Conference Speakers
Dr. Amy Sarah CarrollAmy Sara Carroll (MFA, Creative Writing, Poetry, Cornell University; PhD, Literature, Duke University) is the author of two collections of poetry SECESSION (Hyperbole Books, an imprint of San Diego State University Press, 2012) and FANNIE + FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography(Fordham University Press, 2013), chosen by Claudia Rankine for the 2012 Poets Out Loud Prize. She is currently teaching in the Society of Humanities department at Cornell University.
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Dr. Sandra PonzanesiDr. Sandra Ponzanesi is Full Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme(UU).
Her expertise is gender and postcolonial critique from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Her research areas include postcolonial studies, transnational feminist theories, comparative literature, Italian colonial history, European migration studies, visual culture, postcolonial cinema, media and conflict studies. She studied English and Commonwealth Studies at the University of Bologna (Italy) and University of Sussex (UK) and received her Ph.D., in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Utrecht University. |
Shenaz PatelShenaz Patel is a journalist and writer from island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean.
As a journalist, she has been a Reuter fellow, worked as editor in chief of a political newspaper, before setting up of the arts, culture and society section of Mauritius' biggest weekly. She still works as a columnist for this weekly. As a writer, she has published four novels, numerous short stories in French and Mauritian Creole, two plays, two graphic novels, four children's books. One of her main novels talks about the plight of the Chagossian people, expelled from their archipelago to enable the United States to build one of their main military bases. She was an IWP (International Writers Program) Honorary Fellow in the U.S. in 2016, and is presently a fellow at the Hutchins Centre-W.E.B du Bois Institute for the Spring semester 2018. |