Dr. Lincoln Z. Shlensky is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria. His research and teaching bring together postcolonial literature, Jewish and diaspora studies, and film and media studies. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and supervises graduate students.

Beyond the classroom, he chairs the Working Group to Address Antisemitism and spearheaded the creation of the Jewish Academic Hub at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (CSRS).

His scholarship explores questions of memory, diaspora, identity, postcoloniality, and cultural representation across literary, cinematic, and public spheres. His publications include articles, essays, and chapters appearing in Prooftexts, Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World, Callaloo, Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century, The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Ruptured Commons, and AJS Perspectives.