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Janet M. Wilson is professor emeritus of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. Her research focuses on the diaspora and postcolonial writing of the settler colonies of Australasia, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism and transculturalism. Katherine Mansfield is a special area of interest. From 2010-20 she was Vice-Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Her most recent publications are “‘Being at sea’: Sea Journeys in ‘The Stranger,’ ‘The Voyage,’ and ‘Six Years After’”, in Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield : A Manuscript Critical Edition, edited by Todd Martin (2023), and “Broadcasting the Stories of Katherine Mansfield: The BBC Written Archive Centre”, in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives, edited by Jamie Callison et al (2024). She is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and chair of Challenging Precarity: A Global Network.

Tracy Miao is Associate Professor at Xi’an International Studies University in China. Her research interests focus on the cross-border exchanges, borrowings, and hybridisations between the arts in modernist literature and international modernism. She was the winner of Katherine Mansfield Society’s 2020 Essay Prize, and the winner essay ‘Casting a “haunting light”: Katherine Mansfield’s Modernist Vision of Childhood’ was published in Katherine Mansfield Studies Vol.13 (2021). Her publications include: “Children as Artists: Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Innocent Eye’” (2014), “Artistic Coalescence and Synthetic Performance: Katherine Mansfield and her ‘Rhythms’”(2016), “Converging the Artificial and the Natural: Katherine Mansfield’s Actual and Imagined Botanical Gardens” (2018), “Katherine Mansfield and the East” in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield (2020), and “Waves and ‘moment[s] of suspension’: Katherine Mansfield’s Painterly and Kinetic Language in Fiction” in Katherine Mansfield: International Approaches (2022).