Dr Devon Campbell-Hall

Devon 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, and
• Southern American women's writing, particularly that of Flannery O'Connor and Kate Chopin.

• ‘Desexing the Crone: intentional invisibility as postcolonial retaliation in the novels of Randhawa and Divakaruni’ (forthcoming in Rodopi’s Cross Cultural series)
• Dobbs, Sarah (ed), Val Jessop, Devon Campbell-Hall, Terry McDonough and Cath Nichols, English Language, Literature and Creative Writing: a Practical Guide for Students (London: Anthem Press, 2014)
• ‘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 Writing) 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 Turban (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'

• STAR Award for 'Open Door', 2013.
• Nominated for STAR Award, 2014.