Michelle Keown is Professor of Pacific and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is author/editor of various books focused on imperialism and indigeneity in the Pacific, including Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body (2005); Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania (2007); and Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific (2018).  Between 2017 and 2020, she led a Global Challenges Research Fund (UK) project focused on the legacies of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands, working alongside Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Solomon Enos to produce the graphic novel Jerakiaarlap (2019); graphic adaptations of Kathy’s antinuclear poetry; and volumes of Marshallese children’s art and creative writing (see http://www.map.llc.ed.ac.uk).