Debjani Ganguly is Head of the Humanities Research Centre in the Research School of Humanities, Australian National University, Canberra. She is literary and cultural historian and has published in the areas of postcolonial studies, global Anglophone writing, theories of world literature, caste and dalit studies, cultural histories of mixed race, the cosmopolitanism of Gandhian thought, and Indian literary criticism. Her recent publications include Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds ( Orient Blackswan, 2005), Edward Said: The Legacy of a public Intellectual (co-ed, MUP, 2007) and Pigments of the Imagination (Journal of Intercultural Studies, special issue, co-editor, 2007)

John Docker is Adjunct Professor in the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National Univeristy, Canberra. Since the publication of 1942: The Poetics of Diaspora (Continuum, 2001), he has researched and written on monotheism and polytheism and most recently, ion genocide in relation to the Enlightenment and to colonialism. He has recently published Is History Fiction (University of Michigan press, 2005), co-authored with historian Ann Curthoys, and The Origins of Violence.