Deirdre Osborne
Staff details
Dr Deirdre Osborne’s research embraces the Victorian era through to contemporary culture in fiction, drama, life-writing and poetry to focus upon the marginalised voices of disenfranchised and dispossessed groups within this wide spectrum of genres and periods. Her particular emphasis is on women’s writing. This extends into exploring the consequentialist aesthetics, of adoption, mixedness and decolonial narratives through dramatic-poetics and three conceptual models she has developed, “Landmark Poetics”, “Mothertext” and “Didactic Poetics”.
Academic qualifications
PhD New Woman Writers, Motherhood and Colonial Ideology (1880-1903). Birkbeck, University of London.
BA (Hons) English Literature, Kings College, University of London.
National Diploma in Performance Coaching (Education), Newcastle College.
Teaching
A key focus of Deirdre’s career has been working with students who have followed non-traditional routes into education but have achieved levels of academic excellence in an arc spanning universities, further education and prisons. She is above all committed to decolonizing pedagogies and curriculum design and co-convenes the world-first MA Black British Writing that received the Student Union Teaching Award for ‘Compelling and Diverse Curriculum’ (2018). See press coverage: ‘We know how higher education fails black students, so what’s stopping us from fixing it?’ by Abbianca Makoni.
She produced the EdExcel Examination Board materials Contemporary Black British Literature: A Guide (2017) so that A-level English Literature pupils can study this work for their qualification. See: Blog for the Runnymede Trust on decolonizing curriculum, ‘Black British Literature at A-Level: The First Step to Many’.
She has taught on programmes at Birkbeck University of London, New York University, distance learning for the Open University and was Visiting Professor in Postcolonial Literature, University of Palermo, Italy. Her undergraduate teaching includes Shakespeare, Modernism and Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Theory.
Professional activities
Deirdre works collaboratively at the interface between the academy and community in a broader social context. Her public-facing cultural events and landmark academic conferences have created powerful links between Goldsmiths and the constituencies represented by leading figures in the arts and politics, nationally and internationally. These include:
- On Whose Terms?’: Ten Years On… (in Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts) with Birgit Neumann (University of Dusseldorf, Germany), and in association with Catherine Robson (New York University London). Keynote speakers: Jackie Kay, Carol Boyce Davies, Fred D’Aguiar, John McLeod, Charlotte Williams with academic delegates from 14 countries worldwide, local schools, and the general public.
- Daughter of Africa: Celebrating Margaret Busby’s Life in Publishing and Literature (with Goldsmiths Centre for Feminist Research).
- Women, Dissidence, Hope: An Evening with Nawal El Sadaawi in conversation with Heidi Safia Mirza and Deirdre Osborne (with Kadija Sesay and African PEN).
- Black Bodies and Britain’s Cultural Institutions: An Act of Public Li-Ability? Robbie Shilliam, Sara Myers and Courttia Newland – a pop-up event in response to the Barbican’s ‘Exhibit B’ protest.
- The annual Renegade Raconteurs Series (supported by Media Communications and Cultural Studies) inaugurated by The 3Rs:An Evening with Darcus Howe
- D-Day; Celebrating Diane Abbott’s 25 Years as an MP
- Panellists, speakers, artists: Moira Stuart, Ken Livingstone, Herman Lord Ouseley, Darcus Howe, Malorie Blackman, Harriet Harman, Shami Chakrabarty, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hugh Muir, Heidi Safia Mirza, Yvonne Brewster, Angie LeMar, Margaret Busby, Aminatta Forna, Hannah Pool, Patricia Cumper, SuAndi, Malika Booker, Kadija George, Dorothea Smartt.
- Deirdre is the Associate Editor, Women’s Writing; mediaeval period – long nineteenth century (Taylor and Francis) (2012-present).
Selected work
The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature 1945-2010. The first Cambridge Companion that foregrounds the realities of African, Asian diasporic and European cultural lineages inherited by British black and Asian writers. It addresses the issue of trans-nationality, the impact of a globalised world and introduces new areas such as LGBTQI literature, rurality, and adoption aesthetics. Review: Kamila Shamsie, Times Literary Supplement, 3/03/2017.
