Dr Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy is Lecturer in French at Christ Church College, and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (ODID, RSC). She is also Sir William Golding Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College. Ashwiny's research focuses on identities, race, gender, migration, refugees, home, hauntings and human rights. Her first monograph, Locating Hybridity (2015) centred language, identities and embodiment in Francophone Ananda Devi's works. Her second monograph, Migrant Masculinities in Women's Writing (2021) examined gender, race, hospitality, community and vulnerability in works by writers from Cameroon, Senegal, China, Mauritius, Algeria and Vietnam. Her most recent monograph, Refugee Afterlives (2024) engages with two generations of Francophone and Anglophone Vietnamese refugee (s') children's works across genres and forms, focusing on axes of home, hauntings and hunger. Her current book project looks at memoirs and documentaries of refugee children's experiences across geographical spaces.  She has also published a range of articles in journals on works by: Assia Djebar, Kim Thúy, Léonora Miano, Fatou Diome, Malika Mokkedem, Charles Habonimana and Ananda Devi.