Professor Alan Rice
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Alan is Director of the UCLan Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora and Exile and Co-Director of the Institute for Black Atlantic Research. Alan is also a Professor in English and American Studies. Alan's scholarship has led to collaborative projects with museums and community organisations. He has published 3 monographs and many articles. He teaches across a range of subjects for our literature and cultural team. Alan was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in 2007. Alan also supervises postgraduate projects on American and Black Atlantic subjects.
Alan was appointed Professor in 2012 and formed the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), Britain's first culturally focused research centre on the Black Atlantic in 2014 as co-director with Lubaina Himid. More recently in 2019 he was appointed Director of the UCLan Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX) which has over 60 members across the University. His expertise has led to being invited to give public lectures over 100 times including in the USA, Spain, Germany, France, Poland, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Holland and Switzerland. He has been successful in securing three European Union Marie Sklodwsky Curie Intra-European Fellowship grants since 2014 with German and Polish postdoctoral fellows (Raphael Hoermann, Izabella Penier & Astrid Haas) all doing projects on the Black Atlantic and in 2019 secured Leverhulme Trust Fellowship funding for a 3 year project on Women in the Haitian Revolution (Nicole Willson fellow).
- Director
- PhD American Studies, Keele University, 1997
- MA American Cultural Studies, Bowling Green State University
- MA (hons) English and History, University of Edinburgh, 1984
- Higher Education Academy, National Teaching Fellowship 2007
- Black Atlantic Cultures
- African American Literature and Cultures
- Memory and Memorialisation\Museums
- External Member of the Board Centre for the Study of International Slavery, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
- Board Member Lancaster Jazz Festival
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- Institute for Black Atlantic Research
- UCLan Research Centre in Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX)
- Literature and Cultures Research Group
- Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass in Britain, 1995-present
- Black Atlantic Memorials, 2007-present
- The Windrush Generation in Preston (with Preston Black History Group), 2018-present
- Margins of the Black Atlantic, 2019-present
- May 2019 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship: Nicole Willson, Fanm Rebèl: Recovering the Histories of Haiti's Women Revolutionaries £91,000 to UCLan (PI)
- February 2019 EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Skoldowska Intra-European Fellowship: Astrid Haas “Black Inter- American Mobility and Autobiography in the Age of Revolutions 1760-1860.” 212,933 Euros (PI)
- January 2017 Stuart Hall Foundation PhD Studentship Grant for a creative practice project on “The Black Atlantic and the North”. £36,000 (PI)
- August 2016 EU Horizon 2020 Marie Curie Skoldowska Intra-European Fellowship: Izabella Penier “Black Women/Black Nationalism – Feminist Discourses on Nation-building in American and British Literature and Visual Arts”. 195,455 Euros. (PI)
- April 2014 EU FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship: Raphael Hoermann “Transatlantic Politics of Horror and Terror in Gothic Narratives of the Haitian Revolution 1791-2011”. 299,558 Euros. (PI)
- July 2007 AHRC research leave for the book project Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic c.£27,000 (PI)
- June 2007 HEA National Teaching Fellowship £10,000 (PI)
- International Symposium Co-Organiser: Creative Conversations: Black Women Artists Making and Doing Influences and Inspirations of Literature and Language on Black Women’s Creativity, University of Central Lancashire, January 16-17, 2020
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Email: Email:Professor Alan Rice
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