Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinarity and English at Stanford University.  He was educated at the University of Ghana and at Cambridge University.  He taught at Cambridge, the University of Toronto, NYU before coming to Stanford.  He is the author of 6 monographs and 10 edited collections.

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures and Curatorial Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. She is the author of three monographs, including Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, and has edited three essay collections. Mukherjee’s books-in-progress are A Very Short Introduction to Postcolonial Literature (OUP) and Mavericks and Charlatans: Empire, Modernity, and the Authorization of Dreams (Princeton UP).

Elleza Kelley is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, and affiliate faculty in American Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and her B.A. from Wesleyan University. Kelley works on African American literature, with an emphasis on black geographies and radical spatial practice in the United States. Her current book project, Flight Lines: A Poetics of Black Space, examines how African American literature and visual art index black spatial thought and practice through experimentations with form, genre, and media. In particular, Flight Lines attends to the multivalent ways black people have engaged with U.S. geographies of racial enclosure, tracking the interface between black form and black space.