Suzanne Scafe
Suzanne Scafe is a Visiting Professor of Caribbean and Postcolonial Literatures at London South Bank University. Her recent work includes essays on violence in the spatial imaginary of Kingston fictions (ZAA, 2016, and forthcoming, 2019), and several essays and book chapters on black British women’s autobiographical writing, black British fiction and drama, and Caribbean women’s writing. Her most recent publications include “Black Women Subjects in Auto/biographical Discourse” in The Cambridge Companion to Black and Asian Literature (2016) and “Performing Ellen: Mojisola Adebayo’s Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey, 2008 and Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, 1860” (Journal of Commonwealth Literature forthcoming, 2019). She is the co-editor with Aisha T. Spencer of a Special Issue for the journal Short Fiction in Theory and Practice entitled, Caribbean Women’s Short Fiction: New Voices, Emerging Perspectives (2016); co-editor of a collection of essays, I Am Black/White/Yellow: The Black Body in Europe (2007), and of two Special issues of Feminist Review, Creolization and Affect (2013) and Black British Feminisms (2014). Suzanne Scafe was the Principal Investigator (2016-2018) of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) Network grant entitled African-Caribbean Women’s Mobility and Self-Fashioning in Post-Diaspora Contexts.
