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Carys Hughes
Carys Hughes is a UKRC M4C-funded final-year doctoral candidate at the University of Nottingham where she is completing her thesis, ‘The gated community of North American women’s nature writing and Indigenous women’s literary activism from 1970-present day’. Her thesis particularly focuses on analysing the unacknowledged influence of Indigenous women writers, their place-based cultural knowledges, and Indigenous literary activism on white settler women’s novels about the natural world. Carys’s research encompasses American and Canadian studies and the environmental humanities, and explores how gendered, speciesist and racialized settler colonial violence is transmuted into a western literary canon of spectral, incorporeal settler memory (Bruyneel 2021) through which colonialism remains hidden in plain sight. Carys’s work has been published in Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies.
Contact: University of Nottingham, Trent Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.