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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:

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.My primary research continues to focus on literatures of the Arab world. I am currently co-editing a book entitled Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World (contracted to Routledge for their Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World series) with Abir Hamdar. The collection grows out of our recent AHRC-funded project 'Islamism in Arab Fiction and Film, 1947 to the Present' (with Arthur Bradley and Abir Hamdar), 2009-2010. Please see our website and catalogue at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/islamism/index.htm. I have a chapter on British Arab women writers forthcoming in Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing, ed. by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey and Amina Yaquin (NY: Routledge, forthcoming 2011). I am also working on a book-length project about postcolonial time, focusing on North African and Middle Eastern literary contexts.

My wider interests are in postcolonial literatures more broadly, particularly South Asian and migrant/diaspora fictions. I recently guest-edited a Special Issue of Postcolonial Text (2011) entitled 'Glocal Imaginaries' and a Symposium on 'Glocal Diasporas' for the Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2010), both of which grew out of the international conference Glocal Imaginaries held at Lancaster and Manchester in 2009. I have also recently completed an article on expatriate American writer Paul Bowles and his Moroccan collaborations.

I am a member of the executive of the Postcolonial Studies Association and co-editor of its newsletter. I'm on the editorial boards of the Journal of Commonwealth Writing and Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (Taiwan). I am Reviews Editor for Postcolonial Text.

At Lancaster, 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'.

Monograph

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

Edited Collections

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

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

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

Refereed Journal Articles

'Modernity at the Margins: Paul Bowles and Moroccan Collaborations'. Under review.

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

'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.

Chapters in Books

'Voyages In and Out: Two (British) Arab Muslim Women's Bildungsromane', in Culture, Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing, ed. byRehana Ahmed, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (Routledge US, forthcoming 2011).

'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).

'"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.

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 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.

Other Interests and Hobbies

French (advanced); 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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