Wendy Knepper is a Lecturer in English at Brunel University. Her research and teaching interests lie inmodernist, transnational, postcolonial and contemporary literatures with special interests in women's writing and Caribbean literature, and she is a member of the UK Postcolonial Studies Association. She has a critical introduction to the work of Patrick Chamoiseau forthcoming with University of Mississippi Press and has published articles and book chapters on Jamaica Kincaid, Michael Ondaatje and Caryl Phillips among others.