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NEW Dr Delia Arts, Fashion & Design
2018 Women’s Studies at the University of Kent. Based on that
Jarrett-Macauley programme of work, she subsequently edited the 1996
Chair, Caine Prize board of trustees; anthology Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing
Award-winning political writer Feminism: Writings on Black Women, the first British
feminist anthology to examine concepts of womanhood
and feminism within the context of ‘race’ and ethnicity.
Dee Jarrett-Macauley is the first woman and first person She also devised and led the Arts Management Programme
of colour to chair the prestigious Caine prize. She has also at Birkbeck College, London.
won the Orwell prize for political writing. She has been a visiting fellow in Gender Studies at the
An accomplished writer, academic and broadcaster with London School of Economics and has taught a range of
a career spanning over 20 years, Dee has published three courses at the Universities of Kent, London and Middlesex.
books, the most recent being her first novel Moses, Citizen Delia has also edited Shakespeare, Race and
and Me, which received the Orwell Prize for political Performance: The Diverse Bard in Contemporary Britain,
writing. A multi-disciplinary scholar in history, literature with contributors who include Eldred Durosimi Jones,
and cultural politics, Delia was recently a fellow on Jatinder Verma, Naseem Khan, Dawn Monique Williams,
‘Multicultural Shakespeare’ at the University of Warwick. Michael Pearce, Lynette Goddard, Varsha Panjwani, Jami
Her university teaching career began in 1989, when she Rogers, Michael McMillan, Iqbal Khan, Diane Allison-
ran the first black women’s studies courses on the MA in Mitchell, Pat Cumper, Sita Thomas and Terri Power.

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