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Sari Andajani is an associate professor, senior lecturer and Deputy Associate Dean International, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a recipient of the Australian IDSS scholarship. Sari has nearly twenty-five years experience in development work and research in the Southeast Asian region. She spent almost ten years working with communities and public health offices in ten provinces of Indonesia, including Jawa and Eastern Indonesia provinces. Her research is participatory, community-based, and promotes capacity building and community empowerment in studies on gender justice and development, women's health, maternal and child health, and sexual and reproductive health.
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Muhammad Sohail Ahmad received a Ph.D. degree in English literature with distinction from Chonnam National University, South Korea. Currently, he is working as an assistant professor of English at the University of Education, Lahore. In addition, he is also In-charge of the English department and a member of (Board of Study) at the University of Education Lahore. He has published several research papers in reputed national and international journals with an impact factor. He works as a reviewer for several national and international journals. He has chaired multiple sessions at national and international conferences. In addition, he served as a keynote speaker. He also organized research seminars, webinars, and literary activities. Currently, his research focuses on migrants' and immigrants' trauma, their culture, languages, and beliefs. ORCiD link: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4750-4583
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Moussa Pourya Asl is an Affiliate at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oulu, Finland, where he conducts research as part of the Trans-Atlantic Impacts (TAI) within the Transcultural Encounters Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). His primary research interests lie in diasporic literature, as well as gender and cultural studies. He has edited two books: Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women (2022) and Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East (2023). In addition, he has guest-edited two special issues on postcolonial and diasporic literature and theory for The Wenshan Review.
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Riza Candra is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist and has more than ten years experience working in HIV. At the time of the study, he was undertaking Voluntary and Counselling Testing in a public hospital in South Sumatra, a referral hospital for COVID-19. Riza's insider knowledge was key to our interpretation of findings regarding Indonesia's current capacities to address the COVID-19 pandemic and moral panic.
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Bilal Asmat Cheema (Former Campus Coordinator of the English Department) is a Lecturer of English in the Department of English at the University of Education, Lahore (Pakistan) where he teaches Contemporary Literary Theory, South Asian Literature, Pakistani Literature in English, and Greek Drama. His academic and research interests include South Asian Diaspora Literature and Postcolonial Fiction. He has more than fifteen years of teaching experience at the post-graduate level. He has also authored/co-authored a few research articles in local and foreign journals. Currently, he is working on his PhD dissertation on Pakistani Anglophone Fiction. ORCiD link: orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-5405.
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Sharyn Graham Davies is an associate professor and Director of the Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She received her PhD from the University of Western Australia and prior to her appointment at Monash was at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in New Zealand. Sharyn has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge, Yale, Sydney, Peking and Airlangga universities, and has been awarded Fulbright, Leverhulme and Marsden funding. Sharyn is recognised internationally as an expert in the field of Indonesian Studies and for her contributions to the study of gender, sexuality, policing, social media, and moral surveillance. |
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Tom Graham Davies is a lecturer in Monash University. He is a former academic at Auckland University of Technology. Tom completed his PhD in Environmental Sociology at Auckland University in 2010, examining how Sustainable Development theory might be incorporated into public planning processes. He has taught in a variety subject areas, including environmental philosophy, economics and Sustainable Development.
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Ashwani Dubey is a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna), pursuing a Ph.D. in Transgender Health. His research focuses on the comprehensive understanding of health issues among the transgender population in India, with a particular emphasis on public health interventions and policy implications. His research endeavours aim to bridge gaps in healthcare disparities through rigorous academic inquiry and empirical analysis....
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Somayeh Esmaili is an adjunct professor of English at Golestan University, Iran. She holds BA and MA degrees in English Language and Literature from Golestan University and the University of Gorgan. She has published nationally and internationally and specialises in postcolonial literature, a focus reflected in her thesis on decolonised trauma, memory, and identity.
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Richard Gehrmann is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Southern Queensland. He completed graduate studies at the University of Cambridge on acculturation and the representation of ethnic identity, and has published on ethnic identity and the migration dimensions of intercountry adoption. He is interested in evolution of cultural identity, Australia-Asian relations at the personal level, and the Australian representations of war in Afghanistan and Iraq with a focus on intercultural differences. Richard's publications include Communication, Interpreting and Language in Wartime (with Amanda Laugesen, Palgrave Macmillan 2020) and Memory and the Wars on Terror (with Jessica Gildersleeve, Palgrave Macmillan 2017).
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Lynsey Haught is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham. Her thesis compares the New Woman ideals manifested in the female characters of Victorian and late Ottoman/early Republic female novelists, particularly in the intersection of personal spirituality and the majority faith system with developing democratic concepts of women's identities and roles in society.
