Dr Ball is Programme Leader for the MRes in English Literary Studies and Module Leader for second and third-year modules including 'Postcolonial Texts'. She supervises research at BA, MRes, MPhil and PhD level and teaches widely across the fields of contemporary literary studies, postcolonial studies and gender studies.
Dr Ball is a member of the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Dr Ball'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 literature, film and visual culture, and is particularly interested in Palestine and Afghanistan as emergent sites of postcolonial enquiry. She has published work on topics ranging from gender in Palestinian cinema to the portrayal of sexual violence in Arab women's writing and has created an exhibition and film season on Palestinian visual culture. Her monograph, Palestinian Literature and Film in postcolonial Feminist Perspective, was published on the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures Series in 2012. Also deeply interested in theoretical questions of space, border-crossing and embodiment, she is currently working on a new monograph, The Body in Flight, which explores the gender politics of mobility in narratives of refugee experience.
Dr Ball is interested in supervising projects in postcolonial and / or feminist studies, particularly in relation to Middle Eastern culture, to questions of space, place and embodiment, and / or to narratives of refugeeism and displacement. She welcomes interdisciplinary projects that work with literature, film and other forms of visual culture. Further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School
Dr Ball sits on the Academic Working Group for the Public Programme at Nottingham Contemporary, and on the Gallery Curatorial Board for the Bonington Gallery, NTU.
Selected publications
- Impossible Intimacies: Towards a Visual Politics of ‘Touch’ at the Israeli-Palestinian Border. Ball A, Journal for Cultural Research, 2012, 16 (2-3), 175-195
- Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective. Ball A, Abingdon, Routledge. 2012
- ‘Here Is Where I Am’: Re-Rooting Diasporic Experience in Leila Aboulela’s Recent Novels. Ball A, in Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millenium, ed. S Lawson and J Wilson, 2010, 118-127, London, Routledge
- Between a Postcolonial Nation and Fantasies of the Feminine: The Contested Visions of Palestinian Cinema. Ball A,Camera Obscura, 2008, 23 (3), 1-35
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