Editorial, programming & advisory boards

Reading Decoloniality is guided by an advisory board, led by co-directors, co-editors, an editorial and programming board.

Key disciplines covered by organising members include anthropology, art history, comparative literature, critical Indigenous studies, dramaturgy, education, film studies, environmental humanities, gender studies, law, literacy studies, participatory arts, policy studies, political science, sociolinguistics, sociology, theatre and performance studies, theology and world literatures.

More on collaborative structures for key activities are here.

Advisory board

Dr Ramón Grosfoguel

Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, U.S.A

Ramón Grosfoguel is internationally recognised for his work on decolonisation of knowledge and power as well as for his work in international migration and political-economy of the world-system... (click for full bio)

Professor Nataša Kovačević

Eastern Michigan University, U.S.A

Nataša Kovačević’s leading research centres on the theoretical intersection of postcolonial and postsocialist studies, specifically examining how Eastern Europe occupies a 'borderline' space in the Western imagination... (click for full bio)

Professor Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Prof Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is a historian and decolonial/postcolonial theorist. He is currently Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany and member of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the same institution... (click for full bio)

Professor Madina Tlostanova

Linköping University, Sweden

Madina Tlostanova’s vast contribution expands decolonial theory into the specific geopolitical and ontological realm of the postsocialist human condition, particularly through her analysis of the Soviet empire as a 'Janus-faced' empire... (click for full bio)

Co-directors

Dr Nadeen Dakkak

Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK

Dr Nadeen Dakkak completed a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She was an Early Career Fellow at Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study in 2020-2021 and... (click for full bio)

Dr Claire French

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark

Claire's research investigates the ethics, aesthetics, and epistemologies of multilingual dramaturgies within socially engaged and ensemble traditions. ... (click for full bio)

Asanda Ngoasheng

Political analyst, speaker and academic, South Africa

Asanda Ngoasheng is a speaker, political analyst, diversity expert, curriculum developer and academic... (click for full bio)

Maternity leave

Dr Teodora Todorova

Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, UK

Dr Teodora Todorova is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Warwick. She has a PhD in Critical Theory from the University of Nottingham, has published scholarship on decolonial solidarity in Palestine-Israel, and teaches State Crime, Human Rights and Global Wrongs as well as qualitative research design and philosophies of social science... (click for full bio)

Co-editors, Journal of Reading Decoloniality

Dr Bharti Arora

Assistant Professor, University of Delhi, India

Bharti Arora teaches at the Department of English, University of Delhi. She earned her PhD (English) from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She was the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow (2022) at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her areas of research include Gender Studies, Women’s Fiction, Indian Literatures, Social Movements and Nation ... (click for full bio)

Dr Nazry Bahrawi

Assistant Professor, University of Washington, U.S

Dr Nazry Bahrawi specialises in the decolonial work of articulating Malay-Indonesian cultural modes of thought and ‘theory’ expressed through literature, film and art. He is currently researching the intersections between race and animal narratives in maritime Southeast Asia and have published on literary Islam and translation studies in the region... (click for full bio)

Maria Jose Recalde-Vela

PhD researcher, Tilburg Law School, The Netherlands

Maria is an Ecuadorian/Honduran PhD candidate at the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Law school, The Netherlands. She is part of the European (joint) Doctorate on Law & Development (EDOLAD) program. Her PhD project investigates the manner in which inclusion is conceptualized in the field of statelessness through the practice of human rights and international development actors... (click for full bio)

Dr Berenike Jung

Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK

Berenike is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. Previously, she taught film and media at King's College London, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the University of Tübingen in Germany. She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick in 2016; her monograph The Invisibilities of Torture: The Presence of Absence in US and Chilean Cinema and Television was... (click for full bio)

Editorial board, Journal of Reading Decoloniality

Dr Giulia Champion

Anniversary Fellow, University of Southampton, UK

Dr Giulia Champion is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her project focuses on the legalisation of deep-sea mining, engagement with and representations of the seabed and deep-sea in different communities... (click for full bio)

Dr Dimas Iqbal Romadhon

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California-Davis, U.S

Dr Dimas Iqbal Romadhon is an anthropologist and historian of Southeast Asia with specific research and teaching interests in illness and healing cultures, space/place, colonial and postcolonial studies, intellectual histories, and speculative approaches... (click for full bio)

Dr Kamran Khan

Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK

Kamran Khan is currently the director of the MOSAIC research group on multilingualism and an associate professor of language, social justice and education... (click for full bio)

