River Spirit gives a nuanced exploration of faith through a vivid and...

New Work inModernist Studies 16 We are delighted to announce that the sixteenth conference on New Work in Modernist Studies (NWiMS) will be taking place in person on Friday 11th December 2026, loca…

Explore Rehnuma Sazzad's biography, career, books, research, education, and lasting contributions to postcolonial studies.

This year's annual conference will take place online, 1-4 July, 2026, from 12:00-18:00 BST. If you have any queries or difficulties with this form or registering for the conference, please contact us ...

This book offers a comparative study of how language movements shaped divergent paths of nation-building in postcolonial South Asia.

This book offers a comparative study of how language movements shaped divergent paths of nation-building in postcolonial South Asia.

Please join us in London on 27 May 2026 for this year’s Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Mark Steven (University of Exeter). Mark’s lecture,&nbs…

Decolonial Hope: Planetary sustainability and literary responses; Guest Editors: Goutam Karmakar and Janet M. Wilson. Volume 62, Issue 1 of Journal of Postcolonial Writing

This book offers a comparative study of how language movements shaped divergent paths of nation-building in postcolonial South Asia.

Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Schools from the Arab region, Africa, Asia, South America and Europe - came together to celebrate International Mother Language Day under the theme “Many languages, one future: Youth voices on

Rehnuma Sazzad is an author and scholar known for postcolonial thought, exile studies, and powerful literary analysis.

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…

PUBLIC EVENT | June 24, 2024 | 10.00 - 19.00 | Universiteit van Amsterdam Fanon at 100, the Pragmatics of Freedom: Aesthetics, Care, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution

This event is to commemorate the centennial of Frantz Fanon's birth (July 20, 1925). With David Theo Goldberg, Norman Ajari, Rehnuma Sazzad, Layal Ftouni, and Wayne Modest. | ​​​​​​​Tuesday, June 24 ,...

This year 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Nations. While some scholars see it as an embarrassing legacy of the British Empire that should be allowed to wither away, the modern C...