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Charlotta Salmi is a Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial and Global Literature at Queen Mary University of London’s School of English and Drama. She holds a BA and MA from the University of York and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on postcolonial literature, graphic narratives, and the intersections of conflict, protest, and state power. She has held a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham (2014–2017), where she investigated global graphic narratives of protest and violence. Currently, she explores how graphic storytelling forms like comics and street art are deployed in social movements such as Black Lives Matter and the Arab Spring. She also co-leads a British Academy-funded project on visual representations of gender-based violence in Nepal.
Her teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate courses including Global Graphic Narratives, Postcolonial and Global Literature, and Researching Modern Culture. She has published widely on topics such as partition literature, graphic human rights narratives, and the role of visual art in activism. Her recent projects emphasize interdisciplinary collaborations, particularly with NGOs and arts collectives in Nepal to address issues like domestic abuse and menstruation-based discrimination through street art and comics workshops.
Key awards include the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research bridges literary analysis with sociopolitical critique, focusing on how marginalized voices use non-traditional narrative forms to challenge state narratives and mobilize resistance. She maintains an active role in academic and public discourse on global literature’s capacity to document and transform societal struggles.
