Emily E. Roach, PhDDr Emily Roach is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Law and a researcher specialising in the intersections between law, contemporary literature, media and culture and LGBTQ+ experiences.
Emily studied Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and the postgraduate Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, before training and qualifying with a large City firm. Specialising in corporate insolvency and business restructuring, Emily later moved to an American firm where much of her practice was shaped by the 2008 Financial Crisis. During this time, Emily completed a Masters in Children's Literature. Emily left private practice after twelve years in the City, to pursue a career in Higher Education. Emily completed a Masters in Contemporary Literature and Culture with Distinction and a PhD in English at the University of York. During this time Emily taught Literature and Film on several undergraduate courses, including Critical Practice and Reading Modernity. Emily remains on the roll as a non-practising solicitor. Emily now teaches Law at undergraduate and postgraduate level and has held, or currently holds, governance positions on charity trustee boards and other not-for-profit organisations. Emily is a member of the American Studies Association, the Society of Legal Scholars and the Socio-Legal Studies Association and is a Fellow of the HEA. |
Research |
Emily's interdisciplinary research focuses on law, twentieth and twenty-first century LGBT literature, slam and spoken word poetry, contemporary LGBT media and queer theoretical approaches to popular culture.
Emily's current research includes a collaborative project on the policing of British music subcultures, a chapter on queer desire and coercive control in World War I fiction and a paper on legal precarity in post marriage equality queer horror. Emily has delivered papers on conversion therapy and young adult fiction, online performance poetry and judicial control over queer bodies in the United States, the legislative path to gay liberation in Britain contextualised with reference the Lavender Scare and poetry from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Emily has also given various talks on LGBT activist groups lobbying for legislative change and has undertaken work on bias in artificial intelligence. |
Publications / Media |
Emily has published a variety of book chapters and peer reviewed articles and has undertaken peer review work for several journals.
Emily has also published non-academic writing inspired by her academic research in Bustle, The Mary Sue and elsewhere. Together with non-fiction, Emily has published flash fiction, short stories and creative non-fiction in literary journals under a pseud and has worked voluntarily as an Associate Prose Editor at a literary journal. Emily has been invited to contribute to various media discussions on BBC Radio York, Radio Five Live and multiple podcasts and has been quoted in articles by The Guardian. |