Background

Qualifications

PhD American Studies, University of Nottingham

MA American Studies, University of Nottingham

BA English Literature & History, Lancaster University

Previous Positions

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Nottingham (2013-16)

Postdoctoral Co-director, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, University of Nottingham (2015-16)

Publications

• Bernier CM, Rice A, Durkin HK. Inside the Invisible: Slavery and Memory in the Works of Lubaina Himid (1985-2018). Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2019.
• Durkin HK. Frederick Douglass in the Age of Moving Pictures. In: Bernier,CM; Lawson,B, ed. Pictures and Power Imaging Frederick Douglass. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2017, pp.231-254.
• Durkin HK. Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
• Bernier CM, Durkin HK. 'Inside the Invisible': African Diasporic Artists Visualise Transatlantic Slavery. In: Bernier, CM; Durkin, HK, ed. Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016, pp.1-13.
• Durkin HK. Haitians are demanding democracy, but foreign interests prefer the status quo. The Conversation, 2016. Available at: https://theconversation.com/haitians-are-demanding-democracy-but-foreign-interests-prefer-the-status-quo-53592.
• Durkin HK. 'The Greatest Negro Monuments on Earth': Richmond Barthé's Memorials to Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. In: Bernier,CM;Durkin,HK, ed. Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2016, pp.184-200.
• Bernier CM, Durkin HK, ed. Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016.
• Durkin HK. A new government in Haiti, but foreign interest still rules. The Conversation Trust, 2015. Available at: https://theconversation.com/a-new-government-in-haiti-but-foreign-interest-still-rules-36319.
• Hills P, Buick KP, Durkin HK. Roundtable - Renee Ater, Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller. Journal of American Studies 2014, 48(3), 1-5.
• Durkin HK. Cinematic ‘Pas de Deux’: The Dialogue between Maya Deren’s Experimental Filmmaking and Talley Beatty’s Black Ballet Dancer in A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945). Journal of American Studies 2013, 47(2), 385-403.
• Durkin HK. Remembering Slavery on Screen: Paul Robeson in The Song of Freedom (1936). Slavery & Abolition 2013, 34(2), 252-65.
• Durkin HK. ‘It’s All the Way You Look at It, You know’: Reading Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson’s Film Career. New Review of Film and Television Studies 2012, 10(2), 230-45.
• Durkin HK. Dance Anthropology and the Impact of 1930s Haiti on Katherine Dunham’s Scientific and Artistic Consciousness. International Journal of Francophone Studies 2011, 14(1-2), 123-42.
• Durkin HK. ‘Tap Dancing on the Racial Boundary’: Racial Representation and Artistic Experimentation in Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson’s Stormy Weather Performance. Irish Journal of American Studies 2010, 2, Online.
• Durkin HK. Zora Neale Hurston's visual and textual portrait of Middle Passage survivor Oluale Kossola/Cudjo Lewis. Slavery & Abolition 2017, 38(3), 601-619.
• Durkin H. Interview with Lubaina Himid. In: Himid L; Bernier CM; Rice A; Durkin H, ed. Inside the invisible: Memorialising Slavery and Freedom in the Life and Works of Lubaina Himid. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2019.
• Durkin H. Zora Neale Hurston, Film, and Ethnography. In: Farebrother R; Thaggert M, ed. A History of the Harlem Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp.290-306.
• Durkin HK. Finding Last Middle Passage Survivor Sally 'Redoshi' Smith on the Page and Screen. Slavery & Abolition 2019, 40(4), 631-658.
• Durkin H. Redoshi / Sally Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Submitted.
• Durkin H. Uncovering the Hidden Lives of Last Clotilda Survivor Matilda McCrear and Her Family. Slavery & Abolition 2020, 41(3), 431-457.