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Susan Watkins

Susan Watkins

Susan Watkins is principal lecturer in English at the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, where her main teaching interests are in 20th-century women's fiction and feminist theory. She is a founder member of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network, and was academic coordinator of the second international Doris Lessing conference, held in July 2007.

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Doris Lessing: writing against and for

The Nobel literature award honours an eternal outsider whose critical distance from orthodoxy fuels her work's remarkable "predictive" quality, says Susan Watkins.

[Also on openDemocracy: Müge Galin on the Sufi dimension of Doris Lessing's work - click here]