Dr Lindsey Moore

PhD Supervision Interests

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

Current Teaching

On sabbatical Term 2, 2010-11.

ENGL 369 Twentieth-Century Indian Novel in English (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); MA (CLS): Postcolonial Women's Writing and Film

Doctoral Students:

George Sadaka, 'Images of the Store in the British Colonial Novel' (Oct. 2007- ); Aroosa Kanwal, 'Representations of Pakistan in Pakistani and British-Asian Fiction' (Jan. 2009 - ); Sarah Post, 'Reconstructions of Britain in Immigrant Literature' (Oct. 2009 - ); Monique Roffey,The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (London: Simon & Schuster, 2009) (co-supervised with Dr Jo Baker, completed 2008)

Research Interests

My first book, 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 continue to work on Arab women's writing and visual media, and on postcolonial women's writing more broadly. My contribution to Contemporary Art in the Middle East, ed. Paul Sloman (London: Black Dog Press, 2009) was positively reviewed in the Guardian Review in October 2009. I recently edited a symposium on 'Glocal Diasporas' for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2010) and am editing a special issue of Postcolonial Text (forthcoming, 2011/12) entitled 'Glocal Imaginaries'. I have also written on expatriate American writer Paul Bowles. I am currently writing an article on representations of Islamism in selected contemporary Arab fiction and developing a new comparative book-length project on postcolonial women's writing in a 'glocal' frame.

I am the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project 'Islamism in Arab Fiction and Film, 1947 to the Present' (with Dr Arthur Bradley and Dr Abir Hamdar), Feb. 2009 - Feb. 2010. Please see our website at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/islamism/index.htm

I am on the steering group of the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research and a co-organiser of Trans-Scriptions, a series that brings together creative writers, publishers and academics to discuss interfaces between 'Writing, Culture and Location'. The most recent event, held in May 2008, focused on 'Migration, Memory and Mood in "Multicultural Britain', and featured guest speakers Fadia Faqir and Zineb Sedira. Under the auspices of the Centre, I co-organised the IAS-funded 'Regarding War: Image/Text' with colleagues in English & Creative Writing and LICA, an online archive of creative imagery and writing that reflects upon the experience of contemporary war(s) from perspectives in the North-West.

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