Job responsibilities
Anna is a Lecturer in English; module leader for Postcolonial Texts and Twentieth-Century Texts; dissertation supervisor and PhD supervisor.
Research Centre or Group
Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Research, scholarly and professional interests
Anna's research is concerned with the intersection of postcolonialism and feminism, and their growing pertinence to questions of culture, identity and power within the Middle East. She works with both literature and film, and is particularly interested in Palestine and Afghanistan as emergent sites of postcolonial enquiry. Anna has published work on topics ranging from gender in Palestinian cinema to the portrayal of sexual violence in Arab women's writing.
Current projects
Anna is currently completing a monograph entitled 'Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective' (forthcoming with Routledge, 2012).
Information for prospective research students
Anna is interested in supervising projects in postcolonial and/or feminist studies, particularly in relation to Middle Eastern culture. She welcomes interdisciplinary projects that work with literature, film and other forms of visual culture.
Information for prospective clients
Anna was awarded her PhD from the University of Manchester in 2008. She was appointed to the position of Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University in September 2007. Her work has appeared in journals including Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies, and in edited collections in the Routledge series in Post-Colonial Studies. She has also published creative work in several short story anthologies.
