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Dr. Penny Cartwright is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford, and a member of Corpus Christi College. She joined Oxford in 2021 and teaches on the MSt in World Literatures in English, focusing on the Special Option "Literature and the Global Contemporary". She also tutors at Queen's College on 19th- and 20th-century literature and literary theory.
Her research examines representations of global space and orientation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, with a monograph in progress titled Scales and Subjects: Representations of the Global in Contemporary Anglophone African Literature. This work analyzes authors such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Igoni Barrett, exploring themes of global epistemologies, neoliberalism, and narrative 'worlding.'
Key Awards:
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Before Oxford, Cartwright was a Teaching Associate at the University of Bristol (2020–2021), where she completed her PhD funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her work bridges postcolonial studies, comparative literature theory, and global literary analysis.
