Prem Poddar is Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. He is the author of Violent Civilities (2002) and has edited Translating Nations (2000) and Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective (2007). Rajeev Patke is Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Long Poems of ... Read moreWallace Stevens (Cambridge UP, 1985) and Postcolonial Poetry in English (Oxford UP, 2006). He has edited Europe in Post-colonial Narratives for The European Legacy (2002), and co-edited Complicities, Connections and Divisions: Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region (Peter Lang, 2003) and Institutions in Cultures: Theory and Practice (Rodopi, 1996). He is the co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English (2009). Lars Jensen is Lecturer at Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University. Show Less