Roberta Garrett

Roberta Garrett is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of East London. She is author of Post-Modern Chick-Flicks: The Return of the Woman's Film (2008) co-editor of We Need to Talk About Family: Essays in Neoliberalism, The Family and Popular Culture (2016) and author of Writing the Modern Family: Contemporary Literature, Motherhood and Neoliberalism (2021) and co-editor of Bloomsbury Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Rachel Cusk (2024). She has also written numerous book chapters and articles on popular literature and film.

Her most recent articles are on representations of domestic abuse in crime fiction, ageism and misogyny in domestic noir and literary representations of gender and precarious work culture.

Roberta is currently leading on a funded research project that develops creative writing as a therapeutic tool for survivors of domestic abuse.