Diana Brydon is a literary critic known internationally for her multifaceted and ground-breaking contributions to postcolonial literary and cultural studies, Australian and Canadian literary studies - including co-editing the first book analyzing Shakespeare in Canada- and the pioneering of collaborative, interdisciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences. She has become a key figure in postcolonial and now globalization studies because of her commitment to the re-¬conceptualisation of the humanities and their relation to globalization. She has a strong record of bringing people together in collective projects that are shifting the terrain of knowledge production.