Dr Ashraf Kunnummal

Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, UK

Dr Ashraf Kunnummal is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Ashraf finished his PhD from the Department of Religion Studies, University of Johannesburg, titled "A Critical Decolonial Reading of Liberation,... (click for full bio)

Dr Pablo Pakula

Teaching Fellow and live artist, University of Birmingham, UK

Pablo Pakula is a live artist, performance-maker, event producer and pedagogue whose work moves across live art, devising, dramaturgy, contemporary ensemble practice, site-specific performance and auto/biographical performance. Born and raised in Spain, with Spanish, German and Polish heritage, Pablo describes himself as a “European Mongrel”, a term he uses to reflect the hybridity of his cultural identity and artistic practice... click for full bio.

Dr Samuel Ravengai

Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Samuel Ravengai is an Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), where he also serves as the Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Humanities. A Zimbabwean-born scholar and director, he is internationally recognized for propounding Afroscenology... (click to read more)

Dr Sonali Singha

Assistant Professor, Assam Don Bosco University, India

Dr Sonali Singha (she/her) is is an early-career academician interested in expanding her knowledge and research on migration and diaspora studies, Black feminist criticism, South African writings in English, and emerging literatures in the African diaspora. Her PhD thesis focused on Black British fiction by women, primarily those of African and Caribbean descent (click for full bio)

Dr Bobby Smith

Associate Professor and arts practitioner, University of Warwick, UK

Bobby Smith is a practitioner and researcher interested in exploring social action and change through arts, performance and storytelling. He has published widely on applied and socially engaged performance, particularly on theatre and global development, violence, and the climate crisis. Much of his work has been co-written with collaborators in other disciplines, artists and practitioners... click for full bio.

Programming board, Reading groups, residencies and symposia

Dr Ann Ang

Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr Ann Ang is an Assistant Professor in English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She recently completed my DPhil in postcolonial and world literature at Wadham College, Oxford... (click for full bio)

Dr Sakiru Adebayo

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr Sakiru Adebayo is an assistant professor of African literature in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is the author of Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa... (click for full bio)

Dr Josefine Baark

Art historian and museologist, Denmark

Dr Josefine Baark works in the intersection between global art history and museology with a special focus on the relationship between aesthetics, technology and temporality in the 18th century. With a PhD in Art History from the University of Cambridge and a post-doctoral career in Denmark, the UK, Hungary and Hong Kong... (click for full bio)

Dr Tania Cañas

Postdoctoral Fellow, Waipapa Taumata Rau/ University of Auckland

Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of forced displacement, borders, memory, and decoloniality through community-led creative and performance practices... (click for full bio)

Dr Rina Garcia Chua

Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Rina is a creative and critical scholar from the Philippines who is currently based in unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ of the syilx / Okanagan peoples. She has been a 2022-2023 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, a 2023 Environmental Humanities Institute Fellow at Dartmouth, and she received her PhD from the University of British Columbia... (click for full bio)

Dr Xolisa Guzula

Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Dr Xolisa Guzula is an early literacy specialist with interests in biliteracy development; emergent literacy; bi/multilingual education; language and literacy as social practice; multi-literacies; multi-modality; third spaces and bilingual children's literature... (click for full bio)

Mercy Kannemeyer

Screenwriter and playwright, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Mercy Kannemeyer is a South African playwright, screenwriter, director and academic/researcher. Her theatre work includes plays such as Boesak (2023), Woorde op akkoorde (2020), Die bul die wil nie (2020), Ons is nie almal so nie (2019), Ekstra large, asseblief? (2019/2020) and Prinz Betliegend (2018)... (click for full bio)

Dr Isabel Margarita Nuñez Salazar

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Isabel Margarita Nuñez Salazar is a passionate sociologist and historian researching the fields of families, relationships, intimacies and communities, looking at the intersections on class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity in the Global South... (click for full bio)

Jenna Nilson

PhD researcher, University of Warwick, UK

Jenna Nilson is a doctoral researcher and a Chancellor’s International Scholarship recipient at the University of Warwick, where she is a member of the Social Science Research Group within the Department of Education Studies. Her research focuses on drama-based pedagogy and its potential for fostering inclusive language learning environments... (click for full bio)

Laura Ximena Triana Gallego

PhD researcher, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Laura Triana Gallego. is a PhD researcher at CEDLA (Centre for Latin American Studies and Documentation) and a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam... (click for full bio)

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