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)

Module leader

• Victorian Literature: Progress and Panic (Level 5)
• Regional and World Literature (Level 7)
• Introduction to Literary Theory (Level 3)

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