Mothertext: Restoring the Mixed Matrilineal Routes to Heritage’ in The Story of M and Selected Poems by SuAndi (London: Oberon Books, 2017). Review: Elaine Aston
‘Complex Coalitions: Sex, Gender, Race and Class’, with Leila Hassan for Here to Stay, Here to Fight: Race Today Anthology (London: Pluto Press) which will be launched at the Tate Library, Brixton on 25th October, 2019.
Research Interests
Deirdre’s research analyses the on-going consequences of colonialism to retrieve the very neglected voices in literary history and contemporary culture:
- It foregrounds the phenomenon of maternal aesthetics in processes of colonisation in British and Australian literature (1880-1912).
- It contributes to reconfiguring British literary history through archiving and critically analysing the contributions of black writers, in particular, the achievements of contemporary women writers.
Her new research emphases that have emerged from this work include:
- investigating the representations of mixedness (ethnically and culturally), in poly-generic writing and ego-histoire in reading adoption and mixed-race narratives
- developing a new critical approach, ‘Landmark Poetics’, which extends the borders of the materiality of the voice to engage with the performance of poetry on surfaces (clothing, buildings, pavements, rocks, monuments, and plaques).
- examining ‘consequentialist aesthetics’ as an artistic means for addressing the unequal after-effects of the British Empire and its contemporary legacies in British culture.
Areas of supervision
Deirdre welcomes enquiries across a broad reach of areas: dramatic poetics, life-writing, feminism, Black British writing, and representing adoption, fostering and mixedness and prison theatre. Her chronological scope is from the Victorian period to the present.
Publications and research outputs
Book
Anim-Addo, Joan; Osborne, Deirdre and Sesay, Kadija. 2021. This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Books. London: Quercus Editions. ISBN 9781529414592
Edited Book
Osborne, Deirdre; Howe, Leila Hassan and Peacock, Margaret, eds. 2023. Race Today: A Luta Continua. London: Darcus Howe Legacy Collective. ISBN 9781399949613
Osborne, Deirdre, ed. 2016. The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107139244
Osborne, Deirdre; Brewer, Mary F. and Goddard, Lynette, eds. 2014. Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230303195
Osborne, Deirdre, ed. 2012. Hidden Gems Volume II. London: Oberon Books. ISBN 9781849431484
Osborne, Deirdre, ed. 2011. Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun [Critical Edition]. London: Methuen Drama. ISBN 9781408140901
Osborne, Deirdre, ed. 2011. A Raisin in the Sun. London: Methuen Drama. ISBN 978-1408140901
Osborne, Deirdre, ed. 2008. Hidden Gems. London: Oberon Books. ISBN 1-84002-843-0
Edited Journal
Osborne, Deirdre, ed. 2009. Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing Special Issue for Women: A Cultural Review, Women: A Cultural Review, 10(3). 0957-4042
Book Section
Osborne, Deirdre. 2022. Sites and Sightlines: Staging Andrea Levy’s Small Island. In: , ed. UNSPECIFIED 53 (1-2) Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 219-255.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2021. Emecheta, Florence Onyebuchi [Buchi] (1944–2017). In: David Cannadine, ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2020. ‘”Hearing Voices” and Performing the Mind in debbie tucker green’s Dramatic-Poetics’. In: Siân Adiseshiah and Jacqueline Bolton, eds. debbie tucker green: Critical Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 233-255. ISBN 9783030345808
Osborne, Deirdre. 2020. "Civis Romana sum”: Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe and the Emancipatory Poetics of (Multi-) Cultural Citizenship. In: Jean Wyatt and Sheldon George, eds. Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367189280
Osborne, Deirdre. 2020. Black British Writing: Benjamin Zephaniah’s Didactic Poetics. In: Guido Rings and Sebastian Rassinger, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 412-431. ISBN 9781108555067
