Iain Chambers is Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies  at the Università L’Orientale in Naples where he is also President of the Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies. He is in charge of project MeLa*: European Museums in an Age of Migrations. Among his English publications are: Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity (2008), Culture After Humanism: History, Culture, Subjectivity (2001), and The PostColonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons (1996) edited with Lidia Curti. He contributes to the magazines: Third Text, New Formations, Studi Culturali, Postcolonial Studies, Translation and Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo.