Dr Lucy Evans
BA MA PhD Leeds
Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature
Contact Details:
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T: +44 (0)116 252 2626
Research Interests
Dr Evans specialises in postcolonial literature, especially contemporary Caribbean and black British literature. Her recent research has focused on constructions of community in Caribbean short stories: she has written articles on Dionne Brand, Mark McWatt, E.A. Markham, Robert Antoni, and V.S. Naipaul and has co-edited a collection of critical essays, The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives (Peepal Tree Press, 2011), which explores the significance of the short story form to Caribbean cultural production through the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. She is writing a book, Communities in Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories, for Liverpool University Press.
Dr Evans is developing a research project on Caribbean 'fictions of crime', and was awarded British Academy funding for archival work in Jamaica which will contribute to this. In relation to this project, she co-organised an international conference at the University of Leeds in September 2010 entitled Crime Across Cultures, and co-edited a special issue of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings and a symposium in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature on the same topic.
Postgraduate Supervision
Dr Evans would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students with research interests in postcolonial literature particularly in the following areas:
- Caribbean literature and popular culture
- Black British writing
- Comparative postcolonial literature and theory
- Readerships and publishing history
Teaching and Administration
- EN1010 Reading English
- EN1020 A Literary Genre: The Novel
- EN2060 Concepts in Criticism
- EN3040 Postwar to Postmodern: Literature 1945 - Present Day
- EN3010 Dissertation
- EN3192 Transcultural Writing and the Publishing Industry
Dr Evans also contributes to the MA in Modern Literature, the MA in Humanities, and the MA in English Studies
Administrative roles: School of English Career Development Officer; member of the Learning and Teaching Committee; EN2060 convenor
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