Brinda J. Mehta is the Germaine Thompson Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mills College at Northeastern University. She is the award-winning author of five books on postcolonial women writers and creative resistance from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East, numerous articles on postcolonial feminist literature, and three co-edited journal issues. Her areas of specialization include postcolonial literature, transnational feminist thought, cultural studies, diaspora and migration studies.