Chloe Statham Watkins

Chloe is a PhD Student based in Falmouth, Cornwall. Chloe's research contributes to the emerging field of transatlantic folklore and postcolonial memory, focusing on underexplored cultural connections between Cornwall and the Caribbean. Her project offers the first sustained comparative study of Cornish and Caribbean coastal folklore. By combining postcolonial theory with folklore studies, it demonstrates how tales of supernatural beings act as a cultural archive of colonial memory and reveal shared patterns of resistance, survival, and storytelling.

Alongside her research, Chloe has worked in the publishing sector for 10 years, where she specialises in creating educational resources for schools across the English-speaking Caribbean. She has also developed teaching and learning materials for schools and educational institutions across the world — including in the UK, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa — both in-house and as a freelancer for leading publishers such as Macmillan Education, Pearson, Collins Education, York Press and Sage.

Chloe holds a First Class B.A. in English from the University of Exeter (Penryn), where she presented her dissertation research "History is Fiction": Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety and Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters From Sweden as Fictionalised Histories of the Eighteenth Century at the University of York's international, interdisciplinary conference Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: the Eighteenth Century in the Present Day as part of the only panel of undergraduates. Chloe completed her M.A. in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies at the University of London (Birkbeck), where she was awarded the Aaron Simms scholarship for academic excellence.