Madhu Krishnan
Madhu Krishnan is an assistant professor and lecturer of twentieth/ twenty-first century postcolonial writing at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014). Her work centres on African and African diaspora writing, publishing and culture, with a particular focus on the intersection between aesthetics, socio-political interventions and cultural materialism in the making of African literary institutions. Her forthcoming monograph, Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies and the Anglophone /Francophone Novel, will be released by James Currey Press’s African Articulations series in 2018, and she convenes the AHRC Research Network, ‘Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Sub-Saharan Africa’, as well as the ‘Ethics, Affect and Responsibility: Global Citizenship and the Act of Reading’ workshop series, sponsored by the British Academy.
Events featuring this speaker
Race, Gender and the Future of Cities
Sado Jirde, Madhu Krishnan, Sumita Mukherjee, Aisha Rana-Deshmukh, Nicole Truesdell
Women of colour have often been at the forefront of movements to create more humane and integrated policies and places. What can historic and global movements for change teach us about the future of cities?
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