Prof. Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures in the Department of English and academic lead for the Faculty of Arts' Centre for Black Humanities. Her research considers contemporary African writing in the context of transnational, world and global literary production. She is the author of three monographs, most recently Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018.
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