Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- Invitation by the Danish Cultural Institute in the UK , by Invitation (Danish Cultural Institute, UK, 2012)
- Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism in Post 9/11 novels, by Invitation (Postgraduate/Staff Student Seminar, School of English, University of Liverpool, 2011)
- Postcolonial "Yoof" culture in 21st Century British Fiction, by Invitation (Brunel University, West London, 2011)
- Flora Nwapa and African Feminism, by Invitation (University of Worcester, 2010)
- The Good Old Days: Colonial Nostalgia and the Commonwealth in contemporary S.E. Asian Literature Li, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University of Cyprus, 2010)
- The Politics of Sex in Postcolonial Literature: The New Orientalist Debate , by Invitation (School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2010)
- The Culture of Postcolonial Studies: Exploring Aravind Adiga's _The White Tiger_, by Invitation (Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing, 2010)
- Cosmopolitan Citizen, Uncommon Reader, Infrequent Traveler, by Invitation (University of Bern, Switzerland, 2009)
- Post-imperial Rural Britain, by Invitation ( Oxford University, 2008)
Editorships
- Contemporary Literature (Book Reviews Editor, 2008 - 2011)
- Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Associate Editor, 2008 - present)
- Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter (Editor, 2008 - 2011)
Organisations I have been associated with
- Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004 - 2006)
Professional Body Memberships
- Postcolonial Studies Association (Founder Member, 2008 - 2012)
- Institute of English Studies (Member, 2008 - 2012)
- Modern Language Association (Member, 2002 - 2012)