Senior Lecturer in Political Thought, Manchester Metropolitan University
I am an Edward W. Said Fellow 2024 at the Heyman Center for the Humanities (Columbia University, NY). I am currently developing a book project on Said’s conception of ‘critical consciousness’ and its relationship with the thought of Antonio Gramsci. My areas of specialism are political theory and the history of modern political thought. My research addresses issues at the intersection of critical and postcolonial thought, in particular re-examining the role of intellectuals in modern society.
I have forthcoming articles in Interventions and Notebooks, and I am co-editor of Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks (Brill, 2020), a rich collection of innovative scholarship on Gramsci (also in paperback). I have published work in TOPOI, Theory and Event, Thesis Eleven, Gramsciana, Hegel Bulletin, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Science and Society, and the International Gramsci Journal.
Before joining Manchester Metropolitan in 2014, I lectured in European and International Studies at King’s College London, where I completed my PhD in 2013.
I co-created the Critical Theory in Hard Times network, which organised workshops on Decolonising Critical Thought (2021) and Racial Capitalism and Anti-Racist Futures (2023).
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