The Centre for Black Humanities presents:
Professor Lyn Innes (Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent, Canterbury) discussing 'Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain'.
Born and educated in Australia (Sydney University), Lyn studied and taught in USA. and was awarded a PhD (Cornell University, 1973); taught at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama (1968-70), University of Massachusetts (1973-75), where she worked with China Achebe and coedited with him two volumes of African Short Stories. She taught Postcolonial and other literatures at the University of Kent from 1975 till 2005.
Relevant publications include Chinua Achebe (CUP, 1990), Woman and Nation in Irish Literature and Society (Harvester Press, 1993), A History of Black and Asian Writers in Britain (CUP, 2002 and 2008); An Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures (CUP, 2008), The Last Prince of Bengal (Saqi, 2021), Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain (Lutterworth Press, 2025).
Event is co-badged with Literatures of the Global South research cluster