Birth— 
Where—Leeds, UK
Education—University of Leeds
Currently—York, UK

Bibliography

• Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1988 (2015)

   

Dr. Claire Chambers is currently teaching in the University of York. She is Senior Lecturer in Global Literature, Convenor of the MA in Global Literature and Culture, and Acting Graduate Chair (Autumn Term 2016). Before coming to the University of York, she worked for eight years in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and completed her MA and PhD at the University of Leeds.

Claire is the author of Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780−1989(2015) and British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2011), and editor (with Caroline Herbert) of Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations (2014).

Not only is she known for her writing on literary representations of Muslims in Britain and South Asia, but also for her work on the Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh.

She has published widely in such journals as Postcolonial Text, Crossings, and Contemporary Women’s Writing. Claire is also Co-editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Her interest in the literature of the Indian subcontinent and ‘the Muslim world’, according to her, was originally inspired by the year she worked as an English language teacher at a mixed-gender school in Peshawar, at least a third of whose pupils were Afghan refugees. It continues to be informed by return visits to the subcontinent, and by engagement work with diasporic communities.My interest in this region and its literature was 

She writes regularly for the Dawn Pakistan as well as Huffington Post UK. 

Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780-1988
Claire Chambers
In the year 1873, Naseer-ed Din Shah Qajar, then King of Persia, published a Safarnama, or travelogue, of his travels in Europe. Of the London portion of his trip, the Persian king wrote thus: “Today before seeing the ministers and others, the English fire brigade came and in the garden at the back of our palace went through their exercise.

From ‘England-returned’ to ‘myth of return’ to the point of no return
Claire Chambers
On the literary representations and of elite and working-class British Muslim immigrants recorded during 1780-1988
I have been working on my recently published book (Britain Through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations, 1780−1988) and related projects for a decade, since the revelation that three of the four 7/7 bombers were from my home city of Leeds.

Arab Muslim Writing in Britain
Claire Chambers
Since 1855, both orthodox and non-practising Arab Muslim writers have produced an exciting, politicized, and high-quality body of artistic work. Among other aims, it seeks to portray the concerns of British-based members of the transnational faith group, or ummah.