Ben Etherington, along with Anthony Uhlmann, managed the Dialogues Theme of the project. He is Associate Professor in English at the Western Sydney University. His work focuses on the relationship between literature and decolonization. His book, Literary Primitivism (Stanford UP, 2018), argues that primitivism was a vexed utopian project taken up most vigorously by colonized artists, and his current project, which is supported by an ARC Discovery Grant, traces the emergence of a creole poetics in the Caribbean from the end of slavery through to its flourishing at the time of political independence. He is the editor, with Jarad Zimbler of the Cambridge Companion to World Literature (2018).
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