Tony Simoes da Silva joined the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages at the University of Wollongong in mid-2007, where he is a lecturer in Transcultural Studies. Prior to this, he taught English in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University, and between 2000 and 2005 he was at the University of Exeter, in the United Kingdom. He has taught also at the University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University, both in Perth, Australia. His research spans Anglophone and Lusophone postcolonial writing and theory; contemporary writing in English more generally; postcolonial life writing and critical theories.
