Jennifer Terry Author & Editor

Dr Jennifer Terry is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in English at Durham University, UK with particular interests in literature and culture of the black diaspora. Her research is situated at the intersections of American hemispheric, US and postcolonial studies. Previous publications have focused on the work of Toni Morrison and other African American writers. Her monograph 'Shuttles in the Rocking Loom': Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction was published by Liverpool University Press in 2013. Dr Terry is Secretary of the British Association for American Studies, organised the UK Higher Education Academy event ‘Teaching African American Literature and Culture’ in 2014, and is developing new work on visions of futurity in recent fiction and visual art by black diasporans.