Lisa Lau

Dr. Lisa Lau is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at Keele University, specializing in interdisciplinary Human Geography. She holds a PhD from Durham University’s Geography Department, focusing on postcolonial South Asian Literature. Her roles include Co-chair of RECSAT and Academic Lead for Decolonising the Curriculum. She has published extensively on postcolonial studies, gender studies, and diaspora narratives. Her research explores issues of knowledge, narrative, power, class, and identity, with notable work on re-orientalism theory and decolonizing academic curricula. She has collaborated with the World Bank on 10 consultancies and serves on editorial boards like the Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies. Her teaching spans modules on human geographies, postcolonialism, and sustainability.

Education: PhD in Geography (Durham University), MA in African American Literature, BA in English Literature.

Research Interests: Postcolonialism, gender studies, urban studies, commercial surrogacy, decolonization, and literary geographies. She has pioneered re-orientalism theory, analyzing how postcolonial writers engage with Orientalist tropes.

Professional Contributions: Leads initiatives on decolonizing curricula, advises on interdisciplinary education, and participates in networks like the Precarity, Populism and Post-truth Politics Research Network. Her work bridges literary analysis with geographical and cultural studies frameworks.