- Research Project Manager, Northeastern University London
Dr Renée Landell is a literary and cultural scholar, writer and public speaker specialising in Caribbean literature, Black studies, decolonial thought and environmental humanities. Renée has presented at universities including Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester and Royal Holloway, and has published in Routledge, Bloomsbury, the Journal of West Indian Literature, Oxford University Press, and more. She currently manages 'Mapping Black London', a digital humanities project recovering Black presence across London’s history, leading its 'Multiracial Pasts, Equitable Futures' phase, at Northeastern University London. She has appeared on the BBC, CBC, and Al Jazeera and features in the BBC Two documentary, 'David Harewood on Blackface'. She is represented by Andrew Nurnberg Associates (literary agency).
Experience
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2024–presentResearch officer, Northeastern University London
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2023–2023Fellow, Institute of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Education
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2023Royal Holloway, University of London, PhD
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2019Royal Holloway, University of London, MA by Research
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2017Royal Holloway, University of London, BA
Publications
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2026Reanimated Histories: Interspecies Resistance in Caribbean Neo-Slave Literature, The University of Chicago, OCHRE
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2025Breaking the Body: Blackness and Animality in David Dabydeen’s 'Slave Song', Routledge
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2024Beauty & the Beast: White Women, Black Men & The Question of the Animal in 'Slave Song’., Hansib Publications
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2023[REVIEW] ‘Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement Before Decolonisation’, by Theo Williams, Oxford University Press
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2020[REVIEW] ‘Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing’, ed. by Cristina Herrera and Paula Sanmartín, Journal of West Indian Literature
Grants and Contracts
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2024John Coffin Memorial Trust Fund
- Role:
- Curator
- Funding Source:
- School of Advanced Study
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2023Creative Practitioner in Residence Fellowship
- Role:
- Fellow
- Funding Source:
- School of Advanced Study
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2021The Research Training Support
- Role:
- Conference Organiser
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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2019Technē AHRC. Ph.D. Studentship
- Role:
- Doctoral Researcher
- Funding Source:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
Professional Memberships
- Society for Caribbean Studies
Contact Renée for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
