Emma Barnes

I teach on the following modules:

Undergraduate

Narrative, Fiction and the Novel (Level 4)

Theory and Practice (Level 4)

Victorian Literature (Level 5)

Gender, Race and Empire at the fin de siècle (Level 5)

Modernism (Level 6)

Postcolonial African Literatures (Level 6)

Postgraduate

Theory, Text, Writing (Level 7)

Regional and World Literatures (Level 7)

Writing Sex and Gender (Level 7)

My research is committed to amplifying the voices of Indigenous women and foregrounding gendered resistance to settler colonialism through early Indigenous women’s writing. In particular, I research the gendered and environmental impacts of settler colonialism and explore how literature imagines how humans and animals can co-resist the intersecting structures of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy. I am also interested in how early Indigenous writing can transform our understanding of climate change temporalities, and the role of Indigenous women in leading climate change responses.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) English Literature and Language, University of Salford

MA Literature, Modernity and Culture, University of Salford

(Ongoing) AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature: ‘Plants, Animals, Land: More-than-human Relations and Gendered Survivance in Early Indigenous Women’s Writing’, University of Salford

Memberships

Northern Postcolonial Network

Book chapter: ‘Then after a while my heart is sick for you, like you are my own boy, like I am your own mother’: Indigenous Mother-work as Colonial Resistance in Tekahionwake’s ‘Catharine of the “Crow’s Nest”’ (1910)’ in Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media (ed. Hediye Ӧzkan, Vernon Press, 2021) (In Press)

‘Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Books’, The Literary Encyclopedia,