Susheila Nasta is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literatures at Queen Mary University of London, and founding editor of Wasafiri, the UK's leading magazine for international contemporary writing.
11 Facts About Susheila Nasta
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Susheila Nasta is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature.
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Susheila Nasta grew up in India, Germany and The Netherlands, before returning to Britain to complete her education.
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Susheila Nasta undertook undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Kent, and the University of London.
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Susheila Nasta has held posts in different departments at several universities, including at the University of Cambridge, the University of North London, the University of Portsmouth, the Open University, where she held a chair in Modern Literature and is Professor Emeritus, and at Queen Mary University of London, where she taught between 1992 and 2000, before rejoining in 2017 as Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literatures.
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Susheila Nasta has initiated and led numerous research projects, and since 2007 has led a major public-engagement project on Asian Britain.
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Susheila Nasta co-edited The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing, published in 2020, acknowledged as the first such academic collection to cover some 300 years of Black and Asian British literature.
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Susheila Nasta has curated and advised on such exhibitions as At the Heart of the Nation: Indians in Britain, and 2018's Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land for the British Library.
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Susheila Nasta has published widely on post-colonial and contemporary writing, particularly on literature from the Caribbean, the South Asian diaspora and black Britain.
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Susheila Nasta has special expertise in the work of Samuel Selvon, Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, as well as on women's writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia.
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In 2011, Susheila Nasta was appointed an MBE in the New Year Honours for her services to Black and Asian Literature.