Xinen Liang

Thesis title:

Visual Arts PhD Title

EditMy 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

BLOG POSTS

In collaboration with Richard Bromhall, 'Critical Interventions: Home, Belonging and Krisis', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2016) < https://postcolonialstudiescentre.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/critical-interventions-home-belonging-and-krisis-by-sofia-aatkar-and-richard-bromhall/ >

'Response: Of Warriors and Soldiers: Explorations of the Noble Warrior in Contemporary New Zealand Literature', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2016) < https://postcolonialstudiescentre.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/of-warriors-and-soldiers-explorations-of-the-noble-warrior-in-contemporary-new-zealand-literature-and-culture-ulla-ratheiser-by-sofia-aatkar-26-april-2016/ >

'Response: Africa in Oceana: Thinking Besides The Subaltern', Postcolonial Studies Centre at NTU (2015) < https://postcolonialstudiescentre.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/responseafrica-in-oceania-thinking-besides-the-subaltern-sofia-aatkar/ >

'"To be static is to be dead": An Interview with Jacob Ross', Peepal Tree Press (2018) < http://www.peepaltreepress.com/blog/news-authors/be-static-be-dead-interview-jacob-ross >

ARTICLES

Aatkar, Sofia, 'Behind the Frontlines: Journey into Afro-Britain', Literary Encyclopedia (2016) < http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35705 >

Aatkar, Sofia, 'Ferdinand Dennis', Literary Encyclopedia (2016) < https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13667 >

Butler, Rebecca, and Sofia Aatkar, 'From ?colour and flair? to ?a corporate view?: evolutions in guidebook writing: an interview with Jenny Walker', Studies in Travel Writing, 21.2 (2017), 208-220

Conferences

I have attended the following conferences in 2019:

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Conference 2 where blah won an award for blah
Conference 3 where I didnt blah.

Public Engagement & Impact

Year: 2015 - 2016

Research assistant for Dr Beth Driscoll from the University of Melbourne.
Research Seminar 'Brown Bag' (April 2016), Nottingham Trent University.
Co-organised and co- hosted a research seminar entitled 'Crime and the Postcolonial in Australian Literature' with Dr Carina Hart (April, 2016), Nottingham Trent University.

Year: 2016-2017

Hosted a session, 'Talking About Caribbean Travel Writing', as part of Nottingham Trent's Global Week (March 2017)
'Caribbean Journeys' project through Journey to Justice, with Kelsyn Delany (ongoing). An article by J.H. Lewis (Nottingham Post) about the first workshop can be found here: https://repeatingislands.com/2017/05/30/how-nottingham-is-keeping-caribbean-heritage-alive/. The participants produced two collective poems, one about what home and the other about journeys (see below).
PubhD (August 2017)

Year: 2017-2018

SAF representative for M3C students at NTU
Hosted a session about "Impact" at the student-led Midlands Research Skill Share (October 2017)
Held a Caribbean travel writing workshop at Nottingham Central Library as part of Black History Month with Kelsi Delany. Our session featured on Notts TV (October 2017)
Kelsi and I spoke during October Dialogues at Nottingham Contemporary about our work with Journey to Justice and the National Caribbean Heritage Museum (October 2017)
Undertook a 2 month placement with Peepal Tree Press
Presented a paper at the public-facing seminar Caribbean Feminisms, Diasporic Identities. See section titled Conference Papers for details.
Co-organised Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place. This took place 30th-31st May 2018 at University of Nottingham. It was funded by a CDF.

Other Research Interests

Travel writing
Postcolonial theory
Feminism
British migrant fiction
Romani Literature
Publishing

Memberships

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Hobbies

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