Dr. Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English at Stanford. He has held fellowships at the Du Bois Institute for African American Studies at Harvard (2004) and the Research Centre in the Humanities at Australian National University (2015). Dr. Quayson has published six monographs and eight edited volumes, and is the founding editor of The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.