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LEEDS

GRAHAM HUGGAN is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds, and is Director of the Leeds Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (ICPS). He is the author or co-editor of seven books and more than fifty articles in the comparative postcolonial field. Recent publications on Europe include 'Perspectives on Postcolonial Europe' (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2008) and Racism / Postcolonialism / Europe (co-edited with Ian Law, forthcoming with Liverpool UP, 2009).

IAN LAW is Reader in Racism and Ethnicity Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, and was the founding Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS). Publications include Racism and Ethnicity: A Global Analysis (Forthcoming with Pearson, 2009), Racism / Postcolonialism / Europe (co-edited with Graham Huggan, forthcoming with Liverpool UP, 2009), and 'Racist Futures', special edition, Ethnic and Racial Studies (co-edited with Bobby Sayyid, 2007).

JOHN MCLEOD is Reader in Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds, and has published five books and over thirty scholarly essays in the field of postcolonial studies. His publications on Europe include his book Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis (Routledge, 2004) and two essays: '"London Stylee!": Recent Representations of Postcolonial London', in Migrant Cartographies: New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe, ed. Sandra Ponzanesi and Daniela Merolla (Lanham: Lexington, 2005); and 'European Tribes: Transcultural Diasporic Encounters' in Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas, ed. Michelle Keown, David Murphy and James Procter (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

RODANTHI TZANELLI is Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include the critical study of national and European identities, migration in Europe, European and global discourses of terrorism, and Greek understandings of Orientalism as tangible and intangible heritage. Publications related to European studies are: The Cinematic Tourist: Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance (Routledge, 2007), Nation-Building and Identity in Europe: The Dialogics of Reciprocity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and The 'Greece' of Britain and the 'Britain' of Greece: Performance, Stereotypes, Expectations and Intermediaries in 'Neohellenic' and Victorian Narratives, 1864-1881 (VDM, 2009).

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MUNICH

TOBIAS DOERING is Professor of English Literature at the LMU Munich. A graduate of the University of Kent at Canterbury and the FU Berlin, he specializes in Postcolonial Studies and Early Modern Studies and has published widely in these fields. His books include Caribbean-English Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition (Routledge 2002), Eating Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Food (co-editor, Winter 2003), A History of Postcolonial Literatures in 12½ Books (editor, WVT 2007), Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction (Klett 2008).

MARGRET FETZER is Assistant Professor at the LMU Munich, where she works and teaches in the Department of English and American Studies. A graduate of the University of Tuebingen, she has completed a doctoral thesis in Munich in the field of Renaissance Studies on John Donne’s performances. A member of the Munich research group “Beginnings in/of Modernity”, working on nineteenth-century Scottish writing, her further interests include life writing, critical theory and contemporary literature. She has published numerous articles, e.g. “Reading as Creative Intercourse: Michael Cunningham’s and Stephen Daldry’s The Hours”, Anglistik 19:1(2008): 65-83; “Donne’s Sermons as Re-enactments of the Word”, Connotations 17:1(2007/08): 1-13; “Painfully Shocking – Mark Ravenhill’s Theatre as Out-of-Body-Experience”, in: Drama and/after Postmodernism, eds Christoph Henke, Martin Middeke, (Trier: WVT 2007): 165-78.

SARAH KNOR is a graduate student in English and French Literature at the LMU Munich, where she is currently working on her thesis in the field of Postcolonial Literatures.

CORDULA LEMKE is Junior Professor of English Literature at the FU Berlin, where she is currently completing a project on “Ossian and the Invention of the Scottish Nation”. A graduate of the University of Heidelberg, she was member of the Munich graduate programme “Geschlechterdifferenz und Literatur” and, from 2006 to 2008, member of the Munich research group “Beginnings in/of Modernity”. She specializes in Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies and modern/post-modern literature and has published many articles and two books in these fields: Wandel in der Erfahrung: Die Konstruktion von Welt in den Romanen von Virginia Woolf und Jeanette Winterson (WVT 2004), Joseph Conrad 1957-1924 (co-editor, Weidler 2007).

YVONNE ZIPS is a PhD candidate at the LMU Munich, where she works as an assistant lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies and pursues special interests in Gender Studies and modern literature.

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UTRECHT

SANDRA PONZANESI is assistant professor Gender and Postcolonial Critique and Senior researcher at the Department of Media and Culture studies/Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D., in Comparative Literature at Utrecht University in 1999. She was Visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles in 2006. Her research interests include: transnational feminist theories, Postcolonial Critique, comparative literature, European Migration Studies, media studies and postcolonial Cinema. She is project leader of the High Potential Program: “Wired up. Digital media as innovative socialization practices for migrant youth.” Among her publications are Migrant Cartographies: New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Postcolonial Europe Sandra Ponzanesi and Daniela Merolla (eds.). Lanham, MD, Lexingtonbooks, 2005 and Paradoxes of Post-colonial Culture. Contemporary Women Writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian Diaspora Albany, State University of New York Press, 2004.

ROSEMARIE BUIKEMA is professor of Art, Culture and Diversity, Utrecht University. She is educated in History of Modern Art and Women’s Studies. She is the scientific director of the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University and Head of the Department of Media and Culture Studies. She worked as a visiting professor at the University of Western Cape, the University of Cape Town and the Karlovy University in Prague. Her publications are on the interface between Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Gender Studies. Among her recent publications are Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture Routledge, New York and London, 2009 (ed. with Iris van der Tuin); Het heilige huis. De gotieke vertelling in de Nederlandse literatuur (Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, 2006: 128 pp. (Wales UP, 2009 forthcoming) (with Lies Wesseling) and Kunsten in Beweging (Arts in Motion Culture and Migration in The Netherlands) 1900-1980 and 1980-2000 SdU: The Hague 2003 and 2004 (with Maaike Meijer).

PAULO DE MEDEIROS (1958) received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and holds the Chair of Portuguese Studies at Utrecht University. He has published variously on issues of literary theory and contemporary Portuguese authors. Some of his articles relating to Postcolonial Studies include “Postcolonial Memories and Lusophone Literatures” in European Review 13.1 (2005) and “(Re-)Constructing, (Re-)Membering Postcolonial Selves” in Stories and Portraits of the Self. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Vol. 115 (2007). He also edited a volume of essays on Postcolonial Theory and Lusophone Literatures (Utrecht, 2007). Currently he is writing on cruelty and inheritance in relation to a Postcolonial Europe.

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