Osborne, Deirdre. 2020. 'Routes: a Critical Commentary'. In: Dan Reballato, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Playwriting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2019. The Magnitude of Mothertext. In: Rahila Gupta, ed. Don’t Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong. London: Oberon Books, pp. 7-34. ISBN 9781786827685
Osborne, Deirdre and Hassan, Leila. 2019. ‘Complex Coalitions: Sex, Gender, Race and Class’. In: Paul Field; Robin Bunce; Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock, eds. Here to Stay, Here to Fight: Race Today Anthology. London: Pluto Press, pp. 253-260. ISBN 9780745339757
Osborne, Deirdre. 2018. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965). In: David Palmer, ed. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 115-123. ISBN 9781474276924
Osborne, Deirdre. 2017. 'hang' by debbie tucker green. In: , ed. The Literary Encyclopaedia. London: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd. ISBN 1747-678X
Osborne, Deirdre. 2017. Mothertext: Restoring the Mixed Matrilineal Routes to Heritage. In: S SuAndi, ed. The Story of M and Selected Poems. London: Oberon Books, pp. 10-27. ISBN 9781786821157
Osborne, Deirdre. 2016. Genre and its ‘Diss-contents’: Twenty-First-Century Black British Writing on Page and Stage. In: Katy Shaw, ed. Teaching 21st Century Genres. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 67-88. ISBN 9781137553898
Osborne, Deirdre. 2016. ‘Introduction’. In: Deirdre Osborne, ed. Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781107139244. 9781316504802
Osborne, Deirdre. 2016. ‘Black British Comedy: Desmond’s and the Changing Face of Television’. In: J Kamm and B Neumann, eds. British TV Comedies. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 236-258. ISBN 9781137552945
Brewer, Mary F.; Goddard, Lynette and Osborne, Deirdre. 2015. Framing Black British Drama: Past to Present. In: Mary F. Brewer; Lynette Goddard and Deirdre Osborne, eds. Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9780230303195
Osborne, Deirdre. 2015. Resisting the Standard and Displaying her Colours: debbie tucker green at British Drama’s Vanguard. In: Mary F. Brewer; Lynette Goddard and Deirdre Osborne, eds. Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 161-177. ISBN 9780230303195
Osborne, Deirdre. 2012. Introduction to Hidden Gems Volume II. In: Deirdre Osborne, ed. Hidden Gems Volume II. London: Oberon Books, pp. 11-19. ISBN 9781849431484
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. Roy Williams. In: Martin Middeke; Peter Paul Schnierer and Aleks Sierz, eds. The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights. London: Methuen Books, pp. 487-509. ISBN 978-1-4081-2278-5
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. ‘Black British Drama: debbie tucker green and Kwame Kwei-Armah’. In: Sibylle Baumbach; Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nunning, eds. A History of British Drama: Developments, Interpretations. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 10-20. ISBN ?
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. How Do We Get the Whole Story?: Contra-dictions and Counter-Narratives in debbie tucker green’s Dramatic Poetics. In: Merle Tonnies and Christina Flotmann, eds. Narrative in Drama. 18 Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, ?-?. ISBN 978-3-86821-315-7
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. “Set in Stone”: Lemn Sissay and SuAndi’s Landmark Poetics. In: Arturo Cass and Cordelia Grobner, eds. Performing Poetry: Race, Place and Gender in the Poetry Performance. 24 Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 197-217. ISBN 978-90-420-3329-0
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. “I ain’t British though / Yes you are. You’re as English as I am”: Staging Belonging and Unbelonging in Black British Drama. In: Ulrike Lindner; Mark Mohring; Mark Stein and Silke Stroh, eds. Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States: Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World. (129) Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, pp. 203-227. ISBN 978-90-420-3228-6
