Prof. Bill Ashcroft is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of post-colonial theory, co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to offer a systematic examination of the field of postcolonial studies. He is the author and co-author of sixteen books and over 180 articles and chapters variously translated into six languages and he is on the Editorial Board of ten international journals. His Representative works include ReaderThe Post-colonial Studies Reader; Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts; Edward Said; Postcolonial Transformation and On Post-colonial Futures; and Caliban's Voice. He holds an Australian Professorial Fellowship at the University of NSW.