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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 Adéṣ

      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

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