Decolonial Hope: Planetary Sustainability and Literary Responses

Goutam Karmakar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India, with affiliations and research positions at Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), University of Cologne, Germany, and the Faculty of Arts and Design, Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received several fellowships, including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany, National Research Foundation awards in South Africa, and the MIASA Individual Fellowship in Ghana. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial and decolonial studies, cultural studies, and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.

Janet M. Wilson is Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She earlier taught for a decade in the Department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research spans postcolonial memory, diaspora, authorship, trans-culturalism, and the cultural politics of Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and has co-edited volumes on postcolonial writing, transnationalism, and diaspora. She is Co-Editor of the series Studies in World Literature, Chair of Challenging Precarity: A Global Network, and recently co-edited Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability (2025).