Affiliated Members
Mina Karavanta
Assistant Professor Of Comparative Literature And Cultural And Post-colonial Studies Faculty Of English Studies, School Of Philosophy, National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens
Mina Karavanta is a member of “Behind the Looking-Glass: ‘Other-Cultures-within’ translating Cultures,” a transnational research network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and co-ordinated by Professor Joan Anim-Addo (UCL, Goldsmiths). She is one of the founders and co-editors of Synthesis, an electronic and peer-reviewed journal of comparative literary studies.
Her work has appeared in Mosaic, Feminist Review, Modern Fiction Studies and other journals and edited collections. She has co-edited Edward Said and Jacques Derrida: Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid (with Nina Morgan) and Interculturality and Gender (with Joan Anim-Addo & Giovanna Covi).
She is currently working on her monograph The Postnational Novel: Literary Configurations of Community in the Anglophone Novel of the Twentieth-first Century.
Faculty host: Tabea Linhard, Germanic Languages & Literatures
John McLeod
Professor Of Postcolonial And Diaspora Literatures, School Of English, University Of Leeds
John McLeod works primarily in the field of postcolonial studies and has particular interest in representations of diasporic and transcultural locations.
He is author of Postcolonial London: Rewriting the Metropolis, Beginning Postcolonialism, J. G. Farrell; editor ofRoutledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies; and co-editor of the collections The Revision of Englishness andThe 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction. He also has contributed many scholarly essays to academic journals and books concerning postcolonial, diasporic and transcultural literatures.
He on the editorial boards of a number of journals in postcolonial studies — Moving Worlds, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, New Literatures Review, Journal of Commonwealth Literature — and has guest-edited two issues ofKunapipi (XXI, 2, 1999, and XXV, 1, 2003).
He is an associate member of the Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur les Pays du Commonwealth (CERPEC) at the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, France, and on the Advisory Board of the Nordic Network of Literary Transculturations based at the University of Bergen, Norway.
His current research activities include a study of transcultural fictions of adoption and a project concerning representations of sport. He is a member of the editorial board of Adoption and Culture, and he is collaborating with colleagues at the University of Paris Sorbonne, France, and Jadavpur University, India, on sporting cultures.
Faculty host: Ignacio Infante, Comparative Literature and Romance Languages & Literatures