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. Black British Drama. In: , ed. A History of British Drama: Developments, Interpretations. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2010. The Body of Text Meets the Body as Text: Staging (I)dentity in the Work of SuAndi and Lemn Sissay. In: Anne Karhio; Sean Crosson and Charles I. Armstrong, eds. Crisis and Contemporary Poetry. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 230-247. ISBN 9780230247246
Osborne, Deirdre. 2009. Lemn Sissay. In: R. Victoria Arana, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First-Century “Black” British Writers. 26 Sumter, South Carolina: Gale Research Company, pp. 261-271. ISBN 978-0-7876-8165-4
Osborne, Deirdre. 2008. Lemn Sissay’s Life’s Source: An Interview and Commentary. In: Deirdre Osborne, ed. Hidden Gems: Contemporary Black British Plays. London: Oberon Books, pp. 318-326. ISBN 1-84002-843-0
Osborne, Deirdre. 2008. Conceiving the Nation: Visions and Versions of Colonial Pre-natality. In: Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and Claudia C. Klaver, eds. Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal. Ohio: Ohio State University Press, pp. 202-226. ISBN 978-0-8142-0286-9
Osborne, Deirdre. 2007. Not 'In-Yer-Face' But What Lies Beneath: Experiential and Aesthetic Inroads in the Drama of debbie tucker green and Dona Daley. In: R. Victoria Arana, ed. Black British Aesthetics Today. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 222-242. ISBN 978-1-8471-8116-9
Osborne, Deirdre. 2007. Angela Y. Davis. In: , ed. Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, pp. 145-148. ISBN 978-0313334290
Osborne, Deirdre. 2007. Staging Indigenous Identities in contemporary Black British Drama. In: , ed. Englishness, Differences and Identity. International Institute for the Study of Englishness, pp. 55-61. ISBN 978-0955124402
Osborne, Deirdre. 2006. The State of the Nation: Contemporary Black British Theatre and the Staging of the UK. In: Dimple Godiwala, ed. Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres. Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 82-100. ISBN 1904303668
Osborne, Deirdre. 2006. Writing Black Back: An Overview of Black Theatre and Performance in Britain. In: Dimple Godiwala, ed. Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatres. Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 61-82. ISBN 1904303668
Osborne, Deirdre. 2006. Judging a book by its cover: reading, race and the search for identity in Fix Up by Kwame Kwei-Armah. In: , ed. Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture Vol. 2. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, pp. 13-29.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2005. The State of the Nation: Contemporary Black British Theatre and the Staging of the UK. In: Christoph Houswitschka and Anja Muller-Muth, eds. Staging Displacement, Exile and Diaspora: Papers given on the occasion of the thirteenth annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 129-149. ISBN 3884767518
Osborne, Deirdre. 1997. “A Recent Look at Black Women Playwrights”. In: , ed. Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers. London: Aurora Metro, pp. 15-20. ISBN 978-0951587720
Article
Osborne, Deirdre. 2021. Rewriting History. Museums Journal, 121(5), pp. 51-53. ISSN 0027-416X
Osborne, Deirdre. 2019. ‘Mixed Messages’. Women: A Cultural Review, 30(3), pp. 373-377. ISSN 0957-4042
Osborne, Deirdre. 2019. ‘From Institutional Exclusion to Institutionalisation: “Decolonising” Literary Curricula’. Wasafiri, 34(4), pp. 128-132. ISSN 0269-0055
Osborne, Deirdre. 2014. A Conversation with Bonnie Greer. Wasafiri, 29(3), pp. 16-21. ISSN 0269-0055
Osborne, Deirdre. 2013. Determination, Dedication, Dynamism: An Interview with Diane Abbott. Women: A Cultural Review, 24(2-3), pp. 169-178. ISSN 0957-4042
