Neelam Srivastava is Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She obtained her D.Phil. in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford in 2004, with a thesis on
Secularism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy: History, Nation, Language. Her Examiners were Professor Robert Young and Professor Leela Gandhi. She has a first degree from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, where she worked with Professor Sandro Portelli and Professor Paola Colaiacomo. Her research interests include the cultural history of Italian colonialism, postcolonial South Asian literature, anticolonial and antifascist writing (Antonio Gramsci, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Frantz Fanon in particular), and postcolonial print cultures. In 2016, she co-founded the
Postcolonial Print Cultures International Network with Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. Her most recent publications include the co-edited volumes
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures (London: Bloomsbury, 2023) and
The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization, and Postcolonial Print Cultures (Open Book Publishers, 2022). She is also the author of
Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930–1970 (London: Palgrave, 2018) and co-editor, with Baidik Bhattacharya, of
The Postcolonial Gramsci (London: Routledge 2012). She is the author of
Secularism and the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives (London: Routledge, 2008).