戴德睿·奥斯本

Prof. Deirdre Osborne

Deirdre Osborne, PhD, Hon FRSL, FRSA, SFHEA, is a Distinguished Professor of literature and drama in English at Central China Normal University and at Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-founder of the MA Black British Literature (2015-24), her research spans late-Victorian to contemporary literature in Britain, Australia and the United States. She is editor of Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature(1945-2010)(2016), co-author of This is the Canon: Decolonise Your Bookshelf in Fifty Books (2021), and co-editor of the Special Issue of Race Today: La Luta Continua (2023). Recent essays include: “‘They were so busy seeing my face that they wouldn’t hear my accent’: Jackie Kay’s Monumental Poetics,” in Jackie Kay: Critical Essays (2026); “A ‘silence’ that will not quite stay put: The sites and sights of landmark poetics in the works of Lemm Sissay and Dorothea Smartt,” in Spaces in Transit: Literary and Cultural Responses to Mnemonic Landscapes (2025), and “‘The rule of three’: Textual triads, trialogues and women’s voices in Sylvia Plath, Jackie Kay and debbie tucker green,” in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism (2023).