Jenni Ramone

I am Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures and co-director of the Postcolonial Studies Centre at Nottingham Trent University. I am an Associate Editor at the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Treasurer of the Postcolonial Studies Association.

I lead and teach the second-year module Black Writing in Britain, which explores writing from 1948 to the present day. I teach on neo-colonialism, globalization, and the literary marketplace, and I lead Literary Cultures, supporting students to develop skills in journal article writing and editing, and conference organsation and delivery.

My recent publications include Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace: Located Reading, and The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing. I specialize in global and postcolonial literatures and the literary marketplace. I am currently undertaking new projects on Global Literature and Gender, and on literature and maternity. Earlier research includes my book on Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2013), which considers acts of translation and translator figures in Rushdie's work, my book Postcolonial Theories (Palgrave, 2011), which introduces current debates in the field, analyses the work of a number of important theorists, and considers literature from many formerly colonized locations worldwide. I have also coedited a double special journal issue of Life Writing on postcolonial and diaspora women's life writing, and coedited a book on The Richard and Judy Book Club (Ashgate, 2011).

As part of my wider engagement with the public, I have hosted a number of events with writers discussing and reading from their work, including Bernardine Evaristo, Okechukwu Nzelu, Peter Kalu, and Abdulrazak Gurnah, and film director Destiny Ekaragha. I also discuss literature and postcolonial studies on local media.