Dr Corinne Fowler

Posted on June 23, 2015 by chrismoffat

Affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Postcolonial Literature, University of Leicester

Location: Leicester, East Midlands

Research Description: Rural racism, writing by black and Asian Britons, regional sensibility, regional literary cultures, literary economy, community publishing, British country houses’ slavery connections.

Research Keywords: Writing by black and Asian Britons.

Countries and Regions of Interest: UK, Midlands, rural Britain, North-West Britain.

Publications:

Books:

Travel Writing and Ethics. Theory and Practice ed. by Corinne Fowler, Charles Forsdick and Ludmilla Kostova (Routledge, 2013)
Postcolonial Manchester: devolved literary cultures (Manchester University Press, 2013), with Lynne Pearce
Chasing Tales. Travel writing, journalism and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan (Rodopi, 2007)
Migration Stories ed. by Corinne Fowler, Muli Amaye and Martin de Mello (Crocus Books, 2009)

Special Journal Issues:

Region/Writing/Home: Relocating British Diasporas, Moving Worlds volume 9:2, 2009, ed. with Graham Mort
Journeys: ‘Travel and Ethics’ (4:1), 2003

Journal Articles:

‘Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on the Mile: Migrants in Fieldwork and Fiction’, Mobilities (7: 2) 2012, with Sondra Cuban
‘A Tale of Two Novels: devolving black British writing’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature (43:3) 2008, pp. 75-94
‘Articulation, Imagined Space and Virtual Mobility in Literary Narratives of Migration’, Mobilities (3:3) 2008, pp. 455-469, with Robert Crawshaw
‘Before Enduring Freedom: the legacy of nineteenth-century Anglo-Afghan encounters to British travel writing and journalism’ Studies in Travel Writing (7:1) 2007, pp. 155-175
Journalists in feminist clothing. Men and women reporting Afghan women’ Journal of International Women’s Studies (8:2) 2007, pp. 4-19
‘Recuperating narratives with troublesome titles. A critical meta-commentary on the problem of reading Beatrice Grimshaw’s From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands (1907)’ Ecloga 2006, pp. 25-45
‘Moving Manchester: relocating diaspora research’ International Journal of the Humanities (1:1), 2006, with Lynne Pearce
‘The return of the author: developing effective modes of collaboration between writing practioners and analytical theorists’, International Journal of the Arts in Society (1:1), 2006, with Graham Mort
‘Where ethnographers fear to tread: the counter-influence of ethnography on Christopher Kremmer’s The Carpet Wars and Christina Lamb’s The Sewing Circles of Herat’ Journeys (4:1) 2003, pp. 103-128
‘Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner (2004)’ in the Literary Encyclopaedia

Book Chapters:

‘The Poetics and Politics of Spoken Word Poetry’ in The Cambridge Companion to Black British Writing, ed. Deirdre Osborne, 2015.
‘Travel and Ethics’ in The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Carl Thompson, 2015.
‘Fiction and Affect: Anglophone Travel Writing and the Case of Paraguay’ in Travel Writing and Ethics. Theory and Practice, ed. Charles Forsdick, Corinne Fowler and Ludmilla Kostova (London: Routledge 2012)
‘Feminist imperialism: travel writing and journalism past and present’ in The Politics of Gender (Routledge, 2009)
‘The problem of narrative authority: Kate Karko and Catherine Oddie’ in Siegal, Kristi (ed) Gender, Genre and Identity in Women’s Travel Writing (Peter Lang Publishing) 2003, pp. 209-224

Creative Writing:

‘North, South: Britain’s alternative literary landscapes’, The London Magazine, March/April 2010
‘The Flood’, Arabesques Review, 2007, pp. 29-35
‘Clackmannan Tower’ in Days Like This, Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2009, pp. 143-146
‘The Black Devon’, New Writing Scotland, volume 27, 2009
Migration Stories, ed. by Muli Amaye, Martin De Mello and Corinne Fowler (Crocus Books, 2009)