Distinguished Professor of the Departments of Comparative Literature and English
University of California, Irvine
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature and Distinguished Professor of the Departments of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine.
Lecturer
University of Toronto
Rebecca Wiseman is currently a lecturer in the English department at the University of Toronto. She holds her Ph.D. in Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, her thesis is entitled Negotiating Subjectivity in Early Modern English Poetics. Her research interests include early modern literature and culture; poetry and poetics; literary criticism and theory; aesthetics; the history of rhetoric; and early modern religion.
Parliamentary Group Leader
Communist Party of India
Sitaram Yechury is currently a member of the Polit Bureau, Head of the International Department and Editor of the CPI(M) Central Weekly, Peoples' Democracy. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of the Indian Parliament) and leader of the CPI(M) Group in Parliament.
