Oliver Lovesey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada. He has authored a number of monographs on George Eliot and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and edited Victorian Social Activists' Novels, The Mill on the Floss, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngugi, and a Popular Music and Society special issue: 'Popular Music and the Postcolonial'.