The Editors   

• Laura Chrisman is Nancy K Ketcham Professor of English, University of Washington. She works in the fields of postcolonial cultural theory; black Atlantic cultural studies; South African cultural politics; British imperial literature and ideology. Recent publications include Postcolonial Contraventions: Cultural Readings of Race, Imperialism and Transnationalism (Manchester University Press, 2003).
• Kgomotso Michael Masemola taught the English canon, postcolonial literature as well as literary theory and criticism in three South African universities over a seven-year period before pursuing his PhD at the University of Sheffield in England. His research interest in the politicocultural dis/investment of the diasporic circuit – influenced by Deleuzean nomadism and Gatesian “repetition in a new direction” – reflects his ongoing engagement with emergent discourses of value attending globalisation. While he maintains vital links with the Universities of the Witwatersrand and KwaZulu Natal, from which institutions he took his three degrees, he now lives in Swansea, where he works with statutory and voluntary sector bodies in the area of organisational capacity building as it relates to the cosmopolitan thrust of urban renewal.
• Ntongela Masilela is professor of English and World Literature at Pitzer College in Claremont, California and Adjunct Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of California in Irvine.
•  Stephan Meyer previously taught Philosophy at the University of Durban-Westville. He is attached to the Language Centre and to the Centre of Gender Studies at the University of Basel. Along with Judith Lütge Coullie, Thengani Ngwenya and Thomas Olver he co-edited Selves in Question: Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography (Hawaii University Press 2006). His research interests are contemporary critical theory and collaborative life-writing.
• Lewis Nkosi has lived and taught in various locations on the Atlantic in Africa, Europe and North America. A former member of Drum magazine, he has published a study of African literature, Tasks and Masks; essays, Home and Exile and The Transplanted Heart; two novels, Mating Birds and Underground People; and written a number of plays for radio and theatre, among them The Black Psychiatrist.
• Thomas Olver is an editor and teacher in South Africa. He has co-edited anthologies of South African short stories and poetry and a special issue of the Journal of Literary Studies on Alternative Modernities in African Literatures and Cultures. He has also collaborated on research projects and taught literature at universities in South Africa and Switzerland. His research focuses on gender and post-colonial writing.
• Alan Rice is Reader in American Cultural Studies at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. He has published widely in African American Studies and in Ethnic Studies, including editing with Martin Crawford, the first book of essays on Frederick Douglass’s 1845 visit to Britain Liberating Sojourn (Georgia UP, 1999). His first interdisciplinary monograph Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic was published by Continuum Press in 2003. He is academic advisor to and board member of the Slave Trade Arts Memorial Project (STAMP) in Lancaster which was responsible for the commissioning and building of a monument to the victims of the slave trade unveiled in Lancaster in October 2005.
• Liese van der Watt teaches Art History and Popular Culture at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of a number of catalogue essays and articles that focus on contemporary South African art. She holds a Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook where she was a Fulbright Fellow from 1999-2001.
• Tony Voss retired from the University of KwaZulu Natal at the end of 1995, since when he has been living in Sydney. His research interests are in South African literature, Shakespeare and the Mazeppa motif. Zoë Wicomb is Professor in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde. She is the author of numerous short stories and articles on South African writing and culture and of two books of fiction, You Can’t get Lost in Cape Town and David’s Story. Her research interests are postcolonial theory; feminist theory and black women’s writing; South African literature and ethnic identity; and creative writing.