Hadji Bakara is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of a special issue of JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory on “Refugee Literatures,” and his writing on human rights and migration has appeared in PMLA, American Literary History, German Quarterly, The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. With Charlotte Sussman and Josephine McDonagh, he is co-editing the Oxford Handbook to Literature and Migration. He has recently completed his first book, Governments of the Tongue: A Literary History of Human, and is at work on a second, Refugee Futures: A Political Theory of Time.