Sukhdev Sandhu, DPhil, MA (Oxon) was born in West London and educated at Oxford. He was a postdoctoral fellow at NYU's International Center for Advanced Studies from 200-2001. He joined APA as an Assistant Professor in English Literature in September 2001. His publications include Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters (1997) and Black British Writers, the first volume of Pickering and Chatto's 'Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation' series (1999). He is currently working on a study of Asian and Caribbean descriptions of London since 1700. He also writes for the London Review of Books, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. back