Kerry Bystrom is Associate Professor of English and Human Rights at Bard College, USA, and Bard College Berlin, Germany. She has published widely on South African literary and cultural studies in journals including Journal of Southern African Studies, African Studies, Social Dynamics, and Comparative Literature. She is the co-editor of a special issue of Cultural Studies on ‘Private Lives and Public Cultures in South Africa’ (2013) and co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Human Rights on ‘Humanitarianism and Responsibility.’ She is an editorial board member of Safundi: A Journal of South African and American Studies.