R. Benedito Ferrão has lived and worked in Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. He is Assistant Professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies at the College of William and Mary, illiamsburg, Virginia. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Mellon, Endeavour and Rotary programs, as well as the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies. Curator of the 2017–18 exhibition "Goa, Portugal, Mozambique: The Many Lives of Vamona Navelcar", he edited a book of the same title (Fundação Oriente 2017) to accompany this retrospective of the artist’s work. His scholarly writing appears in various international journals and edited books, including Research in African Literatures, Society and Culture in South Asia, Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization: South Asia in the World Perspective (Routledge 2021) and Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism (HKU Press 2017). His fiction and creative non-fiction can be read in Riksha, The Good Men Project, Mizna and The João Roque Literary Journal, while his op-eds have appeared in Scroll and The Wire.