Anna Osarose
About
My research project
The Black British Experience in Literature and FilmAnna - writer, educator, creative.
Anna's research primarily focuses on the black British experience in literature and film during the late twentieth century, specifically looking at repair as a mode of resistance (love and rest) in Ngozi Onwurah and Margaret Blackwood's films. Her research is interdisciplinary and draws on methodologies and theories developed in literature, black studies, film and cultural studies, media, history, and black feminism. Anna's work and research is centred around the power of the arts and its transformative, liberatory qualities that calls us to reimagine and create.
She aims to bring to the forefront Beryl Gilroy's educational experiences and literature.
Anna - writer, educator, creative.
Anna's research primarily focuses on the black British experience in literature and film during the late twentieth century, specifically looking at repair as a mode of resistance (love and rest) in Ngozi Onwurah and Margaret Blackwood's films. Her research is interdisciplinary and draws on methodologies and theories developed in literature, black studies, film and cultural studies, media, history, and black feminism. Anna's work and research is centred around the power of the arts and its transformative, liberatory qualities that calls us to reimagine and create.
She aims to bring to the forefront Beryl Gilroy's educational experiences and literature.
Affiliations and memberships
Publications, talks and research outputs
History of Education. Senses, Emotions and Experience in the History of Education (November 2023) Delightful & Daunting: Beryl Gilroy's Experience in Education.
History Matters Journal Vol. 3, No. 2 (Autumn 2023) The Historians Toolkit: using film as a historical source, part 1.
Institute of Historical Research, Black British History Seminar. Lightening Talks: New Research from Emerging Scholars in Black British History (October 2023) The Black British Experience in Film in the Late 20th Century.
Taking the Mic: Black British Spoken Word Poetry Since 1965 - Aesthetics, Activisms, Auralities (November 2022) The Passage of Revival: Beryl Gilroy’s Poetry in Prose.
ResearchResearch interests
One of the primary pillars that upholds Anna's research is the concept of The Space - not a fully definitive idea but working concept that she uses to describe a site of liminality where identity is negotiated; a simultaneous state of belonging and not belonging; continuity and change; mental architecture that is created as a result of not fitting into an existing category; a place where people are racialised as black and brown; not being one or the other; not quite fitting in; a place where people feel; where desires to belong and not be a stranger are formed; being and not being; where home is made; the pressure and expectations to survive and belong; a liminal site where imagined communities are constructed. - (Anna Osarose, 2022).
Anna's research interests include:
- Home and belonging
- Postcolonial Britain
- Repair and resistance
- Black British history
- Black feminism
- Late twentieth century black British film
- Postcolonial literature
- Education
- Education system
- 'Race' and racism
- Identity.
Research interests
One of the primary pillars that upholds Anna's research is the concept of The Space - not a fully definitive idea but working concept that she uses to describe a site of liminality where identity is negotiated; a simultaneous state of belonging and not belonging; continuity and change; mental architecture that is created as a result of not fitting into an existing category; a place where people are racialised as black and brown; not being one or the other; not quite fitting in; a place where people feel; where desires to belong and not be a stranger are formed; being and not being; where home is made; the pressure and expectations to survive and belong; a liminal site where imagined communities are constructed. - (Anna Osarose, 2022).
Anna's research interests include:
- Home and belonging
- Postcolonial Britain
- Repair and resistance
- Black British history
- Black feminism
- Late twentieth century black British film
- Postcolonial literature
- Education
- Education system
- 'Race' and racism
- Identity.
Teaching
Associate Lecturer. Module: The Postcolonial City: Migration, Society and Culture in London. Goldsmiths, University of London (Spring 2023).