Claire Chambers

Dr Claire Chambers is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University. She is a specialist in South Asian literature written in English and in literary representations of British Muslims. Her interest in the literature of the Indian subcontinent and the Muslim world was originally ignited by the year she spent prior to university teaching in Peshawar, Pakistan. It continues to be informed by return visits to the region, and by her engagement with diaspora communities. Claire is currently on research leave, supported by a HEFCE Promising Researcher Fellowship, and is using the time to conduct a series of interviews with leading writers who depict British Muslims in literature and film (these include Udayan Prasad, Moazzam Begg, Kamila Shamsie, and Robin Yassin-Kassab). She has published widely in such journals as Postcolonial Text, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and The Journal of Postcolonial Writing.