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Post-colonial literature, library research guide, cultural context, call numbers to browse.

Browse these call numbers for resources related to post-colonial literatures.

Browsing the shelves can help you identify existing research and relevant resources.

PK - Indo-Iranian philology and literature

• PK 2901 - PK 5474 Indo-Aryan literature
• PK 5401 - PK 5471 Modern Indo-Aryan literature

PL - Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania

• PL 8009.5 - PL 8014 African languages and literature

PR - English Literature

• PR 8309 - PR 9680 English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
• PR 9080  Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism
• PR 9440 Sri Lankan literature (English)

Subject Headings

Subject headings are "controlled vocabulary" used to organize books and journal articles into pre-defined themes or subjects. They provide an alternative to keyword searching.

Find a book's subject headings by clicking on the Details tab in Search It.

Relevant subject headings in Search It:

• Commonwealth literature (English) History and crticism Works that discuss materials written in countries that were formerly territories of the British Empires.
• Imperialism in literature Works that discuss or exhibit imperialism in literature.
• Postcolonialism in literature Works that discuss or exhibit postcolonialism in literature

This page provides guidance specifically related to post-colonial literature. Visit the English research guide , also linked from this guide's home page, for additional resources.

This guide, and many of the resources described within, presents three spellings for the course topic:

• post-colonialism
• postcolonialism
• post colonialism

Keep these spelling variations in mind when searching for materials.

Other language variations to learn are the colonial and postcolonial names for the countries or cities that are featured in the work being studied. (Yes, Wikipedia can help with that.)

Want to even more information about research materials for post-colonial literature?

These journals are a sampling of those that focus on post-colonial literatures. Follow the links to browse issues. If the full text of an article is not available online or on the shelf, request a copy through Interlibrary Loan .

The guide provided above, Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English , includes information about additional journals.

Because the full text of all of these journals is not available online, use databases like MLA and Google Scholar to conduct a more thorough search (see the Databases box below.)

• Journal of Commonwealth literature "The Journal of Commonwealth Literature is internationally recognized as the leading critical and bibliographic forum in the field of Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures."
• Callaloo Focuses on literatures and cultures of the African diaspora.
• Postcolonial Studies An interdisciplinary journal of postcolonial studies, including literature, politics, and economics.
• Postcolonial Text Official publication of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
• The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory Published annually, the journal "provides a narrative bibliography of published work, recording significant debates and issues of interest across a broad range of research in the humanities and social sciences." Every year includes an article reviewing works in postcolonial theory.

Databases such as MLA and Google Scholar will allow you to search and find at least the citations of articles. Note that these databases tend to focus on journals typically read and cited in European and North American scholarly venues.

• MLA (Modern Language Association) International Bibliography Publication Dates Covered: 1926 - present Paid for by K-State Libraries This is the largest and most comprehensive database for literary criticism in all languages. Also covers folklore, linguistics, and film studies. Includes journal and book articles, books, and dissertations. Does not index book reviews in literary journals.
• Literature Resource Center Paid for by K-State Libraries Provides researchers with unbounding literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented through up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras. Use this resource to analyze authors and works throughout time.
• Google Scholar Free Resource Google Scholar is a useful tool for searching through a very broad scope of articles; however, be aware that they aren’t actually all “scholarly.” Look for the text “Get It @ KSU” instead of the usual “Get It” button to search for the full text of articles that don’t have an included PDF. It is sometimes found under the “more” link below the record.

Scholars in Africa and India are working to increase access to their scholarship through websites such as the ones listed below.

(If you are aware of similar sites in other former Commonwealth countries, please let me know.)

• African Journals Online (AJOL) AJOL's goal is, "that African-origin research output is available to Africans and to the rest of the world." Registration is free, but does not guarantee access to full text of articles. Use Interlibrary Loan.
• National Digital Library of India - Literature and Rhetoric According to the site, a pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. While we may not be able to access the full text in the U.S., it's informative to see what research is being done in India.
• Shodhganga A repository of Indian electronic theses and dissertations.
• AfricaBib "AfricaBib is a collection of Africana social science titles, presented in one easily accessible location on the internet. It is the culmination of over forty years of Africana research. "

Understand more about cultural and historical events framing the work you are studying.

Secondary Sources

These databases provide academic articles that will primarily serve as secondary sources.

• America: History & Life Publication Dates Covered: 1964 - present Simultaneous users: 6 Paid for by K-State Libraries Indexes and abstracts for approximately 1,800 journals in the field of United States and Canadian history. Full-text coverage for more than 280 journals and more than 80 books. Contains citations and links to book and media reviews. Can search by time period.
• JSTOR Paid for by K-State Libraries A full-text collection of more than 550 core journals ranging from history to business to literature to science and mathematics. Coverage begins with the first issue of a title, but the most recent three to five years of each title are usually not available. The full article text is searchable.

Primary Sources - Databases

These databases will provide primary sources (voices). Be sure to consider what perspective or bias may be present.

