Joan Anim-Addo is Professor Emerita of Caribbean Literature and Culture, Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies, Goldsmiths, Univesrity of London. Her publications include Longest Journey: A History of Black Lewisham, and Touching the Body: History, Language and African-Caribbean Women’s Writing. the co-edited books, Interculturality and Gender, and I am Black, White, Yellow: An Introduction to the Black Body in Europe. She is co-editor of the Feminist Review Special Issues, ‘Affect and Creolisation’ and ‘Black British Feminisms’. As Associate Editor of Callaloo, she co-edited ‘UNCHAINING SELVES: The Power of the Neo-Slave Narrative Genre’, I & II. Her libretto, Imoinda –translated by Giovanna Covi and Chiara Pedrotti– has been staged in New York and London. A current Leverhulme Research Fellow, her recent publication is This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Books (co-written). She is Editor of Blacklines, the magazine of Black British Writing, and editor–in–Chief of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Black British Writing (forthcoming).
Rosario Arias is Professor of English Literature at the University of Málaga, Spain. She has published widely on (neo-)Victorian fiction, contemporary Anglophone fiction, literary and critical theory, gender studies and feminism, as well as the intersections between literature and other disciplines as in Environmental Humanities and Medical Humanities. She has co-edited (with Patricia Pulham) Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction (Palgrave, 2010), (with Patricia Pulham, Christine Ferguson, and Tatiana Kontou) Spiritualism, 1840-1930 in the Victorian Concepts series (Routledge, 2014), (with Lin Pettersson) Reading the Trace in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Gylphi, 2022), and, in Spanish, with Juan-Jesús Zaro-Vera, Spanish Spiritualist Writings and its Dissemination through Translations (Reichenberger, 2023). Recently she has co-authored Women and Entertainment in the Victorian Home (with Laura Monrós-Gaspar, in Spanish) (Publicacions Universitat València-PUV, 2023). She leads both the LITCAE research group and the Literary Assemblage Project (RELY), and is part of the Erasmus+ project “EcoStories“, led by University of Graz. Arias is currently the President of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), and the President of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Society in Spain (VINS). Arias is a member of Academia Europaea, and Fellow of the English Association.
Gordon Henry is an enrolled member/citizen of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation in Minnesota. Until recently, he was the Leslie, Endowed Chair in American Indian Literature at Michigan State University. He also served as Senior Editor of the American Indian Studies Series at Michigan State University Press. In 1995 he received an American Book Award for his novel the Light People. Henry published a mixed-genre collection, The Failure of Certain Charms, with Salt Publishing, in the U.K in 2007. His writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in the U.S. and in translation in Spain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the U.K. and Germany. His poetry was in When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, published in 2020 and Living Nations, Living Words, 2021. He co-edited Enduring Critical Poses: Life and Letters in Anishinaabe Literature. He also co-edited, Afterlives: of the Indigenous Archive, a 2019 published collection, from the University Press of New England Press. A Catalan translation, by Carme Manuel Cuenca of The Failure of Certain Charms, was published in October of 2018, by Balandra Edicions in Valencia, Spain. His poetry collection Spirit Matters: White Clay, Red Exits, Distant Others came out in June of 2022. In 2018, 2019 and 2022 Professor Henry, served as Gordon Russell, Visiting Professor in Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. In January of 2025 Dr. Henry was appointed Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Northeastern University in Boston.
John McLeod is Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Beginning Postcolonialism (Manchester UP, 2000/2010), Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis(Routledge, 2004), J.G. Farrell (Northcote House, 2007), Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption (Bloomsbury, 2015), and Global Trespassers: Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary Culture (Liverpool UP). He has edited special issues of journals such as Wasafiri, Moving Worlds, and Études Anglaises, and has published scholarly essays in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ARIEL, Paragraph, Atlantic Studies, Adoption and Culture, amongst others. He is an Executive Committee member of the Alliance for the Adoption and Culture (ASAC) and is co-editor (with Emily Hipchen) of the Ohio State University Press book series, Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Turku, Finland, in recognition of his contribution to postcolonial studies.