explores questions of cultural identity, migrancy, and constructions of Arab/Muslim subjectivities through North African, Middle Eastern, and Arab diasporic cultural production. He also examines issues of Islam, modernity, and reform within a global cultural context. In addition to his book Mutual Othering: Islam, Modernity, and the Politics of Cross‐Cultural Encounters in Pre‐Colonial Moroccan and European Travel Writing (2013), his articles have appeared in a variety of journals, including Journal of North African Studies, Journal of Contemporary Thought, Middle Eastern Literatures, South Central Review, and William & Mary Quarterly. Professor Idrissi Alami is currently working on research projects that explore the Maghreb through transatlantic discourse and culture, Arab and Muslim diasporic narratives, and nation and nationalism in Arabic literature and culture.

Peter Blair studied at the Universities of Oxford and York, completing some of his doctoral research at the University of KwaZulu‐Natal, Durban. He is now Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Chester. He has two main research interests: South African literature, particularly the liberal and postliberal Anglophone novel, and flash fiction (very short stories). These have recently come together in a project on post‐apartheid flash. His publications include contributions to The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012), The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies (Wiley‐Blackwell, 2016), and the journals Modern Fiction Studies, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. He is founding co‐editor of Flash: The International Short‐Short Story Magazine.

Eleni Coundouriotis is Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her scholarship focuses on the engagement of literature with history in the postcolonial novel and human rights narratives. She is the author of Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel (1999) and The People’s Right to the Novel: War Fiction in the Postcolony (2014). She is currently completing a monograph on “Narrating Human Rights in Africa.”

yasser elhariry is Associate Professor at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses in French, Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, and Creative Writing. The recipient of the William Riley Parker Prize, he is the author of Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation and the Postfrancophone Lyric (2017), co‐editor of Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Aesthetics and Deployments of a Sea in Crisis (2018), and guest editor of the special issue of Expressions maghrébines on Cultures du mysticisme (2017). His writing appears in PMLA, New Literary History, Yale French Studies, French Forum, Parade sauvage, Contemporary French Civilization, Francosphères, and in several edited volumes.

Tewodros Gebre is Associate Professor of Ethiopian Literature at Addis Ababa University. He is the author of Interdisciplinary Reading of Literature (Beyne‐Disiplinawi YeSine Tshuf Nibab in Amharic, 2009). His essays have appeared in several publications, including Callaloo, North East Africa Studies, and Journal of Ethiopian Studies. He is currently working on medical humanities and the interpenetration of verbal and visual arts.

Olakunle George is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Brown University. His academic interests are in African Literary and Cultural Studies, Black Atlantic Internationalism, and Anglophone Postcolonial Studies. He was Associate Editor of Wiley‐Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of the Novel (2011; paperback 2014), with Susan Hegeman, Efraín Kristal, and Peter M. Logan, General Editor. He is author of African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race (2017) and Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters (2003).

Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English at Stockholm University. His research interests include Southern African literature in English and Portuguese, Brazilian literature, postcolonial theory, translation theory, and theories of world literature. He is the author of Transnationalism in Southern African Literature (2009), co‐author (with Mads Rosendahl Thomsen) of Literature and the World (2020), and co‐editor of The De Gruyter Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures (2020).

Jeanne‐Marie Jackson is Assistant Professor of World Anglophone Literature at Johns Hopkins and received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale. Her first book is South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation (2015), and her second, The African Novel of Ideas, is currently in press. In addition to her publications in a wide range of academic and public‐facing venues, she is also editor of Modernism/modernity’s “Field Reports” blog.

Cilas Kemedjio is Frederick Douglass Professor at the University of Rochester, NY, where he is Professor of French and Francophone Studies. His contributions in the fields of Caribbean and African literature and culture, postcolonial theory, and transnational black studies have earned him both national and international recognition. He is the author of two monographs, one edited volume, and over sixty articles. He is author of Maryse Condé, Édouard Glissant et la malédiction de la théorie (1999) and Mongo Beti: le combattant fatigué. Une biographie intellectuelle (2013). His edited volume is entitled Mémoires des années de braise. La grève estudiantine de 1991 expliquée/Remember the Flame: White Papers from the 1991 Yaoundé University Strikes (2013). His current project seeks to unearth the genealogies of humanitarian interventions in Africa, and their attendant uneasy connections with the multilayered sites of power. The provisional title of this project is “Ota Benga and the Fictions of Humanitarianism.”

