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Elsa Court is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London and fiction editor for Review 31. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and specializes in migratory narratives, translation studies, and 20th-century transatlantic literature. Her research explores intersections between language, identity, and cultural displacement.
In 2018–2020, she authored a monthly Financial Times column analyzing linguistic identity post-Brexit. Her monograph *The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography* (2020) examines Cold War émigré perspectives on U.S. cultural landscapes. She has published essays in *TLS*, *Granta*, and *Los Angeles Review of Books*, alongside short fiction in *New Letters* and *American Short Fiction*.
Awards include the Fence Reader’s Choice Award (2021) and a Bridport Prize shortlist (2021). Her creative work blends autofictional elements with critical inquiry into diasporic belonging. Teaching modules include Creative Non-Fiction and Writing and Reading Seminars.
