Madeline Clements

Madeline Clements is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, specializing in postcolonial and South Asian writing, particularly Pakistani literature in English and translation. Her research also engages with visual art from Pakistan and South Asian art in Britain. She earned her PhD at the University of East London (2014) on portrayals of Muslims and Islam in post-9/11 South Asian Muslim fiction. Before joining Teesside in 2015, she taught at Forman Christian College, Lahore, and completed a residency at the National College of Arts. Madeline is the author of Writing Islam from a South Asian Muslim Perspective: Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam, Shamsie (Palgrave, 2015). Her work appears in journals such as Wasafiri, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and edited collections including Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora and Sultana’s Sisters. She has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement and Dawn, written entries for the Literary Encyclopedia, and curated exhibitions of Pakistani art in Karachi and the UK. Her current research explores minority representation, free speech, and cultural activism in Pakistan. She has led projects including Women Writing Pakistan (QR-GCRF), Editing Women (QR-Participatory Research), and Editing Women in the Archives (Impact Acceleration Account, ongoing), and was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded network World Making Words (2024–2025). Madeline supervises PhDs on African literary websites, women’s life-writing in Kerala, and curatorial diversity. She welcomes proposals on postcolonial and South Asian writing, Pakistani literature and art, literary activism, and cultural representations of religious minorities.