• Center for Research Libraries (CRL) The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) supports original research and inspired teaching by preserving and making available a wealth of rare and uncommon primary source materials from all world regions. CRL works with specialists and experts at major research universities to identify and preserve unique and uncommon documentation and evidence.
• U.K. Parliamentary Papers Publication Dates Covered: 1688-2014 Paid for by K-State Libraries The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCCP) includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. HCPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing. K-State provides access to the following modules: 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century (2000-2014), and the Hansard (1803-2005).
• Internet Archive: eBooks and Texts Publication Dates Covered: mostly pre-1923 Free Resource Browse an international collection of books, articles, pamphlets, and other documents contributed by governments, libraries, and other organizations. It includes many of the most popular works of literature and scholarship as well as a host of lesser-known gems. Each of its items can be viewed, downloaded, and printed for free.
• Times Digital Archive Publication Dates Covered: 1785-2019 Paid for by K-State Libraries The complete issues of more than two hundred years of The Times of London are available for keyword searching by users, including articles, advertisements, and illustrations. Coverage of specific events and trends can be reviewed, providing a contemporary view to modern researchers.

Primary Sources - Archives and Collections

Search for archives, papers, photographs, film, and other primary sources that will provide the voice of someone who witnessed or experienced an event related to your work. These collections may be freely available on the internet.

Below are samples of the types of primary sources you might find.

• British Pathe Newsreel footage from British Pathe, dating between 1896 to 1976.
• The Dawn English language newspaper for Pakistan.
• Indian Memory Project Indian Memory Project is "an online, curated, visual and narrative based archive that traces a history and identities of the Indian Subcontinent, via photographs and letters found in personal archives. " This link opens to the timeline, which can be scanned for photos and posts.
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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies

Graham Huggan is Chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds (UK). His publications include The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins (2001), Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism (2007), and most recently, with Helen Tiffin, Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2010).

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The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies is a major, fully up-to-date reference work, involving more than thirty worldwide contributors, which aims to provide nothing less than a blueprint for the future of its field. It is coherently organized into five cross-referenced parts, ‘The Imperial Past’, ‘The Colonial Present’, ‘Theory and Practice’, ‘Across the Disciplines’, and ‘Across the World’. Taken together, its essays, which are written by leading scholars in the field, reflect the multidisciplinary nature of postcolonial studies while confirming its continuing relevance to the study of both the colonial past—in its multiple manifestations—and the contemporary globalized world.

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UCLA | Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies

Postcolonial theory has transformed literary studies in the past three decades. By foregrounding how colonialism has radically altered the globe, this critical lens has provided flexible methodologies for engaging the literary production of empire, colonial and anti-colonial discourse, and the literature of current and former colonies in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Americas, and Pacific Islands. By turning to topics such as decolonization, migration, language, knowledge production, and representation, postcolonial studies approaches the study of literature in ways that intersect with other fields such as critical race theory and diaspora, feminist, indigenous, transnational, and transoceanic studies.

Currently, UCLA has over twenty full-time faculty working in the field of postcolonial theory and literary studies in the Departments of Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, French and Francophone Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese. This is one of the largest concentrations of postcolonial scholars at any university in the United States and perhaps beyond. This website provides research profiles of each faculty member, a link to the quarterly schedule for our Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies, and information on how to join our Postcolonial Studies Email list. We are currently developing a Postcolonial Certificate for UCLA graduate students and will post more information on that in the future.

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The study of postcolonial or international literatures in English has been carried out within the Faculty of English at Oxford since the early 1990s. World literature and postcolonial literary studies now forms a leading research area in the Faculty, which was consolidated in 2013 with the establishment of the MSt in World literature in English. We have a distinguished record in particular in postcolonial theory, global history at the time of empire, postcolonial book history, and in South Asian and southern African literatures in English. At any one time around 18 doctoral students on average research in the area, on topics ranging from South East Asian literature through to Caribbean aesthetics.

Started by Professor Robert J. C. Young in the 1990s, the renamed "Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminars" take place at Wadham College. Convened by Professors Boehmer and Mukherjee, the seminar is a hub for postcolonial scholars and researchers across the Humanities, extending from MSt students through to senior researchers. The seminars have long fostered some of the objectives that faculties and divisions are now setting as targets, namely: the increased visibility of postcolonial and critical race studies scholarship; the increased visibility of Black and POC scholars, authors, teachers; ongoing critical inquiry on the role of the Western university (and our own humanities and social sciences subjects) in perpetuating or combating Eurocentrism, white supremacy and privilege; ongoing interrogation of historical and structural inequalities and the importance of literary and historical study in this inquiry; and the colonial centre-periphery divide that structures compulsory and elective work in a given discipline.

In recent years the seminar has featured papers by Emily Apter, Pheng Cheah, Anna Bernard, Ato Quayson, Abdulrazak Gurnah, David Palumbo-Liu, Tayeb Salih and Joseph Slaughter, and has also hosted a range of lectures and readings by eminent postcolonial and international writers, including J.M. Coetzee (in 2009 and 2014), Tsitsi Dangarembga, Kamila Shamsie and Hisham Matar.

