Authors

Dr Renée Landell is a literary and cultural scholar, visual artist, writer, and public speaker. She recently completed a PhD with a thesis entitled ‘Wi Run Tings, Tings Nuh Run Wi’: Black Humanity and the Nonhuman World in Caribbean Neo-Slave Narratives’. During her time of doctoral study, Renée received extensive global recognition for her 2020 article ‘Why we need to stop thinking of the Caribbean as a tourist paradise’ published in The Conversation, which ranks among the most-read articles of all time on the platform. The following year, she was shortlisted for the esteemed Olivette Otele Prize (2021) for an essay on literary representations of enslaved women’s resistance in the Caribbean. Alongside her writing, Renée works as the founding consultant of Beyond Margins UK, a multi-award-winning racial justice and equity movement collaborating with schools, universities, libraries, and museums across Europe.

Renée’s scholarship and activism have led her to do work in Film and TV. She has appeared on Al Jazeera News, BBC News and CBC (Canada) as a commentator on slavery, empire and the monarchy, and resistance in the Caribbean. More recently, Renée featured alongside Hollywood actor, David Harewood in the BBC 2 documentary ‘David Harewood on Blackface’.

Renée is represented by Silé Edwards.

You can find her on Twitter: @Nay_Landell