Lyn Innes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Catherine Lynette Innes 1940 (age 83–84) Australia |
| Other names | C. L. Innes |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney; Cornell University |
| Occupation(s) | Academic and author |
| Organisation(s) | University of Kent, Canterbury |
| Notable work | The Last Prince of Bengal: A Family's Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback (2021) |
| Spouse | Martin Scofield |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Mansur Ali Khan (great-grandfather) |
Lyn Innes (born 1940)[1] is an Australian-born British academic and author, who is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her interest is in studies of cultural nationalism, with her work focusing on Irish, African, African-American and Caribbean literatures, in which field she has been a scholar of note for more than five decades.[2] As a great-granddaughter of the last Nawab of Bengal, Mansur Ali Khan, Innes is the author of a family memoir entitled The Last Prince of Bengal: A Family's Journey from an Indian Palace to the Australian Outback (2021).
- ^ Booker, M. Keith (2003). "Innes, C(atherine) L(ynette)". In Booker, M. Keith (ed.). The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-3-8255-0021-4. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
- ^ "People". Wasafiri. Retrieved 9 April 2023.