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Dr Lindsey Moore

Lecturer in English Literature

Degree: MA in English (Canterbury, NZ); DPhil. in English (Sussex).

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research, Greater Middle East and Islamic Studies Network

Current Teaching

ENGL 308 Contemporary Literature (Convenor)

ENGL 301 Dissertation (Convenor)

I have also taught on: ENGL 201: Theory and Practice of Criticism; ENGL 302: Women's Writing; ENGL 352: African Literature; ENGL 304 American Literature from 1900 (Convenor); ENGL 369 Twentieth-Century Indian Novel in English (Convenor); MA (CLS): Postcolonial Women's Writing and Film

Doctoral Students:

Current: Berivan Saltik: Honour crime in literature (from Jan. 2011); Aroosa Kanwal: Pakistani and British-Asian Fiction (from Jan. 2009); Sarah Post: Desire, Genre and Postcolonial Britain(from Oct. 2009)

Completed: George Sadaka, Images of the Store in the British Colonial Novel (Feb. 2011); Monique Roffey,The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (London: Simon & Schuster, 2009) (co-supervised with Dr Jo Baker, completed 2008; novel shortlisted for Orange Prize 2010)

Research Interests

My main area of research is the postcolonial Arab world. My first monograph, Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, 2008), is an interdisciplinary examination of a wide range of Arab women's postcolonial fiction, autobiography, film and other visual media. I'm currently co-editing, with Abir Hamdar, a book entitled Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World (contracted to Routledge for their Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World series). The collection grows out of the AHRC-funded project 'Islamism in Arab Fiction and Film, 1947 to the Present' (with Arthur Bradley and Abir Hamdar), 2009-2010: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/islamism/index.htm. I'm also working on a monograph about postcolonial time, focusing on North African and Middle Eastern literary contexts, and on a comparative study of Pakistani and Arab women's fiction in English.

I have wider interests in other postcolonial literatures and theory, particularly South Asian, migrant/diaspora and expatriate fiction and travel writing. I'm a member of the executive of the Postcolonial Studies Association and co-editor of its newsletter; on the editorial boards of the Journal of Commonwealth Writing (UK) and Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (Taiwan); and Interviews Editor for Postcolonial Text (online). At Lancaster, I'm on the steering group of the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research and an organiser of Trans-Scriptions, a series that brings together creative writers, publishers and academics to discuss interfaces between 'Writing, Culture and Location'.

Books

Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World (Routledge US, forthcoming 2012/13). Edited with Abir Hamdar.

Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, 2008).

Special Issue, 'Glocal Imaginaries', Postcolonial Text 6: 2 (2011).

Symposium, 'Glocal Diasporas', Journal of Commonwealth Literature 45: 3 (2010).

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

'Voyages In and Out: Two (British) Arab Muslim Women's Bildungsromane', in Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing, ed. by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (Routledge US, forthcoming 2012).

'Modernity at the Margins: Paul Bowles and Moroccan Collaborations', Journal of Commonwealth Literature 47: 1 (2012): 91-108.

'British Muslim Identities and Spectres of Terror: Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers', Postcolonial Text 5: 2 (2009): unpag.

'Minding the Gap: Migration, Diaspora, Exile and Return in Women's Visual Media', in Contemporary Art in the Middle East, ed. Paul Sloman (London: Black Dog Press, 2009).

'"Darkly as Through a Veil": Reading Representations of Algerian Women', Special Issue of Intercultural Education 18: 4, Contested Imaginaries: Reading Muslim Women and Muslim Women Reading Back (Oct. 2007): 335-51.

'"Some internalisation of the other has already begun": Borderwork/Translation in Writing by Assia Djebar and Ahdaf Soueif', Comparative Literature and Translation/Littérature Comparée et Traduction , ed. CCLMC, Rabat: MJB, 2006.

'Women in a Widening Frame: (Cross-)Cultural Projection, Spectatorship and Iranian Cinema', Camera Obscura: Journal of Feminism and Film Theory 20:2 (2005): 1-33.

'The Veil of Nationalism: Frantz Fanon's "Algeria Unveiled" and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers', Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 25:2 (2003): 56-73.

'Frayed Connections, Fraught Projections: The Troubling Work of Shirin Neshat', Women: A Cultural Review 13:1 (Spring 2002): 1-17.

Reviews, etc

'10 Best Reads in World Fiction', Developments magazine, Department for International Development, September 2010: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Documents/publications1/developments50-news.pdf

'Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence',The Literary Encyclopaedia, August 2010.

'Ahdaf Soueif', The Literary Encyclopaedia, April 2010.

Book Review. Peter Hitchcock, Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism , Nicholas Harrison, Postcolonial Criticism: History, Thoery and the Work of Fiction , Stephen Morton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Textual Practice 181 (Spring 2004): 131-40.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I would be particularly interested in supervising PG research in Arab women's writing in English, French or translation from Arabic; South Asian fiction; African (North and Sub-Saharan) fiction; migrant/diaspora literatures. I will also consider twentieth-century colonial fiction; expatriate fiction; and travel writing.

Other Interests and Hobbies

French (high intermediate); Modern Standard Arabic (advanced beginner)..

Associated Keywords: African Literature, Arab women's writing, Colonialism, Comparative literature, Contemporary women's writing, Cross-cultural encounters, Diaspora, English, Feminist literary and cultural theory, Fiction, Imperialism, India, Indian diaspora, Literary and cultural theory, Literatures of migration and diaspora, Postcolonial cinema, Postcolonial literature, Postcolonial theory, Representation, Transcultural writing, Travel, Twentieth century British history, Twentieth-century literature, World Englishes

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