Lokangaka Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C. P. Corse Professor of English and a former Chair of the University of Vermont Department of English. He previously taught African, African Diaspora, and English literatures at universities in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Swaziland, and South Africa. His numerous publications include Borderline Movements in African Fiction; An Introduction to the African Prose Narrative Literature; Literature, the Visual Arts and Globalization in Africa and Its Diaspora (edited with Maureen Eke); and Pre‐colonial and Post‐colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa (edited with Devi Sarinjeive). He is currently working on a book entitled Postcolonial Constellations within the Imperial Order: The Congo Narrative. Dr. Losambe also served as President of the African Literature Association (ALA) in 2012–2013.

Luís Madureira is Professor in the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His areas of research include Luso‐Brazilian colonial and postcolonial studies, modernism and modernity in Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean, early modern and colonial studies, and theater and performance in Africa. He is author of Imaginary Geographies in Portuguese and Lusophone African Literature (2007) and Cannibal Modernities: Postcoloniality and the Avant‐garde in Brazilian and Caribbean Literature (2005). He is currently at work on two book‐length projects: one centers on Mozambican drama, the other on Luso‐African historical novels.

Katwiwa Mule is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Smith College, Massachusetts, where he teaches various courses on World Literatures. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies from Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching interests include contemporary African and African Diaspora literatures, human rights in world literature, and African theater. He is currently working on a book project on Fatima Dike’s Theater. He is the author of Women’s Spaces, Women’s Visions: Politics, Poetics and Resistance in African Women’s Drama (2007). His works include essays and book chapters that have appeared in numerous collections including Meridians, Kiswahili: Journal of the Institute of Kiswahili Research, and Mapping Africa in the English‐Speaking World: Issues in Language and Literature. He was also the Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Metamorphoses: Journal of the Five College Seminar on Literary Translation focusing on translation in Africa.

Grace A. Musila is Associate Professor in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the author of A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder (2015), which explores Kenyan and British interpretations of the 1988 murder of British tourist Julie Ann Ward in Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. She also co‐edited (with James Ogude and Dina Ligaga) Rethinking Eastern African Intellectual Landscapes (2012). She has written articles and chapters on Eastern and Southern African literatures and popular cultures.

Evan Maina Mwangi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University, and Professor Extraordinaire of English at Stellenbosch University. His books include Translation in African Contexts: Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency (2017) and The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics (2018). His monograph in progress is on Indian Ocean cultures.

Tahia Abdel Nasser is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles (2017) and the editor of Nasser: My Husband (2013). Her research interests include twentieth‐ and twenty‐first‐century literature and Arabic and Latin American literatures. She is at work on a book that examines Arab and Latin American literary and cultural exchange in the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries and another book on cultural and literary ties between Palestine and Latin America.

Thengani H. Ngwenya is Associate Professor at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa where he is employed as the Director of the university’s Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT). His research interests include literary studies, higher education studies, autobiographical writing, and literary historiography.

Josiah Nyanda lectures in English and Critical Thinking at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a visiting part‐time lecturer at the Great Zimbabwe University, where he teaches life writing and literary theory, and a fellow of the Literary Cultures of the Global South at Tübingen University. His areas of research interest include life writing, media studies, popular culture, and politics. His articles have appeared in such journals as Scrutiny 2, English Studies in Africa, Social Dynamics, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, and Contracampo. He also contributed chapters to the volumes Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe: Politics, Power and Memory (ed. Sabelo Ndlovu‐Gatsheni); and While the Harvest Rots: Possessing Worlds of Kudzanai Chiurai (eds. Robert Muponde and Emma Laurence).

Mohamed‐Salah Omri is Professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature and Tutorial Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford. He is member of the British Academy Advisory Panel MENA; the research networks Arab Revolutions and New Humanism; Literature and Democracy and Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation, and member of the executive committee of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA). His publications include the books Minding Borders: Resilient Divisions in Literature, the Body and the Academy (co‐edited with Nicola Gardini, Matthew Reynolds, Adriana Jacobs, and Ben Morgan, 2017); University and Society within the Context of Arab Revolutions and New Humanism (with ElKhouni and Guessoumi, 2016); Confluency (tarafud) between Trade Unionism, Culture and Revolution in Tunisia (2016); and Nationalism, Islam and World Literature (2006). He has also published several essays on comparative literature and Arabic fiction and poetry. He has special focus on the Maghreb and cultural politics in Tunisia. Omri’s latest project, supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, is on authoritarianism and culture in the Arab world.

