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Dr. Roxanne Douglas

Roxanne is a Teaching Fellow for the English and Comparative Literary Studies Department. She specialises in feminist theory, World-Literatures, Arab feminist writing, postcolonial feminism, Gothic studies, and zombie fiction.

Contact:

R.Douglas.2@warwick.ac.uk

Teaching 2021/22:

EN122 - Modes of Reading - Convenor

EN2H2/EN3H2 American Horror Story: U.S. Gothic Cultures, 1619 to TomorrowLink opens in a new window

EN3L3 Research Project workshopsLink opens in a new window

UG Dissertation supervision

MA Dissertation supervision

1-1 Academic Writing Support

Reading Groups 2021/22:

UG Feminist Reading Group

PG-Staff Feminist Reading GroupLink opens in a new window

Conference organizing:

Women in World(-)LiteratureLink opens in a new window (hybrid, 22nd and 23rd June 2022) - co-organiser with Dr Fiona FarnsworthLink opens in a new window

Selected publications:

Situating Arab Women's Writing in a Feminist "Global Gothic": Madness, Mothers, and Ghosts
Journal article in Feminist Theory. 2021. Read here.

Decolonizing the Undead: Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media
Edited collection, in development with Bloomsbury. I am co-editor alongside Dr Guilia Champion and Prof. Stephen Shapiro. Slated release August 2022. Pre-order hereLink opens in a new window.

Selected conference papers:

'She Stood Steadfast as a Volcano Dispensing Words Like Ashes': Considering L’écriture Féminine in Arab Feminist Writing in English
Keynote for 'Arab Literature in English: Re-writing Gender, Race, Politics and Culture', Coventry University 30th April 2021. Register Here.

Imbricating Feminism and World-Literature in Arab Women’s Writing: The Gothic As ‘Critical Irrealism’
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Post-Millennial MENAWA: New Approaches to Literature, Translation, and Creative Expression’.
Hosted by the Middle East, North Africa & Western Asia (MENAWA) Research Group at Lancaster University, June 2022. Online.

“My body died, but my spirit would not give up”: Noisy Ghosts and Death Defiance in Egyptian Feminist Writing
'The Remains of the Body: Legacy and Cultural Memory of Bodies in World Culture', The University of Warwick 22nd May 2021.

Caught Red-Handed: Bloodied Hands in Arab Women's Writing.
‘Talking Bodies’, conference. University of Chester, April 2019.

Selected Pedagogic CPD workshops:

Risky Classrooms

What Do You Mean??: Supporting Undergraduate Essay Writing

Supercharged Speaking: Online Workshop

Work Not in Progress (CSWG series): Emotions and Connections in the Socially Distanced Classroom

Student Support 2020/21:

Campus walking groups

Additional:

WATE Award Winner - Butterworth Award 2021

WATE PGR Award Winner 2018, Nominee 2017

Volunteer Tutor, The Brilliant Club

Editorial board, The Journal of International Women's Studies

Committee member and Special Events co-ordinator, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender (CSWG)

Project co-ordinator, Virgin Territory/Shut Down at the University of Warwick

Podcasts: queer/disrupt guest, 'Putting the "Bro" in "Bromance: Discussing The Left Hand of Darkness'. Listen here.

 LDCU Podcasts: Talking Online Learning guest, 'Episode 12'. Listen here.

Public lectures:



Office: FAB5.20

Office Hours:
In-person Mondays 12.30-13.30
Via Teams Wednesdays 15.30-16.30
or by appointment.