Amber Lascelles

Amber Lascelles is a Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. She directs the MA English Literature postgraduate program and teaches courses including EN1107 Reorienting the Novel and EN5317 Cultural Keywords for Global Literary Studies. Her research focuses on how African diaspora fiction redefines race, embodiment, and literature through Black feminist discourse, examining works by Adichie, Brand, Dangarembga, and Evaristo. Previously, she served as a Research Associate for the Wellcome Trust-funded Black Health and the Humanities project at the University of Bristol.

Education: BA English Literature (De Montfort University Leicester), MA World Literature (University of Warwick), PhD in Black feminism in neoliberal contexts (University of Leeds).

Her monograph-in-progress, Radical Bodies: Reimagining Solidarity in Contemporary Black Feminist Fiction, analyzes how bodily encounters in fiction foster solidarity. She contributes to journals like African and Black Diaspora and Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and co-authored a SAGE dialogue on Black feminist methodologies. Editorial roles include serving as Editor of Feminist Review (2021).