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Executive Editors

Anupama Arora, The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (US)

Anupama Arora works in the departments of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of Anglophone postcolonial, transnational, and feminist studies, especially focusing on literature and film from South Asia and its diaspora. Her essays have appeared in many book collections and journals including South Asian Popular Culture, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Writing, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies. She has also co-edited two anthologies: India in the American Imaginary 1780s–1880s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies (Rutgers, 2021).

Jeannette E. Riley, The University of Rhode Island (US)

Jeannette E. Riley currently serves as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rhode Island. Riley’s research interests focus on women’s literature, with an emphasis on contemporary women writers and feminist theory. She has published articles on Eavan Boland, Terry Tempest Williams, Adrienne Rich, and Toni Morrison. She is the author of Understanding Adrienne Rich (2016), from the University of South Carolina’s Understanding Contemporary American Literature series. Riley’s work also includes publications on feminist pedagogy and online/blended teaching and learning.

Co-Editors

Jessica Frazier, The University of Rhode Island (US)

Jessica Frazier is an Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island in the History and Gender and Women’s Studies Departments. She is the author of Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and her research interests revolve around transnational feminism, social movements, intersectionality, and human rights.

Anna M. Klobucka, The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (US)

Anna M. Klobucka works in the departments of Portuguese and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research focuses on feminist and queer interpretations of Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures and cultures and on mapping the intersections of Lusophone (post)coloniality and gender politics.

Erin K. Krafft, The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (US)

Erin K. Krafft received her PhD in Slavic Studies from Brown University in 2015, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She is currently finishing a book titled Gender and Justice: Learning Through Cases, co-authored by Dr. Susan Krumholz and Dr. Jo-Ann Della Giustina. She is also working on two chapters for edited volumes; the first involves an analysis of paradoxes in the sexual politics of the European far-right, and the second examines the translation of "gender" in Russia, both linguistically and culturally. With a background in Slavic Studies and Russian culture, Dr. Krafft brings transnational understandings of crime and justice and the relationship between the state and the citizen into both her teaching and research.

Heather M. Turcotte, The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (US)

Heather M. Turcotte is committed to anti-oppressive transnational feminist approaches to decolonizing academia, the interstate system, and daily exchange. She works in the department of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and holds affiliations with Black Studies, Sustainability Studies, Urban Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching is located in the historical intersections of Africana and critical ethnic studies, critical legal and justice studies, feminist studies, and geopolitics.

Advisory Board

Anna M. Agathangelou, York University (Canada)

Debra Ann Castillo, Cornell University (US)

Elora Chowdhury, The University of Massachusetts Boston (US)

Catherine Villanueva Gardner, The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (US)

Agnieszka Graff, University of Warsaw (Poland)

Elizabeth Grosz, Duke University (US)

Joy A. James, Williams College (US)

Carla Kaplan, Northeastern University (US)

Gary Lemons, University of South Florida (US)

Monika Mehta, SUNY Binghamton (US)

Robyn Ochs, Independent scholar and activist (US)

Karen Offen, Stanford University (US)

Dana Olwan, Syracuse University (US)

Emma L. E. Rees, University of Chester (UK)

Sandrine Sanos, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (US)

Tamara L. Spira, Fairhaven College and Western Washington University (US)

Nikki Sullivan, Macquarie University (Australia)

Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania (Australia)