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Anna-Leena Toivanen
Dr Anna-Leena Toivanen is a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, and a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow (MSCA-IF) at Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Etudes Postcoloniales (CEREP), University of Liège, Belgium. Her research focuses on mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in contemporary Franco- and anglophone diasporic African literatures. Her recent work has been published in Studies in Travel Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of African Cultural Studies and Matatu. Her chapter on mobility and labour in contemporary African diasporic fiction features in The Routledge Handbook of African Literature (Routledge, 2019).