Frank B. Wilderson III is an award-winning writer, activist, and critical theorist who spent five and a half years in South Africa, where he was one of two Americans to have held elected office in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid. He also worked clandestinely for the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK). He has worked as a dramaturge for Lincoln Center Theater and the Market Theater in Johannesburg. He is the recipient of The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; The Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers; and The American Book Award as well as other literary awards and honors. His books include, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid; and Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. He is a professor at UC Irvine in the Departments of African American Studies and Drama, and the Culture and Theory Program.

Heidrun Friese is an anthropologist and professor for Intercultural Communication at the University of Chemnitz, Germany. Her research interests focus on social and political theory, (cultural) identities; borders and transnational practices; hospitality, ‘undocumented’ mobility in the Mediterranean and digital anthropology (http://www.hfriese.de, Email: heidrun.friese@phil.tu-chemnitz.de)

Publications include:
Grenzen der Gastfreundschaft. Die Bootsflüchtlinge von Lampedusa und die europäische Frage, Bielefeld, transcript (2014);

‘Border Economies. Lampedusa and the Nascent Migration Industry.’ In: Alison Mountz and Linda Briskman (Hg.) Shima: The International Journal of Research Into Island Cultures, Special issue on Detention Islands, 6,2: 66-84.

‘Transnational Mobilities, Digital Media and Cultural Resources’. In: Achim Lichtenberger and Constance v. Rüden (eds.) Multiple Mediterranean Realities. Munich: Fink Verlag, 2015;

‘Ya l’babour, ya mon amour’ - Raï, Rap and the Desire to Escape’. In: Magdalena Waligorska (ed.) Music, Longing and Belonging. Articulations of the Self and the Other in the Musical Realm. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 176-201, 2013;

Co-editor (with S. Mezzadra), Migration and Social Theory, special issue European Journal for Social Theory, 13, 3, 2010.

 

Alecia McKenzie is a Jamaican writer, painter and journalist currently based in Paris, France. Her first book, Satellite City, and her novel Sweetheart have both won Commonwealth literary awards, and she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2015. Her work has also appeared in literary magazines and various anthologies such as Stories from Blue Latitudes, Global Tales, Light Transports, and the first Girls’ Night In. As a journalist, she reports on development, culture and environmental issues for a news agency and is the founder and editor of Southern World Arts News (SWAN), an on-line magazine / blog about the arts. Her own paintings have been exhibited in Kingston, New York, London, Paris and other cities. Sweetheart, the story of an artist, is being published in French translation as Trésor in 2016.

R. RAJ RAO is currently Professor and former Head of the Department of English at the S.P. Pune University, India, where he has been teaching creative writing, queer studies, and Indian writing in English. He has written four collections of poetry, Slide Show, BomGay, For Hire, and The Canada Album. His fiction comprises a collection of short stories, One Day I Locked My Flat in Soul, and two novels, The Boyfriend and Hostel Room 131. He has also written The Wisest Fool on Earth and Other Plays. Rao’s nonfiction includes two major books, Nissim Ezekiel: The Authorized Biography and Whistling in the Dark: Twenty-One Queer Interviews, co-edited with Dibyajyoti Sarma. His latest book publications are Me Hijra, Me Laxmi (translation), published by Oxford University Press India, and Lady Lolita's Lover (novel) published by Harper Collins India, both in 2015.

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