Dr. Anna Bernard

Biography

Anna Bernard came to King’s College London in 2012 as a lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley and her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2016-17), a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney (2017), and was involved in an AHRC Research Network grant (2013-16). Her research interests include postcolonial world literature, focusing on texts in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Hebrew, with particular attention to cultural activism and advocacy related to decolonization. She supervises PhD students interested in 20th and 21st-century anti-colonial literature and movements, as well as the pedagogical aspects of cultural resistance. In addition, Bernard is the author of "Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, Israel/Palestine" (Liverpool 2013) and "Decolonizing Literature: Introduction" (Polity Press, 2023). Currently, she is working on a book titled "International Solidarity Culture in Late Cold War Britain" which explores the literature and film associated with solidarity movements.

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