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Sarah Ilott
Dr. Sarah Ilott is Senior Lecturer in English and Film. She is currently writing a book on Screening Multicultural Britain: Race, Racism and British Comedy, forthcoming with Palgrave in 2024. She is a member of the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS) at Manchester Met and a member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies (MCGS). Externally, she is on the organising team of the comedy and gender research network ‘Mixed Bill’ and a member of the Postcolonial Studies Association. Her research and teaching interests are in postcolonialism and popular literature and culture, with particular expertise in comedy and the gothic. Her main publications include New Postcolonial British Genres: Shifting the Boundaries (Palgrave, 2015), Telling it Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi (edited with Chloe Buckley; Sussex Academic Press, 2017) New Directions in Diaspora Studies (edited with Ana Cristina Mendes and Lucinda Newns, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak (edited with Helen Davies; Palgrave 2018). Sarah is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Departmental Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.