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Details for Dr Madhu Krishnan
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| Name | Dr Madhu Krishnan | ||||
| Job title | Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Writing |
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| Department | Department of English University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | MA (Stanford), MA (Nott.), PhD (Nott.) | ||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | African Studies Association, UK; African Literature Association; Postcolonial Studies Association; European Association for the Study of Commonwealth Languages and Literature; Modern Language Association; British Comparative Literature Association |
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| Keywords | African literature postcolonialism race book history world literature contemporary literature prize culture African cinema |
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| Areas of expertise | My expertise is in contemporary African literature and culture, with a significant interest in political and social formations. I work on both continental and diasporic African writing, cinema, art and publishing, in both print and digital forms. I am particularly interested in constructions of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, as well as the demarcations of local and global which define Africa in a transnational, world context. My research is broadly interdisciplinary, drawing on literary criticism, historical studies, material cultures, sociology and politics, and in recent years I have developed public engagement work around the black and African presence in Britain, both in the contemporary period and historically. I have additional expertise in contemporary literature and prize culture, especially the Man Booker Prize. |
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| Media experience | I have worked extensively with radio both nationally and in Bristol, and I blog regularly for a variety of mainstream and specialised publications in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. |
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