Dr Kirsty Bennett

Honorary Researcher

Research 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.