Ashley Dawson is Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His field of specialization is postcolonial studies. Areas of interest of his include the experience and literature of migration, including movement from colonial and postcolonial nations to the former imperial center (Britain in particular) and from rural areas to mega-cities of the global South such as Lagos and Mumbai. He has also worked on contemporary discourses of US imperialism, on the rhizomatic organizing forms of the global justice movement, and on emerging global discourses of environmental governance.
Dawson is the author of Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (Verso 2017), Extinction: A Radical History (O/R 2016), The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature (Routledge2013), and Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (University of Michigan Press 2007), and co-editor of Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities (Haymarket 2015), The State, Democracy, and the Struggle for Global Justice (Routledge 2009), Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus (University of Michigan Press 2009), and Exceptional State: Contemporary US Culture and the New Imperialism (Duke University Press 2007).
He has published articles in journals such as African Studies Review, Atlantic Studies, Cultural Critique, Interventions, Jouvert, Postcolonial Studies, Postmodern Culture, Screen, Small Axe, and Social Text.