The Faculty has hosted several successful research projects in the world literature area, including the Leverhulme-funded Planned Violence: Postcolonial Cities and Literature international network project (2014-16), and Postcolonial Text, World Form (Fell-funded), a research project led by Professor Elleke Boehmer which launched in December 2016, and now forms the hub of the flagship Writers Make Worlds website exploring questions of reading Black and Asian British writing today. Supported by an AHRC Leadership Fellows grant, Professor Ankhi Mukherjee's research project, The Psychic Life of the Poor (2017-2018), hosted graduate workshops titled "Humanitarian Fictions" and an international conference, "Global Hungers," keynoted by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Professor Leela Gandhi. Professor Elleke Boehmer convenes the Southern Lives  research project (2020-21), funded by a British Academy Small Grant, which explores life-writing as a tool for understanding Global South experience. 

Oxford offers exceptional resources for anyone interested in doing substantial research into the history of colonialism and its postcolonial and global aftermaths. It is home to the second largest living archive in the United Kingdom, the Bodleian Library and its many affiliates, including the Centre for the Study of the Book. With Oxford University Press, Pearson Education, Macmillan, Wiley-Blackwell, the African Books Collective and Oneworld all based in the city, Oxford is also one of the major centres of the contemporary Anglophone publishing world.

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UPDATED: A four-year PhD position in postcolonial literary studies and genre theory

Vacancy for Academic Staff at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Department: linguistics and literary studies, research centre: centre for literary and intermedial crossings.

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Faculty of Languages and Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, is looking for a four-year full-time PhD researcher in the fields of postcolonial literary studies and genre theory as part of an FWO-funded research project that aims to understand the political, cultural, and aesthetic dynamics of genre evolution today in and through the Black British literary field.

View the PDF file of the vacancy .

1 – The project

The PhD researcher will be embedded in the FWO junior fundamental research project “ Self-Reflexivity and Generic Change in 21st-Century Black British Women’s Literature ” (G038921N). The project conceptualizes metafiction as a catalyst for genre development and explores how postmillennial self-reflexive fiction by British women of African and African-Caribbean descent broadens Black British literature’s subject matter, revitalizes existing genres through variation, hybridization, and mixing, and leads to the creation of new subgenres. Tracing this alternative self-reflexive tradition, the project will not just revise histories of Black British literature but also existing theories of metafiction, which have predominantly focussed on white male writers. A detailed description of the project is available upon request.

2 – Position description

We offer a four-year full-time PhD position (subject to annual positive evaluation). The successful candidate will be affiliated with VUB’s research centre CLIC – Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings ( https://clic.research.vub.be ) and will be supported by two supervisors at VUB as well as by three external senior advisors at universities in Belgium, Germany, and the UK. Within the overarching project, the PhD candidate is expected to develop and carry out his/her/their own line of research, leading to a PhD dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. dr. Janine Hauthal (VUB). He/she/they are expected to present at national and international workshops and conferences and to publish both single-authored and co-authored articles in peer-reviewed journals. The successful candidate will conduct two research stays abroad with the project’s senior advisors (in the UK and Germany). Further responsibilities include conference and workshop organization, assistance in public dissemination activities, and active membership of CLIC.

3 – Profile

• You hold a master’s degree in (literature in) English, comparative literature, literary studies, or postcolonial literary studies (or a comparable degree) or you will have obtained it by the start date of this position.
• You can demonstrate excellent study results. Previous academic experience (publications, presentations, student jobs etc.) will be considered an asset.
• You are an enthusiastic researcher, capable of conducting research both independently and in a team.
• You are well-versed in literary as well as cultural analysis, have a passion for theory-driven work and an interest in the nexus of race, gender, and genre.
• You act with attention to quality, integrity, and cooperation.
• You are willing to occasionally conduct research abroad (in the UK and Germany) and to communicate your research to both academic and lay audiences.
• You have near-native English-language skills (oral and written) at an academic level and good time management and planning skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
• You have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
• Additional skills and experience with website design and content management systems as well as with social media are a plus.
• We offer a four-year full-time doctoral position (requiring enrolment as a doctoral student at VUB), subject to an annual positive evaluation.
• The planned starting date is 1 March 2022, or as soon as possible after this date.
• Depending on age, professional experience, and family status, you will receive a salary in one of the grades defined by the Belgian government. The monthly salary (before tax) varies from € 2404.82 to € 2890.78 (EU staff) / € 2193.61 to € 2636.89 (non-EU staff). In addition, you are provided with an office space and work laptop, library access, social and health benefits, and free access to public transport for your commute to campus. Extra funding to attend international conferences, buy research literature and pay for academic memberships etc. will be available to you.
• The successful candidate will participate in the faculty’s doctoral training programme and will be offered various opportunities to advance his/her/their career.
• As an employee of the VUB, you will work in a dynamic, diverse, and multilingual environment. For this function, VUB’s Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus (Etterbeek) will serve as your home base. Our campus is a green oasis in the capital city of Flanders, Belgium, and Europe, and boasts an excellent restaurant and extensive sport facilities. It is within easy reach (twenty minutes by public transport) of the city centre of Brussels, with all its opportunities and possibilities. Childcare facilities are to be found within walking distance.
• For more information on what it is like to work at the VUB, go to www.vub.ac.be/en/jobs .