Anjali Prabhu is the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College, where she also teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies Program. The author of Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects and Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora, she is completing a book on eighteenth‐century British and French implication in India as it pertains to the southern kingdom of Mysore. Her articles and essays have appeared in journals such as Cinema Journal, French Forum, Diacritics, PMLA, International Journal of French and Francophone Studies, Research in African Literatures, Levinas Studies, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, and Comparative Literature Studies. An active member of the Modern Language Association, she has served the organization in numerous elected and nominated capacities, including on the Editorial Board of PMLA and the Program Committee. She is currently a member of the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee and the Executive Council.

Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work, which has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, focuses on Anglophone and African‐language fiction from Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Her current book project traces an alternative history of African literary production from the mid‐twentieth century to the present by considering the way that writers have developed a range of new literary forms in periodical print and digital publications, from magazines and newspapers to Facebook. Bosch Santana’s work has been published in the Routledge Handbook to African Literatures, Research in African Literatures, the Journal of African Cultural Studies, Wasafiri, and the Johannesburg Salon. She is also an editor of the blog Africa in Words.

Neil ten Kortenaar teaches African and Caribbean literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Postcolonial Literature and the Impact of Literacy: Reading and Writing in African and Caribbean Fiction (2011), which examines Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka among others. His current project looks at how Nigerian novelists imagined the state and its institutions at the moment of independence.

Hélène Tissières is guest researcher at the Global Studies Institute in Geneva. She taught at the University of Texas at Austin and was Associate Professor of African Literature and Cinema (from North and sub‐Saharan Africa). She left her position in 2016 to settle back in Geneva. In 2011, she taught at Kwara State University in Nigeria and from 2003 to 2005 at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar thanks to a Fulbright grant. She is the author of Transmigrational Writings between the Maghreb and Sub‐Saharan Africa: Literature, Orality, Visual Arts (2007/2012) and Créations et défis au Sénégal: Sembène, Diop, Diadji et Awadi (2013). Having followed the Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art since 2004, she curated an homage to this event in Switzerland during the summer of 2016, exhibiting the work of some thirty established artists at the Manoir in Martigny and throughout its city. She also edited the accompanying 150‐page catalogue. She presently is working on a book that is investigating literature, film, and contemporary art from the Sahel region.

Noah Tsika is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the author of, among other books, Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora, Pink 2.0: Encoding Queer Cinema on the Internet, and Traumatic Imprints: Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War. He is a contributing editor of Africa Is a Country and is currently completing a history of film distribution and exhibition in Nigeria.

Brian Valente‐Quinn is Assistant Professor of Francophone African Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Specialized in Theater and Performance Studies as well as in Francophone African literature, he is currently working on a book project exploring histories of stage performance in Senegal.

Hein Willemse is Professor of Literature and former Head of the Department of Afrikaans at the University of Pretoria. He has published widely on South African Literature with special reference to Black Afrikaans writers, writers of the Black Consciousness era in the 1970s and 1980s, and Afrikaans orature. His books include Aan die ander kant: Swart skrywers in die Afrikaanse letterkunde (“On the other side: Black writers in Afrikaans literature,” 2007), and he co‐edited texts such as More than Brothers: James Matthews and Peter Clarke at 70 (2000) and Achmat Davids’ The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims (2011). His current research includes projects on the South African poet‐dramatist‐philosopher Adam Small, and the Afrikaans orature of Namibia and South Africa. He is a former Editor‐in‐Chief of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (Journal of Literature) and a former President of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA).

Chantal Zabus is Professor of Comparative Postcolonial and Gender Studies at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord. She is the author of over a hundred articles in peer‐reviewed journals and numerous books, including The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the African Europhone Novel (1991; 2nd ed. 2007; French trans. 2018); Out in Africa: Same‐Sex Desire in Sub‐Saharan Literatures and Cultures (2014); Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts (2007; French trans. 2016); and Tempests after Shakespeare (2002). Her last two edited books are Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility (co‐edited with David Coad, 2014) and The Future of Postcolonial Studies (2015). She is currently working on transgender and transsexualism in African contexts. She is the Editor‐in‐Chief of one of the first journals on postcolonial studies online, Postcolonial Text (www.postcolonial.org).