Staff profiles

Communication & Media

Postcolonial studies generally, including:

• Postcolonial theory [especially Edward Said and Frantz Fanon];
• Postcolonial cultural production [written – e.g. novel and poetry; visual – e.g. film, documentary, graphic art];
• Diaspora and migration studies [theory and cultural production];
• Race, representation and contemporary British culture;
• National identity;
• Utopian studies [theory and cultural production].

International collaborators in connection with a series of research projects focusing on issues of postcolonialism, diaspora and migration include:

• Professor Annalisa Oboe, University of Padua;
• Professor Aurora Garcia Fernandez, University of Oviedo;
• Professor Marta Sophia Lopez, University of Leon;
• Professor Sabine Broeck, University of Bremen.

• Major current project in relation to diaspora: Routledge Companion to Diaspora and Migration Studies, in conjunction with Professor John Noyes and Dr Alison Donnell. This involves contributions from 40 to 50 of the major scholars and thinkers in the fields of diaspora and migration.
• Major current project in relation to post colonialism: book on Postcolonial Utopias, examining the variety of forms – political, spiritual, theoretical, cultural—in which the desire to transcend the limitations of colonialism were embodied.

• Visiting professorships include: University of Paris; University of Leon; University of Padua; University of Trento; Charles University, Prague;University of Oviedo.
• Journal editorial boards include: Theory, Culture and Society; Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
• International assessor for professorial appointments at University of Kansas; Trinity College Dublin; University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (Durban).
• AHRC research grants in 2000 and 2005.
• External examiner for fourteen PhDs.

Research projects currently and previously supervised include: postcolonial theory and textuality; diasporic Cypriot identity in Britain; the political theatre of Athol Fugard; inter-generational use of the Internet in West Africa; postcolonial and diasporic fiction in Britain; inter-cultural identity formation in the UK.