Dr Devon Campbell-Hall

Dr Devon Campbell-Hall is an insanely energetic, transatlantic lecturer who loves every aspect of teaching literature. She completed a PhD entitled 'Writing Asian Britain in Contemporary Anglophone Literature' at the University of Winchester, where she also earned an MA in English: Contemporary Literature. Her BA in English is from Chapman University in California. She was a key contributor to the development of Southampton Solent University's English degrees and now serves as the Course Leader for this scheme.

Devon is a Fellow of the HEA, a member of the South Asian Literary Association (US) and the Association of Commonwealth Language and Literature Society (Europe) and is actively engaged in presenting her research at international conferences. Academic publications to date include peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews of several books on various aspects of contemporary and postcolonial literature.

Regularly sought out as an inspirational speaker and workshop leader, Devon is passionate about widening participation in higher education, and has a genuine commitment to helping students – particularly those who have entered University via non-traditional means – to reach their academic potential.

Dr Devon Campbell-Hall has published on various aspects of contemporary and postcolonial literature. Her areas of research interest include such areas as:

• The representation of postcolonial British identity in contemporary fiction
• The representation of disability, labour, children and skin in 19th-20thC fiction
• Contemporary Anglophone/postcolonial fiction and poetry (particularly Indian fiction in English)
• The minority experience in American Literature, particularly Chicano American literature
• Southern American women's writing, particularly that of Flannery O'Connor and Kate Chopin  

Her published writing includes:

• ‘Renegotiating the Asian-British domestic community in recent fiction’ in Journal of Postcolonial Writing 45/2 (June 2009): 171-179
• ‘Writing Second Generation Migrant Identity in Meera Syal’s Fiction’, in Borg Barthet, Stella (ed), Shared Waters: Soundings in Postcolonial Literatures (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009): 289-305
•  'Subversive Migrant Labour in Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Zadie Smith's White Teeth' in C Vijayasree, M Mukherjee, H Trivedi and T Vijay Kumar (eds), Nation in Imagination: Essays on Nationalism, Sub-Nationalisms and Narration (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007): 229-237
•  'Dangerous Artisans: Anarchic Labour in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and The English Patient and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things', World Literature Written in English (Now The Journal of Postcolonial W riting) 40/1 (2002-2003): 42-55.
• 'Dangerous Artisans' was reprinted in Murari Prasad (ed), Arundhati Roy: Critical Perspectives (New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2006): 44-58.
•  Review of Shanta Acharya's Looking Out, Looking In (2005), Smita Agarwal's Wish-granting Words (2002) and Bashabi Fraser's Tartan and Tur ban (2004) in Wasafiri 47 (Spring 2006): 87-89.

Conference papers include:

2011 – EACLALS Triennial Conference, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey)
‘Desexing the Crone: intentional invisibility as postcolonial retaliation in the novels of Randhawa and Divakaruni’

2009 – Postcolonial Human Conference, University of Leeds
‘Reconsidering Disability Postcolonially’

2007 – Creolising Europe Conference, University of Manchester
‘Writing Othered Asian British Skins'

2007 – Rerouting the Postcolonial Conference, University of Northampton
'Renegotiating the Asian British Domestic Community in Recent Fiction'

2005 – Endangered Planet in Literature Conference, Dogus University (Istanbul, Turkey)
'Enabled Selves, Disabled Others in Katherine Dunn's novel Geek Love'

2005 – EACLALS Triennial Conference, University of Malta (Sliema, Malta)
' Writing Second Generation Migrant Identity in Meera Syal's Fiction'

2004 – ACLALS Triennial Conference, Osmania University (Hyderabad, India)
'Re-Mapping the Ghetto: Subversive Migrant Labour in the Fictions of Monica Ali and Zadie Smith'

2004 – Skin Conference, University of London, Institute of English Studies
'Othered Skins in Recent Multicultural British Fiction'

2003 – Postcolonialism and Globalisation Conference, University of Northampton
'Dangerous Artisans: Anarchic Labour in Ondaatje and Roy'

2003 – (Dis)junctions Humanities Conference, University of California (US)
'Troubled Spaces: The Displaced Child as Narrator in the Fictions of Arundhati Roy and Meera Syal'