Biography: Janet M. Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton and Visiting Professor of the Birmingham Institute of Media and English, Birmingham City University, UK. Her research focuses on the diaspora and postcolonial writing of the settler colonies of Australasia, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism and transculturalism. Recently she has coedited The Diaspora Studies Reader (Routledge, 2017), the volumes, Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (2020), and “Katherine Mansfield: The Gift of Breath” (2020), a special issue of the Journal of New Zealand Literature. In addition are two special issues of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing: one with Om Prakash Dwivedi and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, on “Planetary Precarity and the Pandemic” (2020) and another on “New Zealand and the Globalization of Culture” (2020) with Paloma Fresno Calleja She has also edited The General and the Nightingale: The War Stories of Dan Davin (Otago University Press, 2020). She is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the series, Studies in World Literature (Ibidem-Verlag), chair of Challenging Precarity: A Global Network, and from 2020-22 was Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Diaspora Screen Media Network. In 2022-23 she is Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, UK.