A keynote lecture will be given by Professor Suzanne Scafe.
Suzanne Scafe is Visiting Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Brighton and Associated Senior Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She was a member of OWAAD and Brixton Black Women’s Group, and with Beverley Bryan and Stella Dadzie co-authored the landmark text The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain (Virago 1985; Verso 2018). Suzanne has written extensively on Black British and Caribbean literature and culture. She is the author of Teaching Black Literature (Virago, 1989) and co-editor of several collections of essays, most recently the interdisciplinary anthology African-Caribbean Women Interrogating Diaspora/(Post) Diaspora (Routledge, 2022). Her latest book, Reading to Resist: Fiction by Contemporary Black British Women Writers, is forthcoming with Routledge in July 2025.
