Sissy Helff Editor

Elisabeth Bekers is Professor of British and Postcolonial Literature at Vrije Universiteit

Brussel, Belgium. She researches literature from Africa and its diaspora, and currently

focuses on black British women’s writing. Her publications include the co-edited volumes

Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe (2009) and Brussel schrijven/

Écrire Bruxelles (2016).

Maggie Ann Bowers is a Senior Lecturer in Literatures in English at the University of

Portsmouth, UK. Her research covers contemporary postcolonial studies, focusing particularly

on Native American studies and comparative multi-ethnic literatures of North

America. She is the author of Magic(al) Realism (2004). Her recent research has examined

the links between storytelling, ritual, and law and sovereignty in Native American writing.

Sissy Helff is a freelance anglicist with a broad range of interests in Anglophone world

literature, postcolonial and transcultural studies, visual culture, history, and politics. Her

recent book, Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women’s Fiction of

the Diaspora (2012), is an overview of Indian diasporic women’s writing from around the

world.