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Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research interests in art history, literary, gender and cultural studies cover two main areas: postcolonialism and sexualities. In postcolonial studies her publications include Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation (Routledge, 1996) and Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, edited with Sara Mills (Edinburgh University Press, Routledge, 2003). Her new work centres on Turkey and will be published as Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem in 2004 (IB Tauris). She is also Series Editor, with Teresa Heffernan, of Cultures in Dialogue, a twelve-volume project that will bring back to view travel writings by Western and Eastern women, 1840-1950. In sexuality studies, Reina Lewis is editor of the agenda-setting collection Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay sexualities and Visual Cultures, with Peter Horne (Routledge, 1996) and has written extensively on lesbian literary and visual culture, gay fashion and queer cultural theory. Reina Lewis has given key note and plenary papers on these topics at conferences in Turkey, the Yemen, Kuwait, Portugal, Spain, Canada, the United States and elsewhere.
Postcolonialism, travel and gender, Middle East studies (Ottoman), lesbian/gay/queer theory, fashion and consumption.
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