Renée Landell

Renée Landell is an AHRC funded doctoral researcher in the School of Humanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests include literary and critical theory, Caribbean neo-slave fiction, Black British writing, and ecocriticism.
She is currently writing up her PhD thesis titled (shorthand) We Run Tings, Tings Nuh We, a postcolonial ecocritical study of Caribbean neo-slave narratives. Through her readings she argues that we can explore the relationship between human and nonhuman violence and resistance during slavery by identifying the revisions and rejections of anti-Black stereotypes in Caribbean writing that radically work to rewrite the body and promote positive ecological practices. Alongside her research, Renée is also the multi-award-winning founding director of Beyond Margins UK, a race equity and justice movement. She is also the co-founder of ‘Black in Arts and Humanities’, a global online network of Black scholars and practitioners alongside Dr Hannah Robbins and Dr Leighan Renaud.