Judith Misrahi-Barak is Professor Emerita in Postcolonial Studies at the University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France. Her prime areas of specialisation are Anglophone Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean literatures, and Dalit literatures. Her recent publications include Kala Pani Crossings (2021 and 2023); The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India (2023); Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces (2025).

Nandini Dhar is Professor of English Language and Literature at Adamas University, Kolkata, India. Her research focuses on Asian and African diaspora studies, South Asian literature, food studies and global plantation studies. Her recent publications include Contemporary Gender Formations in India: In Between Conformity, Dissent and Affect (2024). She is also a bi-lingual poet who writes in English and her native tongue, Bengali.

Corinne Duboin is Professor of African American and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Reunion Island, France. Her research focuses on the Black diaspora and migrant literature. She contributed to The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 (2022) and co-edited Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Encounters in the English-Speaking World: Rethinking the Other (2023).