Fellow 2023-2024 Susan Watkins
Fellowship Term 10/2023 – 01/2024
Susan Watkins is Professor of Women’s Writing at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Her PhD is from the University of Sheffield (UK) and she previously worked at the University of Chester (UK). Her research focuses on contemporary women's writing and feminist theory, with particular interests in dystopia, apocalyptic fiction, ageing and the future. Susan's most recent book is Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (Palgrave, 2020). She is also the author of Doris Lessing (Manchester UP, 2010) and Twentieth-Century Women Novelists (Palgrave, 2001) and co-editor of The History of British Women’s Writing, Volume IX 1945-1975 (Palgrave, 2017), Doris Lessing: Border Crossings (Continuum, 2009) and Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth Century in the Public Sphere (Palgrave, 2006). She has published articles on women’s writing in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory and Feminist Review. Susan is a founder member and former Chair of the Contemporary Women's Writing Association (CWWA) and previously a Co-Editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She was Director of Leeds Beckett University's Centre for Culture and the Arts for 10 years.