5 – Wish to apply?

• Applications should include (in one PDF file): (1) a cover/motivation letter, (2) your academic CV with details about your Bachelor and Master qualifications (including grades or marks) and your previous academic experience, (3) a short exposé on your previous experience and the relevance it may bear to the advertised position, (4) a writing sample (your MA thesis, a (published) paper/article), and (5) the names of two referees.
• Please send your application via e-mail to Prof. dr. Janine Hauthal ( [email protected] ); deadline: 15 January 2022 (midnight Brussels time).
• Shortlisted candidates will be notified by 18 January 2022 and interviewed in the week of 24 January 2022 on the Humanities Campus of Vrije Universiteit Brussels or online. Please indicate your availability in your cover letter.

If you have any questions about the research position or the overarching FWO project, please contact Prof. dr. Janine Hauthal at [email protected] .

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Home student fees (full-time) : £4,860 per year Home student fees (part-time) : £2,430 per year Overseas student fees (full-time) : £22,490 per year Overseas student fees (part-time) : £11,245 per year

Please note that fees go up each year.   See  research fees  for further details.

We normally require a 2.1 bachelor's degree (or its equivalent) plus a Masters degree in appropriate subject area plus one reference. In exceptional cases we may accept applicants who do not meet these criteria if they show evidence of a strong Masters degree and/or appropriate level of relevant work experience. International applicants should also see  Doctoral School English language requirements

Course overview

The SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) welcomes applications from MPhil/PhD students wishing to undertake research in the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

The Centre has developed its own MPhil training programme which will enable research students to be registered in the Centre rather than in specific regional Departments or those of other disciplines. The Centre places its emphasis on the acquisition of critical theoretical skills and in-depth regional, linguistic and cultural knowledge with specific reference to Asia, Africa and the Middle East, but also to literatures written in European languages.

Prospective research students will have the unique opportunity to work on an exceptionally wide range of topics, theoretical and critical, supervised according to the expertise of a wide range of academic staff across the Faculty and SOAS.

A research degree in Comparative Literature (Asia/Africa/the Near and Middle East), Cultural Studies (Asia/Africa/The Middle East) or Postcolonial Studies (Asia/Africa/The Near and Middle East) normally takes three years, or up to a maximum of four years should periods of fieldwork/research and material collection be required. Part-time registration is also possible.

Why Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS?

• SOAS is specialist in the studies of Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and South East Asia
• SOAS is ranked 1st in London in the Complete University Guide 2021 for Middle Eastern and African Studies, and 6th in the UK
• Ranked 8th in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2021 for South Asian Studies

In the first year, students prepare for research by following an MPhil training programme convened by the Chair of the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies. Students will also be strongly encouraged to attend the core theory courses in the three disciplines, the other elements being agreed between the student, the Research Tutor (a member of the CCLPS Steering Committee) and the supervisor(s). Optional elements may consist of specialist disciplinary, language or regional culture courses, attendance of which can be agreed between the student and the supervisory committee.

MPhil students are required to attend the CCLPS Weekly Research Training Seminar and a generic research methods course offered within the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, convened by the Associate Dean for Research. The generic research methods training includes courses offered by the Academic Development Directorate (ADD) and the SOAS Library .

Doctoral School website also offers information on research training across London higher education institutions.

MPhil/PhD students are in addition expected to attend regularly the Centre’s seminar series, lectures, conferences and the CCLPS Postgraduate Annual Conference which started in June 2012 and is annually organised by the CCLPS PhD community. All details of CCLPS events will be available on the CCLPS pages . Third and Final Year CCLPS PhD students are asked to present their research projects in the CCLPS seminars and lecture series as that constitute an important element of their professional training.

Upgrade procedure

MPhil students submit an upgrade chapter (of about 10,000-12,000 words excluding bibliography), typically including the following elements:

• research rationale and context of proposed research
• literature review
• main research questions
• theoretical and methodological framework & considerations
• proposed research methods
• rthical issues (where applicable)
• outlining structure of PhD dissertation
• schedule of research and writing
• bibliography

Adjustments to one or more of these sections, including additions or deletions where appropriate, are possible by prior arrangement between the students and lead supervisors.

This upgrade proposal is assessed by the student’s research committee, based on a 20-30 minute oral presentation, followed by a discussion, also open to other staff and student members of the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies. On successful completion of the upgrade chapter, students are formally upgraded to PhD and proceed to the second year. (If the assessors consider there to be shortcomings in the upgrade proposal, students will be asked to revise it to their satisfaction before the upgrade to PhD status can be confirmed.) Students are not normally permitted to proceed to the second year until the upgrade process has been completed.

