Anjali Prabhu is Professor and Edward W. Said Chair in Comparative Literature at UCLA. The author of Hybridity: Revisions Transformations, Prospects (2007) and Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora (2014), her work has appeared in journals such as Diacritics, French Forum, Levinas Studies, Œuvres et critiques, Research in African Literatures, Journal of French and Francophones Studies, Cinema Journal, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Studies, Contemporary Literary Studies, and PMLA. She was the Director of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College and currently serves on the Executive Council of the MLA.