Molly Brown, who heads the English Department at the University of Pretoria, studied at Rhodes University and the University of London. Her research interests cluster about early modern romance and its contemporary manifestations in popular fantasy, including so-called indigenous or postcolonial fantasy. This has led to work in the field of Global South Studies and South African mythologies. As a life-long reader in a country with low levels of functional literacy, she is also committed both to the promotion of reading and the encouragement of the academic study of children’s literature and storytelling in Africa. She has published in both locally and internationally and her more recent publications include a chapter in The middle ages in popular culture: medievalism and genre, edited by Helen Young, and another in Interkulturelle bildung, migration und flucht, edited by Russ West-Pavlov and Andree Gerland. She also leads the editorial team responsible for Voices of this land: an anthology of South African poetry in English and has a very personal interest in finding ways to reconfigure conceptions of both humanity and identity in postcolonial societies.