Dr Rehnuma Sazzad is an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and an Associate Tutor at the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia. She is an Associate Editor and a Reviews Editor of Journal of Postcolonial Writing, an Editorial Advisory Board Member for English: Journal of the English Association, and a co-editor of The Journal of Historical Fictions. Her first monograph, Edward Said’s Concept of Exile: Identity and Cultural Migration in the Middle East (2017), creates a portrait of redoubtable intellectual practice in today’s world by adding new depths to discourses of resistance, home and identity. She has published various pieces on postcolonial and world literatures (e.g. The International Journal of Human Rights 2021, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2016, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 2015, and Middle Eastern Studies 2012); and is currently working on her second monograph reflecting on linguistic nationalism in decolonized South Asia.