Professor Charlotte Baker

Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies

Current Teaching

FREN100/101 Shaping Contemporary France

FREN233 Shaping Contemporary France: Moments and Movements

DELC320 Final Year Dissertation

DELC345 Francophone Voices: Literature and Film from sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Canada

DELC340 Autocrats, Dictators and Caudillos: Dictatorship and Representation in the 20th and 21st centuries

Selected Publications

Enduring Negativity: Representations of Albinism in the Fictional work of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine
Baker, C. 02/2011 Oxford : Peter Lang. 226 p. ISBN: 9783034301794.
Book

Expressions of the body : representations in African text and image.
Baker, C. 09/2009 Oxford : Peter Lang. 372 p. ISBN: 978-3-03911-546-4.
Book

Sassine 'Saint Monsieur Baly'.
Baker, C. 06/2010 Glasgow : Glasgow French and German Publications
Other

Necropolitical violence and post-independence Guinean literature
Baker, C. 1/11/2014 In: International Journal of Francophone Studies. 17, 3-4, p. 305-326. 22 p.
Journal article

Enhancing the Educational and Social Inclusion of PWA in Sierra Leone
05/02/2024 → 31/07/2024
Research

Alternative Explanations for Disability: Inspiring patient-centered care among healthcare practitioners through the arts
01/01/2024 → 31/12/2024
Research

Demystifying Albinism in Rural Malawi
01/01/2024 → 31/07/2024
Research

Understanding the Educational Experiences of Children with Autism in Kenya
21/07/2023 → 31/08/2024
Research

Informing Policy for the Alternative Care of Children with Albinism Vulnerable to Attacks
01/04/2023 → 01/07/2024
Research

Engaging albinism advocates in West Africa in regional collaboration on advocacy and research
01/03/2023 → 31/07/2023
Research

IAA: Stimulating positive action in response to the UN Resolution on the Elimination of Harmful Practices related to Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks (UN Resolution Impact)
01/03/2023 → 31/12/2024
Research

Implementing UN Resolution 47/8
02/01/2023 → 31/12/2024
Research

IAA - AHRC Impact Acceleration Account
01/04/2022 → 31/03/2026
Research

Alternative Explanations: Disability in African Contexts
01/02/2020 → 30/09/2022
Research

From Violence to Dignity: Albinism in Malawi
02/09/2019 → 30/09/2020
Research

The Francophone African dictator-novel
04/09/2017 → …
Research

Impact and Knowledge Exchange Grant, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
08/09/2015 → …
Other

Changing perceptions of albinism in Africa
05/01/2015 → 04/08/2015
Research

Lancaster University Knowledge Exchange Fellowship: Enhancing Contemporary Understandings of Albinism in sub-Saharan Africa
01/07/2014 → 31/08/2015
Other

Exploring interdisciplinary approaches to albinism in sub-Saharan Africa
01/09/2013 → 31/03/2014
Research

Multilingual Creativities
24/02/2013 → …
Other

The West African dictator novel
01/01/2013 → …
Other

International Albinism Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Conference on Albinism
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

FHASS Research Culture Day
Participation in conference - Academic

'Alternative Explanations' project
Invited talk

International Forum on the Education, Globalisation and Intercultural Communication of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Duolingo Westminster Awards
Other

Launch of new resource for healthcare professionals in Nigeria
Other

The work of the International Network against Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Advantage Africa Presentation and Networking
Oral presentation

Disability and Witchcraft-related Harm: Global Perspectives
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Andrew Betts
Hosting Charity Organisations

Disability and Society (Journal)
Editorial activity

Disability and witchcraft-related harm
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Witch Hunts in the 21st Century public workshop
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Witchcraft and Human Rights, past, present, future: Implementing Resolution 47/8
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Witch Hunts Now: A Human Rights Catastrophe in Photographs
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Disability and Healthcare in South Africa: A collaborative writing workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Disability, the Arts and Healthcqre Equity
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

DeLC Postgraduate Study Day
Participation in conference - Academic

Centring Voices of Persons with Disabilities in Healthcare Systems
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

400 years on from the Lancashire witches
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Albinism Advocacy, Human Rights and the CRPD
Business Course/Training

Digging Deep@ Securing Grants for Africa-focused Research and Engagement
Symposium

Queer Medical Humanities Network: Public Research Showcase
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Day of Persons with Disability 2023 event
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Invisible Disabilities Forum
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Responses to A/HRC/RES/47/8 on the Elimination of harmful practices related to accusations of witchcraft and ritual attacks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Understanding Stroke as a Disabling Condition: The Disability Inclusion Africa project
Invited talk

Inclusive Healthcare Spaces
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Talk to Shireshead MU
Types of Business and Community - Hosting of external, non-academic visitor

Side Meeting to the UN Human Rights Council
Participation in conference - Business/Professional

Wellbeing and health research in the arts, humanities and social sciences
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Online Conference on Harmful Practices Related to Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

International Online Conference on Harmful Practices Related to Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Biannual Conference of the Disability Inclusion Africa Network
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Disability and African Indigenous Thought
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Alternative Explanations: Disability Research in the Global South - Postgraduate webinar
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Alternative Explanations: Disability and Inclusion Africa
Invited talk

The Disability Inclusion Africa Project
Invited talk

Disability and Inclusion Africa
Invited talk

Public Health and ‘Witchcraft’ Beliefs
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

ESRC Festival of Social Science
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Public lecture: Albinism in Africa
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Campus in the City 2019
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Schools talk: Albinism in Africa
Invited talk

Witchcraft Beliefs and Human Rights: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Representations of Persons with Albinism and Awareness of Human Rights
Invited talk

Witchcraft and Human Rights: from Horror to Hope
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Countering Dangerous Speech: Shifting discourses of albinism in Africa
Invited talk

Words that Kill
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Words that Kill
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

French Medico-Textual Cultures
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Translation Lancaster
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Writing for Liberty 2017
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

'Translated from Gikuyu by the Author': Ngugi wa Thiongo's Self-Translation of Wizard of the Crow'
Invited talk

Univ Leicester, University of Leicester
Visiting an external academic institution

First International Workshop on Albinism in sub-Saharan Africa
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Writing for Liberty
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Liverpool University Press (Publisher)
Editorial activity

Border Masculinities
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

21st Century Engagements
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Colloque « Williams Sassine n’est pas n’importe qui »
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Multilingual French Identities
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Multilingual French Identities
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Revisiting the First International Congress of Africanists in a Globalised World
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Researching Africa: Postgraduate Research Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Journal of Arts and Social Sciences (Journal)
Editorial activity

International Journal of English and Literature (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies (Journal)
Editorial activity

Postcolonial Bodies
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies (External organisation)
Membership of committee

Journal of African American Studies (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Minorités en vue colloquium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

French Studies (Journal)
Publication peer-review

Round table
Invited talk

Africa: Cultural Translations
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Pre-film presentation of Amélie
Invited talk

Interview with Pap Ndiaye, author of La Condition Noire (2008)
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Outstanding Contribution to Engagement
Prize (including medals and awards)

University Staff Award for International Impact
Prize (including medals and awards)

Lancaster University Award for Research Impact - Highly Commended
Prize (including medals and awards)

  • African Studies Group
  • FASS Health Hub
  • Multilingual Creativities
  • Performing Identities
  • Poetics of Resistance