People

If you’re looking to connect or collaborate on queer research, performances, creative writing, artworks, and so on, the Queer Research Network Manchester wants to help bring queer researchers, activists, and artists together. For previous members of the queer research network, see our founders.

Seerat Fatima (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research is focused on studying the representation of Muslim identities in colonial and post-colonial South Asia in post-1947 literature, mainly focused on how literary constructions of nostalgia and trauma have created a sense of majoritarian and minority identities in South Asia over the past 75 years. During her MPhil in Textual and Visual Studies program at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, she worked on the aesthetics of resistance and the politics of queer Afrofuturists in America under neoliberalism. Her research interests include postcolonial theory, queer and trans literature, along with performance art and subaltern studies. 

Clare Patterson (they/she) is a writer and NWCDTP-funded PhD student at the University of Manchester. They are currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing on the British countryside, the climate crisis, and queer temporality, which includes a hybrid non-fiction work on Northumberland, memory, and futurity, and a thesis on place and embodiment in queer British life writing. They can be contacted at clarejmpatterson@gmail.com or clare.patterson@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk, and can be found on Twitter @clarepttrsn.

Meg Wilson (she/they) is a PhD student at the University of Manchester with a background in film, gender and sexuality studies. They watched Carol aged 17 and as a result, their thesis now focuses on the lesbian period drama, examining the cinematic and cultural imaginaries that produce lesbianism as a thing of the past. Their other lesbian interests include women’s football, video games, and cats. Reach them via email at megan.wilson@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk, or @cinemegs.