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Lola Boorman is a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of York, Department of English and Related Literature. She holds a Wolfson Foundation-funded PhD from York (2020) and a Fulbright scholarship for research at Stanford University (2018). Her research focuses on the intersections of grammar, power structures, and American identity in 20th/21st-century literature, with a monograph in progress titled Make Grammar Do: Grammar and Twentieth Century American Literature.
Education: PhD in English (University of York, 2020); Fulbright Fellowship (Stanford University, 2018).
Research interests include African American film/literature, essayistic form, and post-civil rights cultural narratives. She co-edits ASAP/J's 'Thinking With' series and leads the Contemporary Essay research strand. Teaching spans modern literature, film, and decolonizing pedagogy, with roles as Programme Leader for English and Politics and co-founder of UoY English’s Decolonizing Network.
Publications include essays in Post45 and the Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story, with upcoming work on David Foster Wallace, linguistic satire in Atlanta, and African American essayistic forms.
Awards: Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship (2016), Fulbright Student Award (2017).
