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Contributors Contributors Leonard Acquah is a product of the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana and the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, where he teaches courses in Literature at the English Department. His areas of interest are Oral African Literature and Post-Colonial literature. He is currently working on a project on Asafo Flags as memory sites and as communi- cative devices. He is also working on the writings of the Indian novelist, Manil Suri. Moradewun Adejunmobi is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. She writes about cultural policies, vernacular literacy, women and intercultural communication in post-colonial societies. Her interests include, inter alia, Literacy Studies, Francophone Studies and African Film. Among her many publications are: Vernacular Palaver: Imaginations of the Local and Non-native Languages in West Africa (2004) and J. J. Rabiarivelo: Literature and Lingua Franca in Co- lonial Madagascar (1996). Abiodun Adeniji, Ph.D., is lecturer in English at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His areas of specialisation include African prose fiction, criti- cism and literary theory. He is the author of Serpents, a novel; Locust, a collection of short stories; and Bola and the Lord’s Angel, a children’s story book. Sonja Altnöder is coordinator of the International Ph.D Programme (IPP) ‘Literature and Cultural Studies’ at Justus Liebig University (JLU), Gießen. She is currently working on a book-length study titled ‘Map- ping London, 1800-today: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Representa- tions of the City.’ From October 2007 to May 2008, she held a post- doctoral scholarship at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at JLU, and was associate fellow at Friedrich- Alexander-University, Nuremberg-Erlangen (April 2005 to October 2006). She holds a Ph.D from Konstanz University. Sonja read English and German literature at Konstanz University as well as English litera- ture and gender studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has been a member of ASNEL since 2006. Stella Borg Barthet has a Ph.D from the University of Malta. She is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Malta, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, 440 Contributors and in 18th and 19th century English and American fiction. She is the au- thor of papers and book chapters, mostly on African, Australian and Maltese fiction. Her current research interests include Arab and Anglo- Arab writing. Richard Boon is Professor of Drama at the University of Hull, UK. He is the co-editor with Jane Plastow of Theatre Matters (1998) and Theatre and Empowerment (2004) for the Cambridge University Press series: Studies in Modern Theatre. He has published widely in the area of modern Brit- ish theatre and is the author of Brenton the Playwright (1991) and About Hare (2003), as well as the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Hare (2007). He was also co-editor of the Faber series ‘The Playwright and the Work’ and is currently co-editing a new series, ‘The Decades of Modern British Playwriting’ for Methuen. Cheela F. K. Chilala is currently a Special Research Fellow at the University of Zambia (UNZA) where he is pursuing his doctoral studies in litera- ture and teaches literature and theatre. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Education (English) in 1988 and a Master of Arts in Literature in 2007 from the same university. He has published academic and non- academic works in Zambia and abroad, and has won a number of awards in literature and drama. Reuben Chirambo holds a Ph.D in English from the University of Minne- sota. Is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in African Literature, Postcolo- nial Theory and Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Reuben studied at the University of Malawi for his undergraduate and B.Ed (Hons). He has written and published articles on Malawian literature in- cluding on poets such as Steve Chimombo, Frank Chipasula and Jack Mapanje. He has also published articles on popular culture such as po- litical cartoons and the popular music of Lucius Banda and Wambali Mkandawire. He is co-editor with Maxford Iphani and Zondiwe Mbano of The Unsung Song: An Anthology of Malawian Writing in English (2001). Stephanie Cox is a Visiting Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carleton College where she teaches courses on Quebec, Acadia and Louisiana. She is the author of ‘La vie probable’ a forthcoming study on the writing of Ying Chen. Her current research focuses on writers from cultures of immigration and diaspora in Francophone North America. She is the recipient of a Faculty Enrichment Grant from the Canadian .
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