Osborne, Deirdre. 2013. Skin Deep, a Self-Revealing Act: Monologue, Monodrama, and Mixedness in the Work of SuAndi and Mojisola Adebayo. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, 1(1), pp. 54-69. ISSN 2195-0164
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. Feminist Stages and Subaltern Sightlines. Contemporary Women’s Writing, 5(3), pp. 252-256. ISSN 1754-1476
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. British Asian Theatre by Dominic Hingorani. Contemporary Theatre Review, 21(4), pp. 536-537. ISSN 1048-6801
Osborne, Deirdre. 2010. debbie tucker green e Dona Daley: duas dramaturgas britânicas negras do novo milênio (debbie tucker green and Dona Daley: Two Neo-millennial Black British Women Playwrights). ANTARES Letras e Humanidades, 4, pp. 25-56. ISSN 1984-4921
Osborne, Deirdre. 2009. Introduction: Longevity and Critical Legitimacy: the So-Called Literary Tradition vs. the Actual Cultural Network. Women: A Cultural Review, 20(3), pp. 239-249. ISSN 0957-4042
Adebayo, Mojisola; Mason-John, Valerie and Osborne, Deirdre. 2009. ‘No Straight Answers’: Writing in the Margins, Finding Lost Heroes. New Theatre Quarterly, 25(1), pp. 6-21. ISSN 0266-464X
Osborne, Deirdre. 2008. Fair trade?: debbie tucker green and sex tourism. Wasfiri, 53, pp. 81-82.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2008. Staging Black Feminisms by Lynette Goddard. Contemporary Theatre Review, 18(1), pp. 123-124. ISSN 1048-6801
Osborne, Deirdre. 2007. “ ‘Know Whence you Came’: Dramatic Art and Black British Identity”. New Theatre Quarterly, 23(3), pp. 253-263. ISSN 0266-464X
Osborne, Deirdre. 2006. `I do not know about politics or government...I am a housewife': The Female Secret Agent and the Male War Machine in Occupied France (1942-5). Women a Cultural Review, 17 (1)(1), pp. 42-64. ISSN 09574042
Osborne, Deirdre. 2006. Writing Black Back: An Overview of Black Theatre and Performance in Britain. Studies in Theatre Performance, 26(1), pp. 13-31. ISSN 1468-2761
Osborne, Deirdre. 2006. In Celebration: Profile on Dona Daley. Sable: Black Literary Mag, 5, pp. 56-59.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2005. Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Elmina’s Kitchen. Wasafiri, 46, p. 76.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2005. Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain by Gabriele Griffin Poetry Off the Page: Twentieth-Century British Women Poets in Performance by Laura Severin. Wasafiri, 44, p. 71.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2004. Dogside Story Patricia Grace. Sable: Black Literary Mag, 5, p. 113.
Conference or Workshop Item
Osborne, Deirdre. 2019. '‘Hearing and Sounding Voices: In the “silence of ink and paper”’(Mills, 2009)'. In: In Pursuit of Sound: An Inter-disciplinary Symposium. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 1-2 October 2019.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2019. '‘Landmark Poetics’'. In: Infrastructural Reading: Forms, Flows, Fragments. City, University of London, United Kingdom 4 June 2019.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2018. 'Didactic Poetics : Critical, Creative, Consequentialist'. In: Race and Poetics and Poetry in the UK: Legacies of Colonialism. Queen's College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 26 October 2018.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2018. 'Ego-histoire and Adoption Aesthetics'. In: Formations: Thinking Kinship through Adoption. Association for Studies in Adoption and Culture (ASAC), Seventh Biennial Conference, Oakland, Marriott Center Hotel, California, United States 19 October 2018.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2018. 'Billy Blue and “Billy Skywonkie”: representing intra-colonial blackness and inter-raciality in nineteenth-century Australia'. In: Settler Social Identities: Rational Recreation in the Long Nineteenth Century. University College Dublin, Ireland 25 July 2018.