Students studying part-time take the MPhil training seminar in the first year and write the upgrade paper in the second year. The length of time for field or research and material collection, and writing up, is adjusted accordingly.

Degrees are awarded by SOAS University of London and are subject to SOAS University of London regulations.

CCLPS weekly research training seminar

In addition to generic methods training, MPhil/PhD students in the CCLPS are required to attend a weekly Research Training Seminar in the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies as well as in interdisciplinary methods and methodologies in term one and two. The aim of the training programme is to provide a thorough grounding in theory, methods, regional, cultural, linguistic and any special disciplinary expertise that may be required for the research.

The focus of the CCLPS MPhil/PhD Research Training Seminar will be on the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies, and in relation to the literary, critical and cultural practices of Asian and African traditions. The programme of training will also be supported by regular CCLPS Lecture and seminar series, conferences and workshops and the CCLPS Annual Postgraduate Conference.

CCLPS training sessions

The CCLPS training sessions are designed to offer:

• analysis of and a grounding in theoretical premises and critical paradigms underlying the three disciplines and their intertwined trajectories and interdisciplinarity
• a critical exploration of European and non-European critical traditions
• a critical grounding in the crossing of Humanities and Social Sciences critical methods and methodologies
• practical analytic exercises and selective in-depth analysis of certain texts as well as cultural phenomena and institutions, particularly in relation to the field of Cultural Studies
• modes of engagement with critical scholarship and ways of constructing theoretical frames
• a critical grounding in the new theories on ‘World Literature'
• critical contexts in which students are able to identify and pursue figures, schools, theories they deem relevant to their work - the training sessions are not designed to offer general surveys
• exercises in the application of certain analytic tools and critical methods, particularly in relation to adopting a comparative method of study, a postcolonial approach to research and cultural studies strategic interdisciplinarity
• training in fieldwork and collection and analysis of data
• training in methods used for media and film studies
• training in practices of reading the corpus of the thesis or its primary material
• training in presentation, dissemination, communication of research and ways of using feedback on one’s project as students are asked to present on their 'literature review' in term 1 and on 'ways of reading their corpus' in terms 2
• the CCLPS Research Training Seminar also offers the opportunity for first year students to meet and greet their senior CCLPS PhD students and exchange views and  experiences of the CCLPS postgraduate community.

The CCLPS weekly Research Training Seminar aims at grounding our new MPhil/PhD students in various theory and practice based methodology so that the agency of non-European traditions may be identified and exercised, strengthened by the unique range of research activities and regional expertise offered at SOAS. This is also the envisioned path through which students may be able not only to place their work in a discipline, but also to plan future contributions in this discipline, while expanding the spheres of their respective fields.

Important notice

The information on the website reflects the intended programme structure against the given academic session. The modules are indicative options of the content students can expect and are/have been previously taught as part of these programmes. However, this information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability is subject to change.

Teaching and learning

Research will be guided throughout by a research committee of three core CCLPS members, consisting of one primary supervisor (core CCLPS Faculty of Languages and Cultures member) and two supporting supervisors in an advisory capacity (CCLPS core or SOAS members). Depending on the nature of the research joint supervision is sometimes recommended, under the direction of two supervisors.

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Recent graduates have been hired by:

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Postcolonial Studies

Staff supervise research in the following areas: African literature in English and in translation, Caribbean literature, African-American and Native American literatures, Australian literature, New Zealand and South Pacific literature since 1800, Indian and South-East Asian literature in English and in translation, middle-eastern literature and Mediterranean literature, postcolonial women writers, theory, and travel writing.

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• Duration MA 1 year full-time PhD 3 to 4 years full-time
• Start date MA: September PhD: September, January, May
• Location Canterbury

As a research student, you meet regularly with your supervisor, and have the opportunity to take part in informal reading groups and research seminars to which students, staff and visiting speakers contribute papers. You also benefit from a series of research skills seminars that run in the spring term, which gives you a chance to share the research expertise of staff and postdoctoral members of the department.

The University of Kent was one of the first universities to establish colonial and postcolonial studies in the UK and has continued to play a significant part in the development of the field with an incredible national and international reputation. The University is also home to the Centre for the Global Study of Empire , an interdisciplinary and multi-lingual centre that aims to promote research and public engagement in the areas of colonialism, post-colonialism, and imperial studies from across the world. Meaning the community you will be joining is at the very forefront of research in this area.

As a basis for advanced research, you must take the School and University research methods programmes.

About the School of English

The School of English has a strong international reputation and global perspective, apparent both in the background of its staff and in the diversity of our teaching and research interests.

