1. There has been considerable debate over the use of the terms “post-colonial” or “postcolonial” and the signification of the hyphen. While Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin prefer the hyphenated version of the term (“post-colonial”), I prefer the nonhyphenated version (“postcolonial”) and have allowed the contributors to use whichever version they prefer.

2. For a detailed discussion of teaching Australian literature in the United States, see my article “Teaching 'English with a Twist’: Australian Literature in the United States.”

3. Unless they are able to convincingly market themselves as specialists in a different specialty, such as British or American literature.

4. For a definition of “settler colony,” see Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin's Postcolonial Studies and Johnston and Lawson.

5. Gareth Griffiths is actually Welsh but lives and works in Australia.

6. For a more detailed discussion of this issue, see Johnston and Lawson.

7. For more discussion of Indigenous perspectives on Australia's postcoloniality, see Tomoko Ichitani's chapter in this collection, “Negotiating Subjectivity: Indigenous Feminist Praxis and the Politics of Aboriginality in Alexis Wright's Plains of Promise and Melissa Lucashenko's Steam Pigs.”

8. The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography has already indexed 138 articles, book chapters, and books published in 2009 that address postcolonial texts or theory. Given the relatively slow pace of indexing and the fact that the MLA bibliography is not totally comprehensive, many more than 138 works of criticism will have been published in postcolonial studies in 2009. The articles appeared in a wide range of journals, including the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Postcolonial Studies, Francophone Postcolonial Studies, Textual Practice, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Research in African Literatures, Slavic Review, Atlantic Studies, College Literature, and Theatre Journal, demonstrating that scholarship in postcolonial studies is by no means confined to journals that specialize in the field.

9. For example, the Department of English at Western Michigan University added postcolonial theory and literature as a comprehensive exam field in the doctoral program in 2006 and added a graduate course on postcolonial literature in the previous year.