Biography

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Renée Landell is a writer (signed to Andrew Nurnberg Associates), literary critic & cultural historian currently undertaking doctoral research as a full-time AHRC funded, PhD candidate in the School of Humanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. To find out about her current research click here. Renée is also the founder of Beyond Margins UK, a race equity and justice movement. She runs events and campaigns and designs strategies for UK universities, museums, charities and other organisations. She has appeared on international news stations as a commentator, including Al Jazeera News and CBC (Canada); and will appear alongside Hollywood actor David Harewood in an upcoming BBC TWO documentary on the history of Blackface minstrelsy in Britain. She is also the co-founder of Black in Arts and Humanities, alongside Dr Leighan Renaud, Dr Hannah Robbins and Dr Amber Lascelles.