Hayley Toth

Dr. Hayley Toth is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University's School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics. Her research focuses on postcolonial studies, cultural collaboration in Black liberation movements, and the socio-political dimensions of literary form. Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, her current project examines collective cultural practices (1976-82) as vehicles for political resistance. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds and has held postdoctoral roles at Oxford and Leeds.

Research Interests:

• Postcolonial literature as social/historical institution
• Print cultures and performance in liberation struggles
• Non-professional reading practices
• Black feminist print activism
• Decolonial methodologies

Key Achievements: Organized the 2024 interdisciplinary symposium Collective Form and National Liberation; published widely in journals like Interventions and Journal of Postcolonial Writing; co-authored the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. Teaching includes Revolutions in the undergraduate curriculum.

Future Work: Archival research in Chicago on National Alliance of Black Feminists; planning a journal special issue from symposium proceedings; preparing monograph Collective Form: Cultural Collaboration in Black Liberation Struggles, 1976-82 (2025).