Anshuman A. Mondal is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia. His research focusses on the construction of modern social and political identities, and the cultural politics attendant upon them. A cultural historian of colonial and post-colonial South Asia and the Middle East, he has written extensively on nationalism, communalism and religious politics, and the constitution of a racialized modernity in both global South societies and western liberal democracies. He has published extensively on Islamism, on young British Muslims, on Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, and also on Brexit. His books on these topics include Nationalism and Post-colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt (2003), Amitav Ghosh (2007), and Young British Muslim Voices (2008).