Charlotte Baker is Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures. She holds a BA in French and English Literature from Lancaster University, and an MA and PhD from Nottingham University.
Charlotte's research focuses on Francophone and Anglophone African literature, questions of disability, marginality and human rights, and the role of the arts in bringing about social change.
Charlotte is particularly interested in the genetic condition albinism, and has published widely on this subject. She was awarded a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship and Wellcome Trust funding for the Albinism in Africa project, which she set up in 2014.
She is currently leading the Disability and Inclusion Africa project, funded by the AHRC and Global Challenges Research Fund. www.dia-project.com
Experience
2014–present
Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University
2017–present
Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
2007–2014
Lecturer , Lancaster University
Education
2007
PhD, Nottingham University
2003
MA , Nottingham University
2000
PGDip, Brunel University
1999
BA Hons, Lancaster University
Publications
2018
The Struggle Against Impunity in the Bukinabe Dictator-Novel, Research in African Literatures
2017
The Role of African Fiction in Educating about Albinism and Human Rights, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
2016
Premier colloque international sur l'albinisme oculocutane en Afrique subsaharienne, Douala, Cameroun, 24-25 juillet 2015, Medicine et Sante Tropicale 26.2
2015
Multilingual literature and official bilingualism in Cameroon: Francis Nyamnjoh’s A Nose for Money (2006) and Patrice Nganang’s Temps de chien (2001), International Journal of Francophone Studies 18.1
2014
Necropolitical violence and post-independence Guinean Literature, International Journal of Francophone Studies 17.3-4
2011
Enduring Negativity: Representations of Albinism in the Fictional Work of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine, Peter Lang
2010
The Myths surrounding People with Albinism in South Africa and Zimbabwe, Journal of African Cultural Studies 22.2
2009
Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image. , Peter Lang
Grants and Contracts
2017
Impact and Knowledge Exchange Grant
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Lancaster University
2017
Global Challenges Kick Starter Funding
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Lancaster University
2016
Impact and Knowledge Exchange Grant
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Lancaster University
2015
Changing Perceptions of Albinism in Africa
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Wellcome Trust International Small Grants Scheme (Medical Humanities)
2014
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Albinism
Role:
PI
Funding Source:
Wellcome Trust Small Grants Scheme (Medical Humanities)