Jessica Hemmings is currently Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Research interests span material culture and literature to include the often marginalised voices of postcolonial literature and contemporary craft / lifewriting and embodied knowledge / Zimbabwe and Indonesia / storytelling in the archive. Jessica is Editor of The Textile Reader (first edition in 2012) which is the first anthology to address textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and a developing field of scholarly research.