English and Scottish Literature Research Events: Anna Bernard

In brief

Date - 1 November 2024

Venue - Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square

Speaker - Dr Anna Bernard (King's College London)

Chair - Dr Hannah Boast

Title - Decolonizing Literature: Theory and Practice

About the speaker

Dr Anna Bernard started at King's College London in 2012, following her first appointment as a lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley and her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2016-17), a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney (2017), an AHRC Research Network grant (2013-16), and a University of York Anniversary Lectureship (2010-11).

Dr Bernard's research is concerned with the literature and culture of anti-colonial struggles that have persisted after the formal end of European imperialism. She is the author of Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine (Liverpool UP, 2013) and Decolonizing Literature (forthcoming 2023, in Polity Press’s Decolonizing the Curriculum series).

How to attend

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