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R. Benedito Ferrão is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies at the College of William and Mary, with an affiliation in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from Birkbeck College, University of London, as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, and conducted postdoctoral research as an Endeavour Fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. His work focuses on Afro-Asiatic connections in postcolonial contexts, diaspora narratives, and critical race, gender, and sexuality studies.
Dr. Ferrão has held prestigious fellowships, including the Fulbright-Nehru Award (2019-20) and the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence Fellowship (2020-21). He curated the 2017 exhibition Goa/Portugal/Mozambique: The Many Lives of Vamona Navelcar and edited its companion book. His scholarly writing appears in Research in African Literatures, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, and Society and Culture in South Asia, alongside creative works in The Wire and Mizna.
His research explores transnational fiction, decoloniality, and the intersections of race and space in postcolonial South Asia and the Indian Ocean world. Recent articles address topics like Goan cultural aesthetics, queer ecology, and the legacy of colonialism in contemporary art and literature.
