Josie Gill is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Biofictions: Race, Genetics and the Contemporary Novel (Bloomsbury, 2020), which won the British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize and was shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English First Book Award. She has written about literature and literary studies in relation to a range of topics including bioarchaeology and transatlantic enslavement, black health, racial science, epigenetics and the movement to decolonise universities. In October 2022 Josie was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize and she is currently working on a new book project, Black Lecturer.