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New. My thesis focuses on post-1948 anglophone Caribbean-British travel narratives and explores to what extent travel writers of Caribbean descent work within or against the genre’s imperial inheritance. Some of my primary texts include: Edgar Mittelholzer’s With a Carib Eye (1958), Caryl Phillips’s The European Tribe (1987), Amryl Johnson’s Sequins for a Ragged Hem (1988), Ferdinand Dennis’s Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain (1988), Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place (1988) and ‘On Seeing England for the First Time’ (1991). My research sits at the intersection of travel writing studies and postcolonial literary theory.
Research Area
Publications
- In collaboration with Richard Bromhall, 'Critical Interventions: Home, Belonging and Krisis', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2016). Link here
- Response: Of Warriors and Soldiers: Explorations of the Noble Warrior in Contemporary New Zealand Literature', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2016). Link here
- 'Response: Africa in Oceana: Thinking Besides The Subaltern', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2015). Link here
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Public Engagement & Impact
- Expressing the In-between: The Representation of Cultural Liminality in Second-Generation Migrant Characters'. European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Languages Studies (EACLALS), Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (October 2016)
- 'Contact Zones and Conflict in Amryl Johnson's Sequins for a Ragged Hem'. University of Birmingham (May 2017)
- 'Writing Back and Looking Inward: Edgar Mittelholzer's With a Carib Eye', Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS), University of Essex (July 2017)
- 'Motivity and Mobility in Jamaica Kincaid's "On Seeing England for the First Time" (1991)', Centre for Travel Writing Studies (CTWS) and Network for American Periodical Studies (NAPS), Nottingham Trent University (September 2017)
- 'I'm a Female Travel Writer - Get Me Out of Here! Caribbean Women, Travelling and Writing', Women's Paths Research Group at University of Leeds, Wharf Chambers, Leeds (March 2018)
- '?A street-name plaque was coloured red, gold and green over the black lettering?: Counter-mapping in Ferdinand Dennis?s Behind the Frontlines', Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place, University of Nottingham (May 2018)
- 'Unlearning and Re-learning: Counter-mapping in Caribbean Travelogues', Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), University of Havana, Cuba (June 2018)
- 'Reading Caryl Phillips and Ferdinand Dennis as Postcolonial Fl?neurs', Borders and Crossings, University of Pula (September 2018)
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