Dr Maria Ridda

Maria Ridda is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kent and convenor of the Centre for the Global Study of Empire seminar series. She specialises in contemporary South Asian writing, Mediterranean studies, and the intersection between the idea of Europe and Empire today. Prior to Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City, Maria published, Imagining Bombay, London, New York and Beyond: South Asian Writing from 1990 to the Present (2015). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Interventions, Postcolonial Studies and Postcolonial Text. She is the co-editor (with Birk Laursen, et al.) of ‘Decolonising the State’ (2020).