Kenneth W. Harrow is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. His work focuses on African cinema and literature, Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature, Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women's Writing, Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism, and Trash! A Study of African Cinema Viewed from Below. He has edited numerous collections on such topics as Islam and African literature, African cinema, and women in African literature and cinema, including, with Carmela Garritano, A Companion to African Film.