Our expertise ranges from the medieval to the postmodern, including British, American and Irish literature, postcolonial writing, 18th-century studies, Shakespeare, early modern literature and culture, Victorian studies, modern poetry, critical theory and cultural history. The international standing of the School ensures that we have a lively, confident research culture, sustained by a vibrant, ambitious intellectual community. We also count a number of distinguished creative writers among our staff, and we actively explore crossovers between critical and creative writing in all our areas of teaching and research.

The Research Excellence Framework 2021 has produced very strong results for the School of English at Kent. With 100% of its research environment and 100% of its research impact judged to be ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. The  Times Higher Education  has ranked English at Kent in the UK top 20 in its subject league table, out of 92 universities. As scholars and creative practitioners, academic staff in the School of English are national and international leaders in their fields. The expert panel judged 93% of its research overall and just under 90% of its research outputs, as ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.

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Entry requirements, study support.

A first or second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent).

A first or upper-second class honours degree in a relevant subject (or equivalent) and, normally, a taught MA qualification.

All applicants are considered on an individual basis and additional qualifications, professional qualifications and relevant experience may also be taken into account when considering applications. 

Please see our International Student website for entry requirements by country  and other relevant information. Due to visa restrictions, students who require a student visa to study cannot study part-time unless undertaking a distance or blended-learning programme with no on-campus provision.

English language entry requirements

This course requires a Good level of English language, equivalent to B2 on CEFR.  

Details on how to meet this requirement can be found on our English Language requirements webpage . 

Examples:  

IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component 

PTE Academic 63 with a minimum of 59 in each sub-test 

A degree from a UK university 

A degree from a Majority English Speaking Country 

Need help with English?

Please note that if you are required to meet an English language condition, we offer a number of pre-sessional courses in English for Academic Purposes through Kent International Pathways .

Postgraduate research is a fantastic opportunity and significant investment in your future, enabling you to expand your knowledge, skills and career options – all while making a meaningful impact and contribution to an area you are passionate about.

At Kent, we also recognise the significant financial investment that comes with postgraduate study, and we offer a range of scholarships for our postgraduate researchers, to help keep your mind on your studies, and off your finances.

Scholarships can be broad, or specific to your situation, background or even country – so please do use our scholarships finder to discover the options available to you.

We also have research partnership funding with research councils and government schemes in specific areas of interest that can help you take your research to the next level with additional financial support.

Find out more on our fees and funding page and discover what option is right for you.

Postgraduate resources

The Templeman Library is well stocked with excellent research resources, as are Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library. There are a number of special collections: the John Crow Collection of Elizabethan and other early printed texts; the Reading/Raynor Collection of theatre history (over 7,000 texts or manuscripts); ECCO (Eighteenth-Century Collections Online); the Melville manuscripts relating to popular culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries; the Pettingell Collection (over 7,500 items) of 19th-century drama; the Eliot Collection; children’s literature; and popular literature. A gift from Mrs Valerie Eliot has increased the Library’s already extensive holdings in modern poetry. The British Library in London is also within easy reach.

Conferences and seminars

Our research centres organise many international conferences, symposia and workshops and establish international links for Kent students.

School of English postgraduate students are encouraged to organise and participate in a conference which takes place in the summer term. This provides students with the invaluable experience of presenting their work to their peers.

The School runs several series of seminars, lectures and readings throughout the academic year. Our weekly research seminars are organised collaboratively by staff and graduates in the School. Speakers range from our own postgraduate students, to members of staff, to distinguished lecturers who are at the forefront of contemporary research nationally and internationally.

The Centre for Creative Writing hosts a very popular and successful weekly reading series; guests have included poets Katherine Pierpoint, Tony Lopez, Christopher Reid and George Szirtes, and novelists Abdulrazak Gurnah, Ali Smith, Marina Warner and Will Self.

Dynamic publishing culture

Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. They also edit several periodicals including: Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities ; The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 600-1500 ; The Dickensian; Literature Compass ; Oxford Literary Review ; Theatre Notebook and Wasafiri .

Researcher Development Programme

Kent's Graduate School co-ordinates the Researcher Development Programme for research students, which includes workshops focused on research, specialist and transferable skills. The programme is mapped to the national Researcher Development Framework and covers a diverse range of topics, including subject-specific research skills, research management, personal effectiveness, communication skills, networking and teamworking, and career management skills.

Research in the School of English comes roughly under the following areas. However, there is often a degree of overlap between groups, and individual staff have interests that range more widely.

Eighteenth Century

The particular interests of the Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century converge around gender, class, nation, travel and empire, and the relationship between print and material culture. Staff in the Centre pursue cutting-edge approaches to the field and share a commitment to interdisciplinary methodologies.

The Centre regularly hosts visiting speakers as part of the School of English research seminar programme, and hosts day symposia, workshops and international conferences.

Nineteenth Century

The 19th-century research group's interests include literature and gender, journalism, representations of time and history, sublimity and Victorian poetry.

American Literature

Research in North American literature is conducted partly through the  Centre for American Studies , which also facilitates co-operation with modern US historians. Staff research interests include 20th-century American literature, especially poetry, Native American writing, modernism, and cultural history.

