Fiona was awarded a PhD in English and Religious Studies in 2006. She is a lecturer in Religion at the University of Stirling, working in the Literature and Languages Division. She is also the Book Reviews Editor for the internationally acclaimed journal "Literature and Theology: An interdisciplinary Journal of Religion, Literature and Culture", published by Oxford University Press. She is also a member of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture and the convenor of the postcolonial panel at their biennial conference. Her work focuses on the representation and politics of the term 'religion'; postcolonial theory and colonialism; gender studies and feminism; Caribbean and postcolonial literatures (including writers such as Edwidge Danticat, Chimanada Ngozie Adichie, Derk Walcott, Jean Rhys, and Erna Broder) and Caribbean culture with a specific interest in Rastafari and vodou. In the past, Fiona has taught at the University of Glasgow, where she worked as the skills training co-ordinator for the Faculty of Arts, supporting PhD students. She has also taught on the Offender's Learning programme for the Scottish Prison Service, teaching creative writing and English at HMP Glenochil, HMP Cornton Vale and HMP Barlinnie.
Caribbean literature and religions; critical religion; critical theory, specifically postcolonial theory and feminism; material religion.
Book Review
The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster
Darroch F (2023) The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster. Review of: The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2022. 440pp. Literature & Theology. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frad019
Editorial
Introduction to Special Issue on Postcolonial Women's Writing and Material Religion: New Directions
Darroch F & Jasper A (2021) Introduction to Special Issue on Postcolonial Women's Writing and Material Religion: New Directions. Literature and Theology, 35 (4), pp. 379-382. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab030
Article
An interview with Mayra Rivera: Postcolonial women's writing and material religion
Rivera M, Jasper A & Darroch F (2021) An interview with Mayra Rivera: Postcolonial women's writing and material religion. Literature and Theology, 35 (4), pp. 383-395. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab025
Article
Darroch F & Jasper A (2021) The Ghosts of Lilith: Haunting narratives of witness and the postcolonial poetry of Shivanee Ramlochan. Literature and Theology, 35 (4), pp. 433-448. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frab029
Article
Journeys of Becoming: hair, the blogosphere and theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah
Darroch F (2020) Journeys of Becoming: hair, the blogosphere and theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah. Text Matters, (10), pp. 135-150. https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.10.08
Book Chapter
Darroch F (2019) "Ou libéré?" Vodou and Haiti: Speaking the Language of Resistance, Remembrance and Freedom in the Writing of Edwidge Danticat. In: Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz S (ed.) Translating Wor(l)ds: Christianity Across Cultural Borders. Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 51. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, pp. 283-304. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783896657954-283
Website Content
Jasper A, Hass A, Saade B, Darroch F & Gao Z (2019) Religion Under Fire. The Critical Religion Association - Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion [Website content] 05.05.2019.
Website Content
Edwidge Danticat ‘Creating Dangerously'
Darroch F (2015) Edwidge Danticat ‘Creating Dangerously'. The Critical Religion Association - Critical Approaches the the Study of Religion [Website content] 03.11.2015.
Website Content
Jackie Kay’s encounter with double consciousness and religion
Darroch F (2013) Jackie Kay’s encounter with double consciousness and religion. The Critical Religion Association - Critical Approaches to the Study of Religion [Website content] 30.10.2013.
Book Chapter
Re-Imagining the Sacred in Caribbean Literature
Darroch F (2011) Re-Imagining the Sacred in Caribbean Literature. In: Walton H (ed.) Literature and Theology: New Interdisciplinary Spaces. London: Ashgate, pp. 99-111. https://www.routledge.com/Literature-and-Theology-New-Interdisciplinary-Spaces/Walton/p/book/9781409400110
Monograph
Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion and Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry
Darroch F (2009) Memory and Myth: Postcolonial Religion and Contemporary Guyanese Fiction and Poetry. Cross/Cultures, 103. Amsterdam: Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789042029262
Book Review
Review: The Second Sex. By Simone de Beauvoir.
Darroch F (2008) Review: The Second Sex. By Simone de Beauvoir.. Literature and Theology, 22 (3), pp. 368-371. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn030
Article
Fitzgerald T, Hass AW, Jasper A, Darroch F, Roberts R, King R & Carette J (2007) A case of misrepresentation: James L. Cox and Steven J. Sutcliffe, "Religious studies in Scotland: A persistent tension with divinity" [Religion 36 (1) (March 2006) 1e28]: A response from Religion at Stirling. Religion, 37 (4), pp. 333-337.
Article
Darroch F (2003) Shifting Boundaries: A Postcolonial Interrogation of the Category 'Religion' and its Application to Erna Brodber's "Louisiana". Moving Worlds, 3 (2), pp. 84-98. Masquerade: Caribbean Issue. http://www.movingworlds.net/volumes/3/masquerade-caribbean-issue/
Nominated for RATE awards 2019: Best tutor and Excellence in Teaching in the Arts and Humanities.
Autism Awareness training certificate
I have a particular interest in Autism Spectrum Conditions, and ensuring inclusivity, for those students with ASC, within Higher Education classrooms.