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Suzanne Scafe
Biography
Suzanne Scafe is a Visiting Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Brighton and is an Associated Senior Researcher on the research project MERLIT at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is the co-author of The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain, republished in 2018, and co-editor of several collections of essays on Caribbean and Black British literature and culture, the most recent of which is the interdisciplinary anthology of essays, published this year, entitled African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/(Post) Diaspora. She has written extensively on Black British women’s literary fiction, life writing, and poetry, and on writers including Bernardine Evaristo, Dorothea Smartt, Diana Evans and Irenosen Okojie. Her book Reading to Resist: Contemporary Black British Women’s Fiction will be published by Routledge later this year.
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Location
Pleinlaan 2
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - BE449012406
1050 Brussel
Belgium