Creative Writing

The Centre for Creative Writing is the focus for most practice-based research in the School. Staff organise a thriving events series and run a research seminar for postgraduate students and staff to share ideas about fiction-writing. Established writers regularly come to read and discuss their work.

Medieval and Early Modern

The  Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies  has a distinctive brand of interdisciplinarity, strong links with local archives and archaeological trusts, and provides a vibrant forum for investigating the relationships between literary and non-literary modes of writing in its weekly research seminar.

Modern Poetry

The Centre for Modern Poetry is a leading centre for research and publication in its field, and participates in both critical and creative research. Staff regularly host visiting speakers and writers, participate in national and international research networks, and organise graduate research seminars and public poetry readings.

Postcolonial

The Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies has acquired an international reputation for excellence in research. It has an outstanding track record in publication, organises frequent international conferences, and regularly hosts leading postcolonial writers and critics. It also hosts a visiting writer from India every year in association with the Charles Wallace Trust.

The University of Kent was one of the first universities to establish postcolonial literary studies in the UK and has continued to play a significant part in the development of the field with an incredible national and international reputation. We would encourage students to get in touch directly with a supervisor to develop their project, and if they need help locating a potential supervisor to contact the Centre director.

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Kent’s world-class academics provide research students with excellent supervision. The academic staff in this school and their research interests are shown below. You are strongly encouraged to contact the school to discuss your proposed research and potential supervision prior to making an application. Please note, it is possible for students to be supervised by a member of academic staff from any of Kent’s schools, providing their expertise matches your research interests. Use our ‘ find a supervisor ’ search to search by staff member or keyword.

Full details of staff research interests can be found on the School's website .

Many career paths can benefit from the writing and analytical skills that you develop as a postgraduate student in the School of English. Our students have gone on to work in academia, journalism, broadcasting and media, publishing, writing and teaching; as well as more general areas such as banking, marketing analysis and project management.

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• Postcolonial Studies - PhD at Canterbury
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As teachers and scholars working in postcolonial studies, critical race studies, American multi-ethnic studies and minority literatures, we study the way that literary and cultural production is shaped by—and in turn shapes—discourses and practices around empire, anti-colonialism, indigeneity, diaspora, race and ethnicity. Our research and teaching follow multiple inquiries, including minority literature and human rights; histories and practices of anti-colonialism; Black poetics and environmental literature, Chicanx and Latinx literatures and movements; women of color feminism; decolonization and the Cold War; and more.

Our long-running Postcolonial, Race and Diaspora Studies Colloquium brings together faculty and graduate students across the New York City area for intellectual exchange in these fields. The colloquium strives to provide a forum for interested students from across English, Social and Cultural Analysis, Comparative Literature, French and other departments to present their work, interact with a range of peers and scholars, and foster conversations.

Faculty Research And Teaching Fields:

• Toral Gajarawala: Postcolonial and subaltern studies; aesthetics, theories of the novel; narrative theory, realisms, modernisms, contemporary Anglophone and vernacular fiction.
• Lenora Hanson: British and Italian Romantic poetry and prose; eighteenth and nineteenth-century life science and political economy; rhetoric and translation; materialism
• Isabel Hofmeyr: Postcolonial studies; African literature; oral literature; Gandhian studies; Postcolonial history of the book and print culture; Indian Ocean studies
• Elizabeth McHenry: African American literature and literary culture, Black print culture studies; African American intellectual history; archival studies; nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature
• Tomás Urayoán Noel: U.S. Latin@ literatures and cultures; poetry and poetics of the Americas; media and performance studies; the Caribbean and its diasporas; modernisms and avant-gardes; translation studies; multi-ethnic New York City; creative writing
• Crystal Parikh: Asian American literature and studies; Latinx/Chicanx literature and studies; feminist and critical race theory; human rights; postcolonial studies; twentieth-century and contemporary American literature
• Sonya Posmentier: African American and Caribbean literature; Poetry and poetics; Ecological and environmental theory
• Pacharee Sudhinaraset: Contemporary U.S. multiethnic literature and cultural studies; comparative racialization; women of color feminisms; gender and sexuality studies; visual culture; Asian American Literature
• Sonali Thakkar: Postcolonial literature and theory; anticolonial thought and politics; comparative racialization and histories of antiracism; human rights; Jewish studies/Holocaust studies; theories of diaspora; gender and sexuality studies
• Simon Trujillo:  Chicana/o and Latina/o studies and literature; US multi-ethnic literature; comparative ethnic studies in the Americas; Borderlands theories and methodologies
• Jini Kim Watson:  Postcolonial literature and theory; decolonization and the global Cold War; spatial and urban theory; questions of sovereignty and political modernity; Marxism and critical theory; Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies
• Robert JC Young:  Postcolonial literatures and cultures; the history of colonialism and anti-colonialism; cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries; literary and cultural theory; language and translation
• Saronik Bosu: Literature and economics; South Asian studies; intellectual history; postcolonial environmental and medical humanities
• Kathy Huot:  Asian American and (South)East Asian studies; Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diaspora Studies; Race and Gender Theory; Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and Biopolitics; Science/Speculative Fiction; Translation Theory
• Gabriella Johnson:  African American literature; Black feminist theory and criticism; prison abolition
• Yollotl Lopez:  20th/21st Century American ethnic literature; Latinx lit; undocumented immigrant narratives
• Anh Nguyen: Postcolonial studies; global Cold War; world literature; questions of (under)development and modernity
• Alexandria Ramos:  U.S. multiethnic literatures and social movements; US Latinx and Asian American studies; borders, migration, and diasporas; women of color feminisms; decolonial thought
• Rajgopal Saikumar:  Early twentieth century literatures; law and political thought; postcolonial studies; global modernism; race; ethics, South Asian intellectual history
• Ruby Wang : Twentieth- and twenty-first century Asian American and Asia-Pacific literature, film, and culture; postcolonial studies; the global Cold War; language and translation; memory and trauma studies

