Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches at the School of Humanities, University of Kent (UK), where he served as Head of School from 2021 to 2024.

Abu-Manneh is author of The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present (2016) and Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939 (2011). He has also edited a collection of essays on Edward Said – as literary critic and postcolonial theorist – entitled After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2019), and has recently published on Fanon and on Said, empire, and the English novel. He is a regular contributor to Jacobin magazine and is on the editorial board of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory & Strategy.

Abu-Manneh teaches courses on Global English and Literatures of the Middle East as well as on Marxism and Postcolonial Theory.

Abu-Manneh has a D.Phil. in English Literature from the University of Oxford.