Ashley Dawson is Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His field of specialization is postcolonial studies. Areas of interest of his include the experience and literature of migration, including movement from colonial and postcolonial nations to the former imperial center (Britain in particular) and from rural areas to mega-cities of the global South such as Lagos and Mumbai. He has also worked on contemporary discourses of U.S. imperialism, on the rhizomatic organizing forms of the global justice movement, and on emerging global discourses of environmental governance. Dawson is the author of "Extinction: A Radical History" (O/R Books, 2016), "The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Routledge, 2013), and "Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain" (University of Michigan Press, 2007), and co-editor of "Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities" (Haymarket, 2015), "The State, Democracy, and the Struggle for Global Justice" (Routledge, 2009), "Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus" (University of Michigan Press, 2009), and "Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism" (Duke University Press, 2007). He has published articles in journals such as African Studies Review, Atlantic Studies, Cultural Critique, Interventions, Jouvert, Postcolonial Studies, Postmodern Culture, Screen, Small Axe, and Social Text.He blogs regularly at ashleydawson.info