Maggie Bowers

Dr. Maggie Bowers is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Portsmouth, specializing in English Literature. She contributes to the Centre for Studies in Literature, Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures, and Centre of Excellence for Heritage Innovation.

Her research focuses on

• Postcolonial and transnational literatures
• Magical realism and narrative form
• Native American and First Nations writing
• Anti-colonial discourse and legal intersections
• Cultural memory in diasporic contexts

Key publications include Magic(al) Realism (Routledge Critical Idiom series) and editorial work on Convergences and Interferences. Recent articles examine

• staging magical realism (2025)
• post-Brexit Englishness (2024)
• Polish-British cultural exchange (2023)
• Global South literatures (2022)
• indigenous legal narratives (2010)

Bowers serves as a PhD supervisor in areas including

• Magical realism
• Postcolonial theory
• Decolonial writing
• World literature
• Native American studies

She has held academic roles at the University of Kent and University of Antwerp, and contributed to journals like Wasafiri and Journal of Postcolonial Writing.