I am interested in the ways in which literature imagines and enacts a more equitable and just society, with a particular focus on the aesthetics of contemporary postcolonial and feminist writings. My first monograph, published in 2020, reads representations of ‘race’, ethnicity and gender in non-naturalistic British drama.
I served on the executive committee of the international and interdisciplinary Postcolonial Studies Association for six years, as Newsletter Editor (2011-2014) and Vice-Chair (2014-2017).
I am a member of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies, and am also affiliated with the Black British Women Writers network.
Within the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading I convene the ‘Identities’ research cluster, which brings together staff and postgraduate students who share an interest in the discursive construction of identities across a range of historical periods and literary forms.
I served on the University of Reading Faculty (of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) Board for Research and Innovation as a postgraduate researcher from 2011-2012.