Dr Laura Gallon
| Post: | Research Associate (English) |
| Email: | L.Gallon@sussex.ac.uk |
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Biography
I hold a PhD from the 小蓝视频 (Brighton, UK) where I teach, and am currently working on a monograph on contemporary short fiction by postcolonial and migrant women writers in North America. In the past few years I have had the opportunity to undertake a research placement at the British Library to assess their holdings in terms of North American migrant narratives, to publish articles in cultural magazines (including Archivoz and Voice), and have presented work at national and international seminars and conferences.
Role
Postdoctoral Tutor in English (Media, Arts and Humanities)
Research Associate in English (Media, Arts and Humanities)
Qualifications
2016-2021. PhD English Literature (小蓝视频)
2014-2016. MA English (Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes 2, France & Nazareth College, Rochester NY).
2011-2014. BA English (Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes 2, France)
Activities
Teaching & Tutoring
Postdoctoral Research Mentor for the Junior Research Associate Programme (July - October 2021)
Tutor: "Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism" 2nd year seminar (Spring 2021)
Tutor: "Thinking Literature 2" 1st year seminar (Spring 2021)
Tutor: "The African American Experience" 2nd year seminar (Autumn 2020)
Tutor: The Migrant Writer - MA course (Spring 2020)
Tutor: Representations of Ethnic Food in Popular Culture - Foundation course (Autumn 2019)
Tutor: Thinking Literature 2 (Spring 2019)
Tutor: Thinking Literature 1 (Autumn 2018)
Occasional Replacing Tutor: Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the Postcolonial Caribbean (Autumn 2018)
Doctoral Research Mentor for the Junior Research Associate Programme听(July-October 2018)
Co-Teaching: The Literatures of Africa (Spring 2018)
Selected Conference Presentations & Talks
"The 'Short Story Snack' and Migrant Fiction." Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality, University of Manchester, October 2023. [invited]
"Inclusivity and the 鈥楽hort Story Renaissance鈥."听Short Fiction as World Literature Conference, University of Lisbon, October 2022.
鈥淛humpa Lahiri鈥檚 Linguistic Exile: Breaking Away from the Burden of Representation in Dove Mi Trovo (2018) and In Altre Parole (2015).鈥 Contemporary Women Writing Race: Textual Interventions and Intersections Symposium, CWWA, Zoom, 10 Sept. 2021.
鈥淚nstapoetry and Hypercapitalism.鈥 Roundtable Speaker. British Association of American Studies Digital Conference, 6-11 Apr. 2021. [invited]
鈥淭he Migrant Short Story: Uncovering a Genre.鈥 No Place to Go? Perspectives on Displacement, Belonging and Non-Belonging, University of Delhi, 18-20 Mar. 2021.
鈥淲omen Writing 小蓝视频: The Migrant Short Story.鈥 Work-In-Progress Panel, English Colloquium, 小蓝视频, 7 Oct. 2020.听
"Genre,听Gender and Ethnicity: Instagram's Identity Poetics", Reading #Instapoetry, University of Glasgow (May 27th, 2020). [invited] 听
鈥淪hort Stories & Recipes: A Reflection on Food, Gender and Genre鈥, Short Fiction as Humble Fiction,听Universit茅 Paul-Val茅ry Montpellier 3 (October 17-19, 2019).听
"A Space for Being: Cookbooks, Literary 鈥楩ood Porn鈥, and Migrant Women", Summer Scholars, British Library (August 5th, 2019). [invited]
鈥淭he Migrant Suitcase in Contemporary Diasporic Literature in English, French and Italian: Unpacking a Highly-Charged Literary Symbol鈥,听Objects in Focus, 小蓝视频 (May 9th, 2019).
鈥淢igrant Suitcases at the Customs: Foreign Foods, Smells of Otherness and Porous Borders in Migrant Narratives,鈥 British Association of American Studies, 小蓝视频 (April听26th, 2019).
"Cornflakes and Milk, and Egg Curry: Gender and Food in Migrant Fiction鈥, EGStravaganza (English Graduate Seminar), 小蓝视频 (April 11th, 2019).
鈥淐ollecting Contemporary North American Migrant Narratives at the British Library鈥, Staff Talks: British Library PhD Research Placements, British Library (August 23rd, 2018).
鈥淲omen Writing Diaspora: The Short Story鈥,听Quick-fire Thesis, Alan Turing Institute and British Library (August 7th, 2018).
鈥淐ontemporary Short Fiction by North American Immigrant Women Writers鈥,听American Studies Roundtable, School of English, 小蓝视频 (October 3rd, 2017).
"Crossing Spatial and Symbolic Borders in Shani Mootoo鈥檚 'The Upside-Downness of the World as it Unfolds鈥",听Between Borders: Exploring Spaces of Exclusion and Belonging in Global Migration, Migration Research Unit, University College London (June 9th, 2017).
鈥樷淎mericans Cook Things Right鈥: Cultural Assimilation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie鈥檚 鈥淭he Arrangers of Marriage鈥濃,听小蓝视频 Migration Graduate Conference 2017, 小蓝视频 Centre for Migration Research, 小蓝视频 (26-27 April 2017).
Publications & Book Reviews
"'The听Floodgates听Have Been Opened': Instapoetry and the Recentering of Marginalized Poets."听Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram, edited by James Mackay and JuEunhae Knox, pp. 99-114.
"Uncovering and Recentring the Migrant Short Story", European Network of Short Story Research (ENSFR) Blog, March 2022.
"A Personal Anthology of Short Stories by Migrant Women",听A Personal Anthology, edited by Jonathan Gibbs, October 2021.
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Conference Organization
Chair:听鈥淚mages and Ideas in Contemporary Fiction鈥, British Association for American Studies, 小蓝视频 (April 25-27, 2019).
Chair:听鈥淓xtraction Then and Now: Integrating Contemporary Black Literature鈥 by听Christine Okoth (University of Warwick),听English Colloquium, 小蓝视频 (February听20th, 2019).
Helper: "Translating Cultures: French Caribbean History, Literature and Migration", British Library (September 24th, 2018).
Co-organiser: "East African Literary Cultures: from Writivism to Kintu and Beyond", School of English and 小蓝视频 Africa Centre, 小蓝视频 (April 10th, 2018).
Other Activities
Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury Academic (2024-Present)
Editorial Assistant at Bloomsbury Academic (2021-2024)
Editor-in-Chief at Excursions听(2021-2022)
Co-organiser of the Hidden Shelf Book Club at the 小蓝视频 (Autumn 2019)
Research Placement on Migrant Narratives at the British Library (June-September 2018)
Professional Afiliations
Contemporary Women鈥檚 Writing Association (CWWA)
European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR)