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Professor Clare Barker is a Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Leeds, based in the School of English within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Her research focuses on disability studies, medical humanities, postcolonial and Indigenous literatures/films, and environmental humanities. She joined Leeds in 2012 after a lectureship at the University of Birmingham.
Education:
- BA English Literature (Durham University)
- MA Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures (University of Leeds)
- PhD Postcolonial Literary Studies (University of Leeds)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (University of Birmingham)
Research: Her work examines representations of health, disability, and biomedical research across cultural contexts. Key projects include Postcolonial Fiction and Disability (2011), co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability (2017), and leading the Wellcome-funded LivingBodiesObjects project (2022–25). She collaborates with the Bhopal Medical Appeal to document disasters in Bhopal, India, and explores biocolonialism in genetic research narratives.
Awards:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Advising & Grants: Supervised 9 PhD students on topics including disability, environmental disaster, and reproductive rights. Co-PI on the £2.5M LivingBodiesObjects project. Previously awarded a Wellcome Trust Seed Award for biocolonialism research.
Labs/Teams: Co-leads the LivingBodiesObjects medical humanities lab, integrating physical/virtual spaces to foster inclusive research practices. Collaborates with interdisciplinary networks like the Medical Humanities Research Group.
