MONICA POPESCU is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures at McGill University. She is the author of聽South African Literature Beyond the Cold War聽(which won the 2012 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities) and聽The Politics of Violence in Post-Communist Films, and co-editor of a special issue of the聽Journal of Postcolonial Writing聽on聽Alternative Solidarities: Black Diasporas and Cultural Alliances during the Cold War. Together with Katie Zien and Sandeep Banerjee, she is the co-editor the Routledge Series in Cultures of the Global Cold War. She has published articles on African culture and the Cold War, postcommunist cultures, post-apartheid literature and nationalism, which have appeared in journals like聽Studies in the Novel,听Research in African Literatures,听Current Writing, and聽The Yale Journal of Criticism. She is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled 鈥淎frican Literatures, Postcolonial Cultures and the Cold War鈥� (under contract with Duke University Press).