Madina Tlostanova, Dr. of literature and postcolonial studies, professor at the People's Friendship University of Russia, Moscow. Lecturer at Duke University at the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities (Duke University) in collaboration with The Institute for Transcultural and Postcolonial Studies (Inputs, University of Bremen, Germany) and The Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee, Amsterdam, Holland). Her work centers on De-colonial Option & the Humanities.