Thomas Lockwood-Moran

Thesis title:

Global Queer Literary Resistance: Contemporary Caribbean Communality

Research Area

Languages and Literature

Publications

‘Against straight-forwardness: Global queer communality in the literary twists of Shani Mootoo’s Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue, 'Emerging Textual Cross-Sections’ (confirmed Spring 2025).

Conferences

Co-Convenor:

‘Patterns of Struggle and Solidarity' hosted by Postcolonial Studies Centre/ Bonington Gallery - http://www.boningtongallery.co.uk/events/patterns-of-struggle-and-solidarity Organised by NTU PSC and convened by Dr Nicole Thiara, Dr Amy Rushton, Dr Jenni Ramone, Midlands4Cities funded PhD researcher Thomas Lockwood-Moran and PhD researcher Purnachandra Naik.

Presentation:

University of West Indies/ University of Leicester Summer School 2023.

'Worldmaking Around the World: Queer Media and Culture in Circulation' hosted by the University of Exeter 21-22 May 2021 - http://translatingforchange.exeter.ac.uk/conference/

44th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) 5-10 July 2021 - http://community-languages.org.uk/scs/conference-2021/

Summer School:

I have gained accredited diploma attendance at The University of West Indies/University of Leicester Summer School at University of Leicester in 2019; UWI Mona Campus, Jamaica, in 2022, and University of Leicester in 2023.

I have been accepted to attend the next iteration of The University of West Indies/University of Leicester Summer School at UWI St Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago, in 2024.

These Summer Schools include a week of intensive study, knowledge exchange, and networking, with scholars and cultural practitioners from across the Caribbean, as well as those who travelled to the school internationally. These schools help to facilitate the engage in organic and long-term professional connections as well as archive research at relevant institutions.

Public Engagement & Impact

November 15^th2022: I curated a live in-person event, 'Channelling Queer Depths', at Nottingham Contemporary with Trinidadian poet Shivanee Ramlochan. This event was a continuation of a previous event in February 2022 and formed part of the public programme at Nottingham Contemporary coinciding with their exhibition 'Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary'. Online legacy of the event can be found free online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvQ4QqSyceg .

The above event was coupled with a free public writing workshop on November 16^th by poet Shivanee Ramlochan at Bonington Gallery as a collaboration between the gallery, The Postcolonial studies Centre at NTU, and Nottingham Contemporary.

February 16th 2022: live online in-conversation with Indo-Trinidadian poet Shivanee Ramlochan entitled 'The Power of Queer Caribbean Love'. Presented via Bonington Gallery and the Postcolonial Studies Centre at Nottingham Trent University. Avaliable free online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBehfuGHsfA

Public screening of emmy award winning director Reginald Campbell's 'Tolerance' (2013) plus in-discussion event as part of 'Patterns of Struggle and Solidarity' - http://www.boningtongallery.co.uk/events/patterns-of-struggle-and-solidarity , June 2021.

Project manager for a public screening and discussion event at Nottingham Contemporary 'Concerning Violence' (2014), an award-winning documentary written and directed by Swedish filmmaker, Göran Olsson. Followed g will by a conversation with artist, curator and educator Barby Asante and lecturer Amy Rushton, moderated by poet and researcher Panya Banjoko. Curated by NTU MA and PhD students Roxie Ablett, Arwa Nasser Almefawaz, Victoria Zoe Callus, Bethan Evans, and Tom Lockwood-Moran.
https://nottinghamcontemporary.org/whats-on/artists-film-concerning-violence/

Memberships

The Society for Caribbean Studies (UK).

Teaching Experience

Lecture given on queer representation at Nottingham Trent University (2019) on the second year undergraduate module 'Black Writing in Britian'.

A Maters lecture and worshop teaching assistant for Dr Amy Rushton - 'Advanced Introduction to Queer Theory' - at Nottingham Trent University (2020).

Employed as Hourly Paid Lecturer, seminar leader, on the first year undergraduate module 'New Horizons' (intro to literary theory), at Nottingham Trent University (2020/21).

Employed as Hourly Paid Lecturer, seminar leader, on the third-year undergraduate module 'Postcolonial Texts', at Nottingham Trent University (2021/22).