Andrew Hammond is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton, UK. In both research and teaching, he has specialised in Cold War fiction, postcolonial writing and cross-cultural representation. His publications include Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict (2006), The Debated Lands: British and American Representations of the Balkans (2007) and British Literature and the Balkans: Themes and Contexts (2010).