Notes on Contributors

Keith Appler

teaches at the Department of English, University of Macau. He writes on American drama and theater and their cultural and institutional locations. He is particularly interested in the relationship between multiculturalism and a continuing avant-garde. His work has appeared in journals such as Modern Drama, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and American Drama.

Shilpa Daithota Bhat

is Assistant Professor at Ahmedabad University, India. She has a PhD from Gujarat University. Her areas of interest are South Asian Literature, Diaspora and Postcolonial theories, Canadian Studies and Children’s Literature. She was Visiting Professor, McGill University, Montreal (2017); Visiting Professor, York University, Canada (2015). She visited Trinity College, University of Toronto (Commonwealth Fellowship, 2011–12), University of Western Ontario (2011), Korea University (pancs Grant, 2011) for research and conferences. She has authored Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives: Animalizing the ‘Native’, 1830–1930 (Rowman and Littlefield, US, 2017); edited Diaspora and Homing in South Asian Women’s Writing:Beyond Trishanku (Edited Anthology, Rowman and Littlefield, US, 2018).

Etienne Boumans

MA, MSc, llm, is an independent scholar, researching minority and disability rights, popular culture, and the arts. Boumans has published on European policies, human rights, film history, and cultural heritage issues. He is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and Chair of Flemish Visual Arts evaluation committee (2019–2023). An expert on Flemish cultural heritage, Boumans serves on EU Horizon2020 evaluation committees and is board member and Project Manager of Friends of Bruges’ Museums. He has also worked as Administrator of European Parliament’s Human Rights Unit and Head of European Parliament’s committee secretariat on Culture and Education.

Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Lisboa, Helena Buescu collaborates as Visiting Professor with universities in Europe, USA, Brazil and Macao, China. She works on comparative literature and world literature, and has published in Portuguese and international periodicals and books. She is founder-director of the Centre of Comparative Studies, University of Lisboa, and has served on several international boards: icla, hermes, Synapsis, inch, Inst. World Literature. She serves in European Evaluation Committees, and is a member of Academia Europaea, St. John’s College of University of Cambridge, and Academia das Ciências de Lisboa.

Önder Çakırtaş

has recently been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Roehampton. Having received his PhD from Süleyman Demirel University in 2015, Çakırtaş specializes in modern/contemporary British drama, more specifically political and psychological drama-literature. He is the author of Politics and Drama (1st edition: Apostolos, 2016; 2nd edition: Wipf & Stock, 2019) and editor of Ideological Messaging and the Role of Political Literature (igi Global, 2017). Teaching English Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bingol University, Çakırtaş has also co-edited The Politics of Traumatic Literature: Narrating Human Psyche and Memory (Cambridge Scholars, 2018) and Literature and Psychology: Writing, Trauma and the Self (Cambridge Scholars, 2019). His current research project is on Muslim Representation in 21st Century British Theatre, which is to be finalized as a book-length study in 2020.

Patricia P. Chu

is Professor of English at George Washington University (Washington, DC). A graduate of Yale and Cornell, she recently served as Global Humanities Exchange Scholar to the University of Macau. She has authored Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (Duke University Press) and Where I Have Never Been: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return (Temple University Press, 2019). Her essays appear in Arizona Quarterly, Diaspora, The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature, The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature, and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature.

Onoriu Colăcel

is Senior Lecturer in English at Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania. He works on postcolonial studies, cultural memory and patterns of self-identification in literature, media and popular culture. His authored books include Postcolonial Readings of Romanian Identity Narratives (2015) and The Romanian Cinema of Nationalism. Historical Films as Propaganda and Spectacle (2018).

Matthew Gibson

is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau. He is the author of Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage (Macmillan Press, 2000), Dracula and the Eastern Question: British and French Vampire Narratives of the Nineteenth Century Near East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), and The Fantastic and European Gothic: History, Literature and the French Revolution (University of Wales Press, 2013). He is currently writing a new book on Modernism and Philosophy.

Everton V. Machado

received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne/Paris IV in 2008. He is currently Principal Researcher (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC) of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL). He co-directed the CEC (2016-2019), where he also developed the exploratory research project “The Portuguese Representations of India: Power and Knowledge in a Peripheral Orientalism (19th and 20th centuries)”, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (IF/01452/2013). Among his publications is O Orientalismo Português e as Jornadas de Tomás Ribeiro: caracterização de um problema (Lisbon, National Library of Portugal, 2018), as well as a scientific edition of India’s first Portuguese-language novel, Os Brahamanes (1866) by Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869) (Les Brahmanes, translated from Portuguese to French by L. de Claranges-Lucotte, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2012).

Katrine K. Wong

is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau, where she also works as the Director of the University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement. She teaches in the areas of English Renaissance Drama and Autobiography. Her work on music and theatre includes Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama (Routledge, 2013) and journal articles in Adaptation and Early Theatre. She also works on Macao Studies, research of which has appeared in Pacific Affairs and Macao – Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations (Routledge, 2014). She is the commissioned editor of Catholic Music in Macao in the Twentieth Century: Music Writers and their Works in a Unique Historical Context (Instituto Cultural de Macau, 2015). Wong is also a classically trained pianist and operatic soprano, holding professional titles of ftcl (Solo Piano) and ltcl (Voice Performance) from Trinity College London. She is Conductor of Coro Perosi of Macao.