Dr Kirsty Bennett
Honorary ResearcherResearch Interests
- Colonial/Postcolonial Literature
- Middle Eastern/North African History
- Sufism
- Women's History
- Migration History
My article, “‘One thousand and one nights’ of tango: Moving between Argentina, North Africa, and the Middle East,” (Vol. 17, no. 1) won the 2020 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Prize judged by Professor Françoise Lionnet, Harvard University, USA, and Professor Frances Steel, of University of Wollongong, Australia.
Qualifications
- PhD Languages & Cultures, Lancaster University
- MPhil Colonial & Postcolonial Cultures, University of Sussex
- BA English Literature, University of Sussex
Launch of Lancaster Student PEN
Other
Witchcraft and Human Rights UN Experts Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (SFPS) Postgraduate Study Day
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Royal Historical Society (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
MENAWA Reading and Research Group
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (External organisation)
Member of an organisation
Stanmer Prize for Poetry
Other distinction
Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Other distinction
Atlantlic Studies Early Career Essay Prize
Other distinction