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Rachel Carroll is an Associate Professor in English at Teesside University's School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law. She leads the English and Creative Writing Research Group and co-leads the Centre for Culture and Creativity. As Academic Director for the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, she supervises PhD students in areas of women’s writing and gender studies. Her research focuses on women’s writing, gender/sexuality in fiction, adaptation studies, and interdisciplinary humanities.
She holds a BA and PhD in English Literature from Newcastle University, with a doctoral thesis on embodiment in works by Sylvia Plath and others. Teaching expertise includes modern literature, feminist theory, queer studies, and African American writing.
Her research interests center on material culture in women’s writing (e.g., textile labor, clothing poverty), co-editing the Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism, and monographs like Transgender and the Literary Imagination. Major projects include AHRC-funded initiatives on social inequality, South Asian women’s literary agency, and decolonizing feminism.
She has authored over 40 research outputs, including peer-reviewed journal articles in Journal of American Studies and Textual Practice, and edited collections like Adaptation in Contemporary Culture. Collaborations span international partnerships in Pakistan and India, emphasizing gender equality and postcolonial studies.
