Stéphane Robolin is an associate professor of Literatures in English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He teaches courses in African and African diaspora literature, postcolonial studies, critical race studies, and spatial theory. Robolin is the author of Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing (University of Illinois Press, 2015), which won the 2017 ALA First Book Prize in Scholarship. Some of his scholarship has appeared in the journals Research in African Literatures, Modern Fiction Studies, Safundi, and Literature Compass, and anthologies including Global Circuits of Blackness: Race, Citizenship, and Modern Subjectivities (University of Illinois Press, 2010) and Foundational African Writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi & Es’kia Mphahlele (Wits University Press, 2022). A recent Scholars-in-Residence fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Robolin currently serves on the executive council of the African Literatures Association. He is at work on a study examining the transnational movement of books banned in apartheid South Africa entitled Subterranean Circulations.