Dr Sarah Lawson Welsh
Reader in English and Postcolonial Literatures
Teaching on all levels of the BA (Hons) English and Combined
Honours undergraduate programmes as well as supervising PhD
students at York St John.
From 2007-11 Sarah was Head of Programme for the PgCert/
PgDip/ MA programmes in Literature Studies and Creative Writing and
she continues to teach and supervise on the Literature programme.
In 1987 Sarah gained a first class degree in English & American
literature at the University of Kent where she met a number of
emerging young Caribbean writers. She went straight on to the newly
founded interdisciplinary Centre for Caribbean Studies, headed by
Professor David Dabydeen at the University of Warwick and was one
of the first to graduate from the Centre with a PhD in Caribbean
Studies (Language and Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean) in
1991. Since then she has taught at the Universities of Hull,
Warwick, Northampton and York St John (twice: 1992-97 and 2005 to
the present). She has won travel grants to research in the
Caribbean and has guest lectured on Caribbean literature. Sarah’s
research interests are in twentieth postcolonial literature and
theory, especially Caribbean and Black British literature and
women’s writing. She also has interests in postcolonial pedagogies
and gender studies.
Sarah’s research interests are in twentieth
century postcolonial literature and theory, especially
Caribbean and Black British literature and women’s writing. She
also has interests in postcolonial pedagogies and gender
studies.
Sarah has just finished working on issues surrounding the
teaching of gender theory in a postcolonial context. A chapter will
be published in Fiona Tolan & Alice Ferreby's Teaching Gender
by Palgrave Macmillan. Her work has been reprinted by the Open
University as part of their course material and she has contributed
numerous articles and chapters to publications on Caribbean and
Black British writing. Sarah’s latest research focuses on the role
and representation of food and food ways in Caribbean writings from
the earliest colonial period to the present.