Sarah Casteel is an Associate Professor in the Department of English where she teaches postcolonial and diaspora literatures and Graduate Supervisor of the Institute of Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. Her research areas include Caribbean literature and hemispheric approaches to the literatures of the Americas as well as theories of diaspora and transnationalism. She is the recipient of a Polanyi Prize from the Government of Ontario, a Horst Frenz prize from the American Comparative Literature Association, and a FASS research award. She is the author of Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia University Press, 2016), Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas (University of Virginia Press, 2007) and the co-editor of Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010).