Liminal diasporas in the era of COVID-19

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Rahul K. Gairola

Rahul K. Gairola is The Krishna Somers lecturer in English and postcolonial literature and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He is the co-editor and author/co-author of five books including Memory, Trauma, Asia (forthcoming, 2021), South Asian Digital Humanities (2020), Migration, Gender and Home Economics in Rural North India (2019), and Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging (2016). He previously taught at The City University of New York, USA, and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He is (with associate professor Bina Fernandez, University of Melbourne) co-editor of the Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Book Series.

Sarah Courtis

Sarah Courtis is an Associate Lecturer of career learning at Murdoch University in Western Australia. In 2019, she earned a PhD on the lyric in musical theatre, for which she wrote the book and lyrics of 2084: A Musical (2016). Her academic interests are varied, as she has presented on Shakespeare, musical theatre, Tolkien studies, and diasporas. She is a fellow of Advance HE and works as a theatre practitioner.

Tim Flanagan

Tim Flanagan lectures in philosophy at Murdoch University, Western Australia. His research examines ongoing themes in the history of philosophy, especially with regard to the development of topics in aesthetics and metaphysics. He is co-editor (together with Wahida Khandker) of the series Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy and author of the forthcoming monograph Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances. He previously taught at Dundee, Greenwich and Wolverhampton universities in the UK.