Reading from the South

Charne Lavery is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Co-director of the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project based at WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University. He is author of Unruly Waters.

Gabeba Baderoon is a literary scholar, poet and Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she also co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. She is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid and four books of poetry, most recently The History of Intimacy.

Karin Barber is Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her publications include A History of African Popular Culture.

Rimli Bhattacharya is the author of 'The Dancing Poet': Rabindranath Tagore and Choreographies of Participation.

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She collaborated with Isabel Hofmeyr on Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating the Imperial Commons.

Carolyn Hamilton is the South African Research Chair in Archive and Public Culture at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Terrific Majesty, and co-editor of Refiguring the Archive, The Cambridge History of South Africa and Babel Unbound.

Khwezi Mkhize is Lecturer in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and co-editor of the journal African Studies. He is the author of numerous essays and co-editor of Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele.