Claire Chambers

Claire Chambers is Professor of Global Literature at the University of York, where she researches and teaches writing from South Asia and the Perso-Arab world. She is a well-known writer and literary critic. Her research focuses on modern literature from South Asia and diaspora, and on writing by authors of Muslim heritage. She was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature for more than a decade. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and writes a regular literary column for Dawn (Pakistan).