Ato Quayson

Ato Quayson (born 26 August 1961) is a Ghanaian academic and literary critic, who is University Professor, Professor of English and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora Studies at the University of Toronto. His writings on African literature, postcolonial studies, disability studies, urban studies and in literary theory have been widely published. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and the Royal Society of Canada (2013). He is founding editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and is on the editorial boards of Research in African Literatures, the University of Toronto Quarterly, and New Literary History. He was Chief Examiner in English of the International Baccalaureate (2005–07) and has been a member of the Diaspora and Migrations Project Committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UK, and the European Research Council award grants panel on culture and cultural production.

Born in Ghana, Quayson earned his BA at the University of Ghana and his PhD from Cambridge University in 1995. He went on to Oxford University as a Research Fellow, before in September 1995 returning to Cambridge as a Fellow at Pembroke College and a member of the Faculty of English, where he eventually became a Reader in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.

He was a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar from 1991 to 1994 and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. He held research fellowships at Wolfson College, Oxford (1994–95) and at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University (2004). In 2011–12 he was the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the Newhouse Centre at Wellesley College. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Society of Canada.

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