Ellis Walker

Ellis Walker is a PhD English Literature candidate at the University of Sheffield. Her research excavates the digital and material spaces and places where black British authors and their books are discussed. As a member of the Black Writers' Guild she is invested in raising awareness of racial inequalities in the publishing industry, which forms a large part of the thesis. In 2017 she completed her MA in Black British Writing from Goldsmiths University, with a research project that became a survey of blackness in Britain from the Windrush era to present day.

Ellis is also a writer and editor for the Lit Collective Student blog in partnership with the University of Sheffield, run by and exclusively for womxn of colour. (www.tlcsheffield.com/student-blog) Her areas of interest are sci-fi and Afrofuturism in UK contexts, British and Korean TV series and travel writing.

Post-PhD, Ellis hopes to open a black cultural archive in the north of England to help other curious minds become more aware of the blackness in Britain outside of the major cities.