Claire Chambers

Claire Chambers is Professor of Global Literature at the University of York, where she teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing in English from South Asia, the Perso-Arab world, and their diasporas. She is the author of ‘British Muslim Fictions’ (2011), ‘Britain Through Muslim Eyes’ (2015), ‘Rivers of Ink: Selected Essays’ (2017), and ‘Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels’ (2019). She has co-edited and co-authored several other books including, most recently, ‘Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia’ (2023). Claire was Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Journal of Commonwealth Literature’ for over a decade and now co-edits two book series, ‘Multicultural Textualities’ (Manchester University Press) and ‘Global Literature: Twenty-First Century Perspectives’ (Routledge). She has been awarded funding by the AHRC, ESRC, Leverhulme, and British Academy, among other bodies. Claire is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).