Ashwani Sharma is a London based independent scholar. His interdisciplinary teaching, research and writing interests include: race, history and anti-colonial and black cultural theory; diasporic and global film and contemporary art; urban culture and music; open access publishing and radical study. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, an associate of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), UAL, and the Sonic Screen Lab, UAL. Ashwani is completing a book examining the political aesthetics of diasporic culture. He is the founding co-editor of darkmatter journal, and the co-editor of Disorienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Music (Zed Books). He is an advisor for the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies journal, and for Soundings: A journal on politics and culture. Ashwani writes and performs poetry. He has worked for the BBC and in independent film/sound, DJs, and has been an aeronautical engineer.