Pavan Kumar Malreddyis researcher in English literature at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He previously taught at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and TU Chemnitz, Germany. His publications includeOrientalism, Terrorism, Indigenism(2015) and the co-edited collectionReworking Postcolonialism(2015). He has co-edited special issues with theJournal of Postcolonial Writing(2012; 2020),ZAA: Journal of English and American Studies(2014),Kairosand theEuropean Journal of English Studies(2018), and has authored essays on terrorism, political violence and postcolonial theory inThe European Legacy,Third World Quarterly,Journal of Postcolonial WritingandIntertexts, among others.

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha

is Professor at the Department of English,Kazi Nazrul University,India. He was Fulbright Nehru Fellow 2018-19 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research focuses on postcolonial governmentality, citizenship rights, political violence and the Anthropocene. His work appeared inInternational Journal of Zizek Studies,Parallax,Journal of Postcolonial Writing,History and Sociology of South Asia,Postcolonial Studies,Transnational LiteratureandEconomic and Political Weekly, among others. He is co-editor ofKairos: A Journal of Critical Symposiumand is one of the founding members of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS).

Birte Heidemann is Assistant Professor in English literature at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. She previously held appointments at TU Chemnitz and University of Bremen, Germany. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural expressions of post-conflict societies. She is the author ofPost-Agreement Northern Irish Literature(2016) and co-editor ofFromPopular Goethe to Global Pop(2013),Reworking Postcolonialism(2015) and two special editions of theJournal of Postcolonial Writing. Her work has appeared inThe Journal of Commonwealth Literature,WasafiriandPostcolonial Text, among others.