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Neha Kumari is an Assistant Professor at Sri Balaji University, Pune, India. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. She has published research articles in reputed journals, indexed in Scopus, and Web of Science. Neha is editor of Fat Studies, Taylor & Francis. She is an academic editor of the Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and an editorial board member of the Indian Journal of Health, Sexuality, and Culture.
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Kusnan graduated at the School of Graduates and Professional Studies in INCEIF, Malaysia and currently is a lecturer and researcher at IBA university, South Sumatera, Indonesia. Kusnan has presented his working papers in some international conferences in Islamic Economics and Finance. Kusnan is interested in various research fields including Islamic finance, Islamic studies, shadow banking, politics and humanities and currently published several papers related to Islam, Sharia economic and community empowerment. (email: kusnan@iba.ac.id) |
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Joy Mazahreh is an English PhD student at the University of Minnesota. She studies contemporary postcolonial theory and literatures from Lebanon, Palestine, and Egypt with special attention to the works of Edward Said. Originally from Amman, Jordan, she received her BA in English from the University of Jordan and then was awarded a Fulbright grant to pursue her MA in the US from the University of Vermont. Joy's MA thesis, 'Alef is a Key: Belonging and Resistance in MENA Women's Fragmentary Narratives,' views narrative shifts as literary devices that mediate meanings of war, exile, home, belonging, and resistance.
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Najmah is an associate professor and senior lecturer in the Public Health Faculty of Sriwijaya University, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Najmah was awarded a prestigious New Zealand Scholarship for her doctoral studies and graduated from Auckland University of Technology in 2020. Najmah is the author of four books of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and an editor of three books related to Data analysis and research methodology in Public Health and English camps in Indonesia. She is currently writing her fifth book in qualitative approach and enthusiasm in Feminist and Participatory Action Research. Najmah's research interests are HIV, women and COVID-19.
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Lillian Nguyen (she/they) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and earned an MEd in Educational Psychology (Human Development, Culture, & Learning Sciences) from the University of Texas at Austin. Their research interests centre the experiences of people with multiple marginalised identities, such as QTBIPOC at the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. They examine experiences of minority stress as it relates to education, psychological wellbeing, and public health. Lillian is also interested in the ways people practise affirmation and empower themselves and their communities when navigating discrimination and challenging oppressive systems. |
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Behzad Pourgharib is an Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Mazandaran. His diverse research interests include American and African Literature, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Ecocriticism, and Translation Studies. With more than thirty-five papers published in both national and international journals, Behzad frequently presents his work at global conferences. He has authored three books and translated one, all with reputable publishers.
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Papia Raj is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. She is an expert on gender studies, specialising on social determinants of health. Papia has completed her M.A. and M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was the recipient of Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and completed her Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Montreal. She was a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Population and Public Health at University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Papia has received research funding from various national and international organisations for conducting research on various dimensions of gender and haa extensively published her research findings in both national and international journals of great repute.
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Flora Roussel holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and General Literature from the Université de Montréal (Montreal/Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang), Canada. Her work brings a feminist, queer and intersectional perspective to the notion of affect as it is articulated by corporeality and performativity. She is currently working on her first monograph, in which she analyses sexuality, subjectivity and writing practices in the novels of four contemporary authors: Wendy Delorme, Akwaeke Emezi, Charlotte Roche and Kanehara Hitomi. She is also interested in exophonic literature, especially as exemplified by the novels of Yoko Tawada. Her research has been published in both national and international journals (Études littéraires africaines, Germanica, Études francophones, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, among others), and she has presented her work in Canada and abroad.
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Muhammad Safdar is an Assistant Professor of gender and literary studies at the Faculty of Languages and Literature, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. His Ph.D. is in English literary studies, focusing on Muslim feminist and gender subjectivities at the intersection of gender, religion, and mobility. His research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals and books published by SAGE, Routledge, Wiley, Springer Nature, and IGI Global. He voluntarily serves as a part of the editorial team of the journal Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific with special responsibilities for South Asia. Alternative email: Muhammad.safdar@ucp.edu.pk. ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3927-3781.
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Suhana Simran has completed her Master's in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and holds an undergraduate degree in English from Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her areas of interest include Girlhood Studies, chick lit, gothic/horror studies, digital feminism, and popular culture. She has presented her work at several national and international conferences.
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Rajni Singh is Dean (Corporate Communications) and Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad. She has supervised 26 PhD theses to completion and has extensively published in international journals of repute. She has been intensively working in the field of women's and gender issues for two decades now. She has carried out several translational research on women's issues and transgenders in India. Her ground breaking works on Transgender inclusivity in India funded by the National Human Rights Commission and ICSSR have been recognised by the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
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