- Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies, Lancaster University
Charlotte Baker is Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures. She holds a BA in French and English Literature from Lancaster University, and an MA and PhD from Nottingham University.
Charlotte's research focuses on albinism, questions of disability, marginality and human rights, and the role of the arts in bringing about social change.
She is currently leading the Disability and Inclusion Africa project, funded by the AHRC and Global Challenges Research Fund https://www.dia-network.org/
Experience
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2014–presentSenior Lecturer, Lancaster University
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2017–presentAssociate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
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2021–presentProfessor, Lancaster University
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2024–presentAssociate Dean Engagement, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
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2007–2014Lecturer , Lancaster University
Education
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2007PhD, Nottingham University
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2003MA , Nottingham University
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2000PGDip, Brunel University
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1999BA Hons, Lancaster University
Publications
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2024Charlotte Baker and Ken Junior Lipenga, ‘‘Alternative Explanations’: Literary Representations of Disability in sub-Saharan Africa’, Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Disability Studies
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2022Charlotte Baker and Elvis Imafidon, eds, Changing Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change , Peter Lang
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2022Charlotte Baker, ‘Literature as Advocacy: Fictional Representations of Albinism in African Contexts’, in Charlotte Baker and Elvis Imafidon (eds), Changing Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change
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2022Charlotte Baker and Elvis Imafidon, eds, ‘Understanding Disability in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Special issue, Review of Disability Studies: An international journal 17.5
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2021Charlotte Baker, Patricia Lund, Bonface Massah and Jones Mawerenga, ‘We are human, just like you: Albinism in Malawi – Implications for Security', Journal of Humanities 29.1: 57-84.
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2018The Struggle Against Impunity in the Bukinabe Dictator-Novel, Research in African Literatures
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2017The Role of African Fiction in Educating about Albinism and Human Rights, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
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2016Premier colloque international sur l'albinisme oculocutane en Afrique subsaharienne, Douala, Cameroun, 24-25 juillet 2015, Medicine et Sante Tropicale 26.2
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2015Multilingual literature and official bilingualism in Cameroon: Francis Nyamnjoh’s A Nose for Money (2006) and Patrice Nganang’s Temps de chien (2001), International Journal of Francophone Studies 18.1
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2014Necropolitical violence and post-independence Guinean Literature, International Journal of Francophone Studies 17.3-4
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2011Enduring Negativity: Representations of Albinism in the Fictional Work of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine, Peter Lang
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2010The Myths surrounding People with Albinism in South Africa and Zimbabwe, Journal of African Cultural Studies 22.2
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2009Expressions of the Body: Representations in African Text and Image. , Peter Lang
Grants and Contracts
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2024Mapping witchcraft legislation
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- QRSPF
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2024Gender-based violence in Kenya
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- ISPF ODA
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2023Alternative Explanations for Disability: Inspiring patient-centred care
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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2023Implementing Resolution 47/8
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- AHRC IAA
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2021Albinism in Sierra Leone
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- ESRC IAA
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2019AHRC GCRF Networking Grant – ‘Alternative Explanations: Disability and Inclusion in Africa’
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- PI
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council
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2019UKRI Quality Research – Strategic Priorities Fund
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- PI
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- UKRI QRSPF
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2017Global Challenges Kick Starter Funding
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- Lancaster University
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2017Impact and Knowledge Exchange Grant
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- Lancaster University
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2016Impact and Knowledge Exchange Grant
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- Lancaster University
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2015Changing Perceptions of Albinism in Africa
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- Wellcome Trust International Small Grants Scheme (Medical Humanities)
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2014Interdisciplinary Approaches to Albinism
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- PI
- Funding Source:
- Wellcome Trust Small Grants Scheme (Medical Humanities)
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2014Knowledge Exchange Fellowship
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- PI
- Funding Source:
- Lancaster University
Professional Memberships
- Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
- National Working Group on Abuse Linked to Faith and Belief
- International Network Against Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks
Honours
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Contact Charlotte for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
