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Dr Caroline Herbert, Course Director

Dr Caroline Herbert

Course Director

Dr Caroline Herbert is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature and is the Course Director for the English Literature undergraduate and MA programmes. Her research centres on postcolonial cultural production, especially South Asian literature and film.

An expert in contemporary Indian literature and film, Caroline has particular interests in city life (notably Bombay/Mumbai), social inequality, spectrality, and the environmental humanities more broadly. Her articles in these areas have appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Textual Practice, and BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, as well as prize-winning essay collections such as Popular Ghosts and The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature. She is co-editor (with Claire Chambers) of Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representation (Routledge 2015), and a special issue of Moving Worlds exploring South Asian cities. She is currently completing a monograph entitled Spectral Dispossessions in Postcolonial Bombay/Mumbai which explores representations of social and spatial inequality in fiction, poetry, and film.

Caroline was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing from 2015-2023 and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Before joining Leeds Beckett, Caroline was a Canadian Commonwealth Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Concordia University, Montreal, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Figura: Centre de Recherche sur le Texte et l'Imaginaire, at the University of Quebec, Montreal.  

Current Teaching

  • Contemporary Literary Studies (L4)
  • Postcolonial Literature (L5)
  • Postcolonial Cities (L6)
  • Imagining India (MA)

Research Interests

Caroline is currently completing a monograph entitled Spectral Dispossessions in Postcolonial Bombay/Mumbai for Liverpool University Press which explores representations of social and spatial inequality in the ‘New India’ across a range of fiction, poetry, and film (both feature and documentary).

Dr Caroline Herbert, Course Director
School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Ask Me About

  1. South Asia
  2. India
  3. Postcolonial
  4. Decolonial
  5. Inequality
  6. Spectrality
  7. Culture
  8. Equality and inclusion
  9. Film
  10. Literature

Selected Outputs

  • Herbert C (2014) Postcolonial Cities. In: McNamara K ed. The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-215.

  • Herbert C (2014) Music, secularism and South Asian fiction: Muslim culture and minority identities in Shashi Deshpande's Small Remedies'. In: Herbert C; Chambers C ed. Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, religion, representations. London: Routledge,

  • Herbert C; Chambers C (2014) Introduction: contexts and texts. In: herbert C; Chambers C ed. Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, religion, representations. Routledge:

  • Herbert C (2011) Owning the City: Urban Space and Postcolonial Citizenship in Taxi 9 2 11. In: Teverson A; Upstone S ed. Postcolonial Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 97-111.

  • Herbert C (2010) Haunted Nation: Spectres of Socialism in Shree 420 and Deewaar. In: Blanco MDP; Peeren E ed. Popular Ghosts. Continuum International Publishing Group, pp. 79-93.

  • Herbert C (In press) Documentary form and spectral citizenship in Madhusree Dutta’s 7 Islands and a Metro. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 14 (2), pp. 1-24.

    https://doi.org/10.1177/097492762311744

  • Herbert C (2012) Spectrality and secularism in Bombay fiction: Salman Rushdie's the Moor's Last Sigh and Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games. Textual Practice, 26 (5), pp. 941-971.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2012.703227

  • Herbert C (2011) Lyric maps and the legacies of 1971 in Kamila Shamsie's Kartography. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47 (2), pp. 159-172.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.557188

  • Herbert C (2008) "Dishonourably Postnational"?: The Politics of Migrancy and Cosmopolitanism in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 43 (2), pp. 11-28.

    https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989408091229

  • Herbert C (2008) "No Longer a Memoirist but a Voyeur": Photographing and Narrating Bombay in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, pp. 139-150.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/17449850802000522

  • Herbert C (2023) Review of Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English 0475 and related anthologies [Online]. Cambridge Assessment International Education.

  • eds. Chambers C; Herbert C (2014) Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations. Routledge.

  • Herbert C (2013) Postcolonial Cities: South Asia.

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