Dr Nicola Frith is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and is a specialist in Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Slavery Studies. She is the author of a monograph entitled The French Colonial Imagination: Writing the Indian Uprisings, 1857–58, from Second Empire to Third Republic (Lexington Books, 2014). Her research focuses on memories of slavery, activism and reparations, and engages with how the slave past continues to adversely affect contemporary French society. She focuses in particular on the socio-political contexts in which activist movements and memorialization processes have emerged within the French Republic and its overseas departments. Her current project is funded by the AHRC under the Leadership Fellows Scheme and is entitled ‘Mapping Memories of Enslavement: Commemoration, Community and Identity in Contemporary France’. She has a number of publications related to memory, slavery, politics and reparations, including articles in Modern & Contemporary France and the Irish Journal of French Studies, a chapter in France’s Colonial Legacies: Memory, Identity and Narrative, and is the editor (alongside Dr Kate Hodgson from the University of Liverpool) of the latest edition of Francophone Postcolonial Studies (2015) in which she has a single-authored chapte