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New lecturer in twentieth-century postcolonial literature, Corrine Fowler.

Literary Appointment to the School of English

Dr Corrine Fowler joins the University of Leicester

01 March 2010

Dr Fowler has recently joined the School of English as a new lecturer in twentieth-century postcolonial literature.

A published short story writer herself, Dr Fowler is committed to the study and promotion of non-commercial creative writing in the Midlands region.

Before coming to Leicester, she worked for four years as a postdoctoral researcher on an AHRC-funded project called Moving Manchester, for which she conducted interviews with creative writers and created an online catalogue of creative writing

In September 2009, she curated an exhibition entitled Writing Manchester: literature in the city since 1960, which aimed to promote the work of independent and community publishers. Dr Fowler is co-authoring a book for Manchester University Press called Postcolonial Manchester. She is keen to develop links with writing and arts organisations throughout the region so that she can promote, and give serious attention, to writing in the Midlands.

Dr Fowler also specialises in travel writing about Afghanistan. Her monograph, Chasing Tales: travel writing, journalism and the history of ideas about Afghanistan (2007) investigates the legacy of traumatic Anglo-Afghan encounter to contemporary travel narratives, ethnography and journalism about Afghanistan.

Dr Fowler is currently editing an annotated reprint edition of a 1907 travelogue (Beatrice Grimshaw: From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands, Humanities e-books, 2009). Also in press is a co-edited volume, entitled Travel Writing and Ethics: Theory and Practice, (Routledge, 2010), which contains essays by scholars of postcolonial theory and travel writing.

Contact details: csf11@le.ac.uk