Dr Catherine Gilbert is an Academic Track (NUAcT) Fellow in the School of Modern Languages at Newcastle University, UK, having recently completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at Ghent University, Belgium (2018-2020). Her research interests span postcolonial African literatures and cultures, with a particular focus on cultural memory, trauma and narrative, and her current project examines genocide commemoration and education in the Rwandan diaspora. Her first monograph, From Surviving to Living: Voice, Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing (Pulm, 2018), received the Memory Studies Association Outstanding First Book Award in 2019. She has recently co-edited, with Kate McLoughlin and Niall Munro, the volume On Commemoration: Global Reflections upon Remembering War (Peter Lang, 2020).
Dr Catherine Gilbert est chargée de recherche (NUAcT Fellow) à l’Université de Newcastle, UK, ayant obtenu une bourse postdoctorale Marie Sklodowska-Curie à l’Université de Gand en Belgique de 2018 à 2020. Ses recherches portent sur les littératures et cultures africaines postcoloniales, plus particulièrement sur la mémoire culturelle, le trauma et la narration. Son projet de recherche actuel analyse la commémoration et l’éducation du génocide dans la diaspora rwandaise. Son premier livre, From Surviving to Living: Voice, Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing (Pulm, 2018), a reçu le prix du meilleur premier livre de la Memory Studies Association) en 2019. Elle a coédité, avec Kate McLoughlin et Niall Munro, le volume On Commemoration: Global Reflections upon Remembering War (Peter Lang, 2020).