Aliyah Khan (aliyrhan@umich.edu) is Associate Professor of English, and Afroamerican and African Studies and Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work lies at the intersections of postcolonial Caribbean literature, global Muslim and Islamic literatures, and posthuman environments. She is the author of Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean (Rutgers University Press and University of the West Indies Press 2020), which received honorable mention in the 2021 Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. Khan’s creative nonfiction and academic writing also appear in Pree: Caribbean Writing, GLQ, Caribbean Quarterly, the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, and the Journal of West Indian Literature, among other venues. Her interviews have appeared in and on National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Sapelo Square, the Black Agenda Report, and other media.