Osborne, Deirdre and Neumann, Birgit. 2018. 'On Whose Terms?: Ten Years On... (in Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts)'. In: On Whose Terms?: Ten Years On... (in Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts). Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 22 - 23 March 2018.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2017. 'You think remembering me is enough. It’s not” (from ‘At the Grave of the Unknown African, Henbury Parish Church’): The Landmark Poetics of Fred D’Aguiar and Dorothea Smartt'. In: The Complete Works Diversity in UK Poetry Conference. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2017. 'Becoming and Un-becoming: Securing ‘selves’ in the memoir-fiction of Maxine Beneba Clarke'. In: Caribbean In/Securities and Creativity: Diasporic Dialogues. The British Library, London, United Kingdom 25 June 2017.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2016. 'Beyond Mary Prince: Black Women in Dialogue'. In: What’s Happening in Black British History? : V. Institute of Historical Research, University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre and Peters, Fiona. 2016. 'On Creative and Creating Narratives of Mixedness, Adoption and Fostering in Literary and Sociological Research'. In: New Urban Multicultures: Conviviality and Racism. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2015. 'Male Authors and their Female Spies in Novels of Occupied France'. In: Spying on Spies: Popular Representations of Spies and Espionage. University of Warwick Business School at The Shard, London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2015. '‘Being alone together’ (Pinney 2006): Ego-histoire and Black British Writers’ Adoption Aesthetics'. In: Northeast Modern Languages Association Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2014. 'Embodiment and Embedding: the MA in Black British Writing; Through a Pedagogy of Blackness'. In: Black British Women’s Writing: Tracing the Tradition and New Directions, Black British Women’s Writing Network. University of Brighton, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2014. 'Landmark Poetics: Cultural Capital and the Capital'. In: Capitals, American Comparative Literature Association annual conference. New York University, United States.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2014. 'Genre and its “Diss”contents: Teaching Twenty-First Century Black British Writing on Page and Stage'. In: Genre in Twenty-First Century Teaching, Higher Education Academy conference. University of Brighton, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2013. '‘All is not how it appears to the naked eye’: Creative Agency and Staging Blackness in Contemporary British and Australian Dramatic Literature'. In: Perspectives from ‘Other’ Cultures Translating Culture’. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 20-22 September.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2011. '“Trading Places: New Definitions of ‘Here’ and ‘There’ in Diasporic Drama”.'. In: 6th International Caribbean Women’s Writing Conference: Comparative Critical Conversations.. The Centre for Caribbean Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London., United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2010. '“Diasporic Voices and Aesthetic Choices: Contemporary Black British Women Dramatists’ Experiential and Linguistic Innovations”'. In: Contemporary Women’s Writing: New Texts, Approaches and Technologies Third Biennial Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network. San Diego State University, United States.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2010. '‘“Felt queer all the morning and had to lie down”: (pre)maternal and (pre)natal aesthetics in George Egerton and Barbara Baynton’s short stories’'. In: Celebrating Women’s Writing Lucy Cavendish College. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2010. '“Set in Stone”'. In: Poetry and Voice: A Creative and Critical Conference. University of Chichester, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2010. '“The Page is the Stage: An Exploration of debbie tucker green’s Dramatic Poetics”'. In: Transformations of Narrative in the Postcolonial Era. Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2010. 'Women, Creativity and Dissidence: A Three-day Workshop with Nawal el Saadawi'. In: Women, Creativity and Dissidence: A Three-day Workshop with Nawal el Saadawi. SABLE LitMag and Goldsmiths, University of London., United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2009. '“Mixed Messages: Representing Mixed Heritages in Contemporary British Literature”'. In: Race in the Modern World: An International Conference on Race Discourses and Contemporary Identities Goldsmiths. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2009. '“The Frontline and the Front Room: Representing Black British Domestic Space in Contemporary Writing”'. In: Diaspora Cities: Urban, Mobility and Dwelling Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2009. 'One body, Many voices: Upon ‘Getting the Whole Story’ in the Monodramas of debbie tucker green and Mojisola Adebayo'. In: Fractured Narratives: Pinter Postmodernism and the Postcolonial World Pinter Centre, Goldsmiths. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2009. 'Race in the Modern World: An International Conference on Race Discourses and Contemporary Identities'. In: Race in the Modern World: An International Conference on Race Discourses and Contemporary Identities. Goldsmiths, University of London and the Stephen Lawrence Trust, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre; Brandt, Godfrey and Stein, Mark. 2008. 'On Whose Terms?: Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts'. In: On Whose Terms?: Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts. Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2007. 