Daniel Elam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. In 2018-2019, he was a Fellow in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University; in 2015-2016, he was the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow in ‘Bibliomigrancy’ at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern University.

He is the author of World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (2020) and Impossible and Necessary (2020). He has co-edited two volumes on revolutionary anticolonial writing, Reading Revolutionaries (with Kama Maclean, 2014) and Writing Revolution (with Kama Maclean and Chris Moffat, 2017). He is the editor of the Bloomsbury Press Anthology of Political and Aesthetic Theory from the Global South (2022). He is currently writing a book about anticolonial sociology, a biography of his great-uncle, and a book about MK Gandhi’s popularity in the US.

HKU Collaborator: Fermentation, Culture & Creative Practice

Project Lead: Routs and Rootes: Walking Tours of South Asian Hong Kong