Elizabeth (Liz) Mackinlay is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland where she teaches Research Methods, Gender Studies and Arts Education. She holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from The University of Adelaide and a PhD in education from the University of Queensland. Her book, Teaching and learning like a feminist: Storying our experiences in higher educationwas published by Sense Publishers in 2016 and together with Briony Lipton, co-authored the 2017 Palgrave publication, We only talk feminist here: Feminist academics, voice and agency in the neo-liberal university. Her most recent book, Critical writing for embodied approaches: Autoethnography, feminism and decoloniality was published by Palgrave in 2019. In 2007 she published her Education PhD as a book, Disturbances and dislocations: Teaching and learning Aboriginal women’s music and dancewith Peter Lang and has co-edited a number of books since then including Musical islands: Exploring connections between music, place and research (2009), Applied ethnomusicology: Historical and contemporary approaches (2010), The Routledge international handbook of intercultural arts (2015).
At ELS 2020, Liz will deliver a plenary talk on Teaching and learning like a feminist: storying our experiences in higher education.
Prof Balaji Ranganathan is the Chairperson of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at the Central University of Gujarat.
His areas of specialization are Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Orientalism, India and Political discourse, Psychoanalysis, Archaeology, and Ancient India, Indian Bronze sculptural studies, and Ancient Indian Numismatics.
At ELS 2020, Prof. Balaji will deliver a plenary talk on Reading War and the Literary Imagination.
Prof. David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. His nine books include What Is World Literature? (Princeton, 2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (Holt, 2007), How to Read World Literature (Blackwell, 2d. ed. 2017), Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age (Princeton, 2020), and Around the World in 80 Books (forthcoming from Penguin). He is the general editor of the six-volume Longman anthologies of British Literature and of World Literature, and editor or co-editor of fifteen other books. He has given several hundred lectures in fifty countries around the world, and his work had been translated into an eclectic variety of languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
At ELS 2020, Prof. Damrosch will deliver a keynote on World Literature in and through English.
