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Claire Westall is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She joined York in 2010 as a Teaching Fellow, became a Lecturer in Contemporary Literature in 2011, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2016. Prior to this, she worked at the University of Warwick, where she completed her doctoral research.
Her research focuses on World-Literature, Anglophone Caribbean Literature, the intersection of Sport (particularly cricket) and Literature, Englishness, Britain and Devolution, the Energy Humanities, and Prison Writing/Film. She is the author of The Rites of Cricket and Caribbean Literature (2021) and co-editor of several volumes including Prison Writing and the Literary World (2020) and Journal of Postcolonial Writing special editions. Her work frequently explores energetic materialism and the global cultural implications of cricket.
Dr. Westall has supervised students in areas such as World-Literary Systems, Energy Humanities, Postcolonial Theory, Caribbean Literature, and Literary Representations of Sport. She actively contributes to academic discourse through editorial roles in journals like New Formations and Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
