Biography

Kate completed her doctorate at Queen Mary, University of London in 2010. She also taught at the same institution from 2008-11.

She works primarily on questions of gender and sexuality in postwar Caribbean Literature, although she also has an interest in postwar British literature and Australian fiction. She has written reviews and essays for a range of journals and books, including the Journal of Memory Studies, New Formations, Interventions, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of West Indian Literature, Transnational Identity and the Media (Palgrave Macmillan), and Beyond Windrush (the University of Mississippi Press).She is a co-founder of the Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group at the Institute of English Studies, University of London and a co-organiser of the forthcoming symposium 'Popular Postcolonialisms' at Queen Mary, University of London.

Research Interests

My research interests include:

• Caribbean literature
• Postcolonial literature
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Queer theory
• Feminism
• Contemporary fiction

Publications

Articles and Book Chapters:
• ‘"It Worked in a Different Way”: Male Same-Sex Desire in the Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah’, English Studies in Africa, Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah (forthcoming 2013)
• ‘John Hearne’s Plantation Fantasy’ in Beyond Windrush eds. J. Dillon Brown and Leah Reade Rosenberg (University of Mississippi Press, forthcoming 2012)
• ‘Andrew Salkey, the British Home and the Intimacies In-between’, Interventions, Special Issue: Postcolonial Intimacies (forthcoming 2012)
• ‘Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956), White Sexual Desire and the Calypso Aesthetic’, Journal of West Indian Literature, Special Issue: Sam Selvon (forthcoming 2012)
• ‘Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the Case of the “Leading Aberrant”: Early Gay Narratives in the British Media’ in Transnational Identity and the Media ed. Christopher Pullen (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming February 2012)
• ‘Nostalgia for the Past as Guide to the Future: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People', Memory Studies 3 (Jul 2010): 253-61

Reviews and Other Publications:
• ‘Review: Faith Smith (ed.) Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean and Maeve McCusker and Anthony Soares (eds.) Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing (forthcoming 2012)
• ‘Review: Sharae Deckard’s Paradise Discourse, Imperialism and Globalization: Exploited Eden’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47.5 (December 2011), 577-8
• ‘Review: Yogita Goyal’s Romance, Diaspora and Black Atlantic Literature’, New Formations 72 (Autumn 2011), 179-80
• ‘Review: Thomas Glave (ed.) Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles’, New Formations 71 (Summer 2011), 141-2
• ‘Colin MacInnes, City of Spades (1957)’, London Fictions (May 2011)
[http://www.londonfictions.com/colin-macinnes-city-of-spades.html]
• Review: Holger Henke and Karl-Heinz Magister (eds) Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean, H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews (March 2011)
[http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31721]
• ‘Colin MacInnes’ The Literary Encyclopedia 21/02/2011
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2853]
• ‘Andrew Salkey’ The Literary Encyclopedia 15/06/2010 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3916]

Teaching

In Semester 1 I am co-ordinating 'Theories of Reading' (Level 1) and 'Contemporary Literature: Gender and Sexuality' (Level 2), as well as dissertations.

In Semester 2 I will be co-ordinating ''Theories of Reading' (Level 1), 'Contemporary Literature 2: Postcolonial Fiction' (Level 2) and 'The 21st Century British Novel' (Level 3). 

Departmental Duties

I am the department's ALS Co-ordinator and Dissertation Co-ordinator. I also organise the Research Forum, 'Cultures in Contact.