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Antonia Wimbush
Antonia Wimbush completed her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham in February 2018, fully funded by the AHRC Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Her thesis, entitled ‘Exile in Francophone Women’s Autobiographical Writing’, analysed themes of exile and migration in life writing by women from Algeria, Guadeloupe, Côte d’Ivoire and Vietnam. She has written articles on exile, memory and trauma for the Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Memory and Postcolonial Studies: Synergies and New Directions, edited by Dirk Göttsche and forthcoming in 2018. She is currently conference secretary for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies and is working as a teaching fellow in French at the University of Birmingham.