'Blackness and (Un)Belonging in Britain'. In: Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States: Insecurity and Anxiety in Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World. University of Muenster, Germany.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2007. '“Passing the Baton in Athletic Poetics: debbie tucker green's Linguistic Legacy”'. In: Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference. New Orleans, United States.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2007. '“ ‘Our Mothers, Ourselves’: Staging (I)dentity politics in SuAndi’s The Story of M and Lemn Sissay’s Something Dark”'. In: Tenth Nordic Conference for English Studies. University of Bergen, Contemporary Poetry Panel, Northern Mariana Islands.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2007. 'The Body of Text Meets the Body as Text: the Monodramas of SuAndi and Lemn Sissay'. In: Renewals: Refiguring University English in the 21st Century, Royal Holloway. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2006. '“Not ‘in-yer-face’ but what lies beneath: experiential and aesthetic inroads in the drama of debbie tucker green and Dona Daley”'. In: “Black” British Aesthetics Today: The Howard University Symposium Howard University. Washington D.C., United States.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2006. 'Chair: “Promiscuous Dramaturgies”'. In: Ravenhill Ten Years On Goldsmiths. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2005. '“ ‘I ain’t British though / Yes you are. You’re as English as I am’: Staging Indigenous Identities in contemporary Black British Drama.”'. In: International Conference for Englishness Studies University College. Winchester, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2004. 'BlackOUT – acts of ventriloquism and authenticity in representing indigenous women from Katie Langloh Parker to Leah Purcell'. In: Playing Australia Annual American Association for Australian Literary Studies. New York, United States.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2004. 'The State of the Nation – Contemporary Black British Drama and the Staging of the UK'. In: Staging Displacement, Exile and Diaspora German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Bamberg, Germany.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2004. 'The Body of Experience: Women Behind Bars in Contemporary British Drama'. In: Interventionist Theatre. University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2004. 'Not so lonely anymore: contemporary Black British writers and the legacy of Sam Selvon'. In: Literary London Institute of English Studies. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2004. 'Bringing up baby: food, nurture and childrearing at home and abroad'. In: Cooking Culture: Food and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century Institute of English Studies. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2003. 'Conceiving the Nation: representations of late-nineteenth-century women and pregnancy in George Egerton and Barbara Baynton'. In: Cartographies of Corporeality ACLA Conference. San Marco, California, United States.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2002. 'Secrets and Lies: Women Spies and their counterfeits in 1940s Occupied France'. In: Retrieving the 1940s. University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2001. 'Gender and Gaols: Some Critical Reflections upon Educational Praxis'. In: The Politics of Gender and Education: third international conference Institute of Education. , University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2001. 'Secret Subversions: the Female Spy in life, Film and Literature (France 1940-45)'. In: Memory, Gender and War. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2000. 'Ida B. Wells: A Black New Woman currently out-of-print'. In: Feminist Forerunners: The New Woman and the International Periodical Press. Manchester University, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 2000. '“Coursing into the Mainstream: Recent Black British Fiction and its Critical Reception”'. In: The Black Gaze. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 1999. '“A Literary Perspective on Australian Motherhood in the 1890s” Victorian Crime and Society University of London, Chair “Women in Prisons”'. In: Gender and Commonwealth Institute of Commonwealth Studies. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 1999. 'Gender Relations, Drama and the Prison Space'. In: Whose Theatre is it Anyway? Performance, Politics and Community. University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 1999. 'Curricula in Women’s Prisons'. In: Curricula in Women’s Prisons. Hillcroft College, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 1998. '“Imperial Housekeeping: Domestic Revisions in the Australian Colonial Context”'. In: First New Woman Conference: Gendering the Fin-de-Siecle Institute of English Studies,. University of London, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 1998. 'Conceiving the Nation: Representations of Colonial M(other)hood in Fin-de-siecle Australian Literature'. In: Colonial (Dis)continuities Legacies of Empire in Modern Literature. Worchester College of Higher Education Paper, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre. 1998. 'Ida B. Wells and Angela Davis: Black ‘New’ Women'. In: Consumption, Fantasy, Desire and Success. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Osborne, Deirdre; Marcus, Laura; Parsons, Deborah; Richardson, Angelique and Willis, Chris. 1998. 'First New Woman Conference: Gendering the Fin-de-Siecle'. In: First New Woman Conference: Gendering the Fin-de-Siecle. Institute of English Studies,University of London, United Kingdom.
Audio
Osborne, Deirdre; Anim-Addo, Joan and Sesay, Kadija. 2022. Vital Discussions: On Demand – Decolonise Your Bookshelf.
Other
Nichols, Grace and Osborne, Deirdre. 2020. 'Breath' by Grace Nichols. Goldsmiths, New Cross.
