Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, University of Birmingham
Rachel is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham. Their research focuses on debates about the use of autobiographical experience, analysing recent literary and cultural texts – usually through a feminist lens – to question the cultural centrality of disclosure, confession, and transparency in contemporary British and American cultures.
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