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Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. Her books include Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor (2021), which has won Columbia University's Robert S. Liebert Award, and What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (2014), which won a British Academy prize. She has co-edited A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (2024) and edited After Lacan (2018). She is currently writing A Very Short Introduction to Postcolonial Literature (2024). Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English at Stanford University. His books include the 2-volume Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (ed.), Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature, and Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism. He is Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry and host of Cambridge Contours: The Cambridge Literary Studies Hour. He has also curated Critic.Reading.Writing, a YouTube channel dedicated to themes in the interdisciplinary literary humanities. |