The Leeds Postcolonial Research Group (LPRG) was founded in 2001 in order to further the significant work being done in Postcolonial studies at the School of English, extend the disciplinary range of postcolonial studies both within and beyond the university and make a series of mutually beneficial links: regionally, nationally and abroad.

Internationalist in spirit, interdisciplinary in method, the LPRG is a forum for comparative postcolonial literary and cultural studies, and for wide-ranging debates on urgent social, cultural and political issues in the contemporary postcolonial world. It celebrates the literary and cultural diversity of formerly colonised societies while enquiring into the new transnational dispensations that mark an increasingly globalised world.

In thus seeking to counteract enduring legacies of cultural imperialism, we are aptly situated within the Leeds-Bradford region of West Yorkshire, where local history, postindustrial landscape and richly diverse demography come together in an intricate web of both empire and postcolony.