Amber Lascelles

I joined RHUL in September 2022 as Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature. My research considers how contemporary fiction of the African diaspora enables new ways of conceiving the relationship between race, embodiment and literature. I am especially interested in how literature intervenes in Black feminist discourse and concerns in a range of texts by African, Black British, and Anglophone Caribbean women writers.

• EN1107 Reorienting the Novel
• EN3226 The Postcolonial Novel: The Art of Resistance
• EN5125 MA Modernist and Contemporary Literature

My research and writing has been published in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Wasafiri. I am currently developing my first monograph, Radical Bodies: Reimagining Solidarity in Contemporary Black Feminist Fiction, which traces how contemporary Black women writers intervene in global conversations about Black feminism by transforming the theory and practice of solidarity. Examining writing by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Bernardine Evaristo, my book is concerned with how fictional bodily encounters spark moments of tension and rapport that generate solidarity. 

Previously, I was the Research Associate for the Wellcome-Trust funded project Black Health and the Humanities at the University of Bristol, which involved developing a network of scholars working in this area. 

For me, education is a tool for liberation. I have worked with a range of organisations to deliver inclusive education events and initiatives, including the British Library, Nottingham Contemporary, Surviving Society podcast, The Lit Collective Sheffield, NextSteps Bristol, and the Harris Federation.