Bill Ashcroft is Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of postcolonial theory, and author of 21 books and over 200 articles and chapters. Co-editor of The Postcolonial Studies Reader (with Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin), he is also co-author of The Empire Writes Back (also with Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin), the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies. Gareth Griffiths is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is a pioneer in the field of postcolonial studies, He has also written extensively on African literatures, and theatre. He has authored and edited 15 books and more than a hundred articles and chapters. Helen Tiffin is Adjunct Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She has authored or edited eight books and over 80 articles and chapters on postcolonial literatures, literary theory, and animal and environmental subjects.