RELATED WORKING GROUPS

• Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium
• Politics of Empowerment
• Black Studies Working Group
• The Latinx Project
• CALAMEGS Working Group (Comparative Approaches to Literatures of Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South)
• South Asia at NYU
• NYU Native Studies Forum
• The Atlantic History Workshop at NYU

RECENT GRADUATE SEMINARS (in Postcolonial, Race, Diaspora Studies)

• ENGL-GA 2980 003 Intro to Advanced Literary Study: Language and Translation (Robert Young)
• Engl-GA. 2916.001 Latinx Studies and Indigenous Politics (Simón Trujillo)
• Engl-GA 2838.001 The American Literatures of Transnational Feminism (Crystal Parikh)
• Engl-GA 2839.001 19th Century African American (Elizabeth McHenry)
• Engl-GA 2900.001 New Directions in Postcolonial Studies (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan)
• Engl-GA 2917.001 Borders and Diasporas (Public Humanities course) (Simón Trujillo and T. Ura Noel)
• Engl-GA 2916.001 Cultures of the Cold War (Patrick Deer and Jini Kim Watson)
• Engl-GA 2902.001 Black Poetry and Poetics (Sonya Posmentier)
• Engl-GA 2916.001 Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Pacharee Sudhinaraset)
• Engl-GA 2955.001 Chatter, Mumbling, Cant and Jargon: Languages of the Underground (Lenora Hanson and Fred Moten)
• Engl-GA 2901.001, x-listed Comp. Lit.: Special Topics: Frantz Fanon (Mark Sanders)
• Engl-GA.1085.00, xlisted with Irish Studies: Black Irish Writing (John Waters)
• Engl.GA. 2839.001 Race and Cosmopolitanism in American Literature from James to Baldwin (Gene Jarrett)
• Engl.GA. 2902.001, xlisted with Comp Lit: Comparative Approaches to the Literatures of Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South (Mark Sanders)
• Engl-GA. 2917.001 Human Rights and Cultural Politics (Crystal Parikh)
• Engl-GA. 2917.002 Introduction to Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies (Simón Trujillo)
• Engl-GA. 2957.001 Global Marxisms (Jini Kim Watson)
• Engl-GA. 2900.001 Under Water (Isabel Hofmeyr)
• Engl-GA. 2901.001 Frantz Fanon and Decolonization (Robert Young)
• Engl-GA. 2902.001 African American Performance Cultures: Dialectics of Embodiment and Textuality (Doug Jones)
• Engl-GA. 2916.001 Feminist Urban Formations (Pacharee Sudinharaset)
• Engl.GA. 2917.001 Latin@ Poetry and the Translingual Americas (T. Ura Noel)

Recent Faculty Books

• Elizabeth McHenry,  To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship   (2021)
• Jini Kim Watson,  Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization  (2021)
• Simon Trujillo,  Land Uprising   (2020)
• Frantz Fanon, Jean Khalfa, Robert JC Young,  Alienation and Freedom  (2018)
• Crystal Parikh,  Writing Human Rights: The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color   (2017)
• Sonya Postmentier,  Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature   (2017)
• Urayoan Noel,  In Visible Moment: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam  (2014)
• Isabel Hofmeyr,  Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading   (2013)
• Toral Jatin Gajarawala,  Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste   (2012) 

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Resources on Postcolonialism

Phd reading list, postcolonialism: phd exams reading list, primary texts.

African Authors

Achebe, Chinua.  Things Fall  Apart .

Armah, Ayi Kwei.  The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born .

Ba, Mariama.  So Long a Letter .

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie..  Purple Hibiscus .

Coetzee, J. M.  Waiting for the Barbarians .

—. Disgrace .

Dangarembga, Tsitsi.  Nervous  Conditions: A Novel.

Djebar, Assia.  So Vast the Prison.

Emecheta, Buchi.  The Joys of Motherhood.

—.  Second Class Citizen.

Gordimer, Nadine.  The Burgher’s Daughter.

Head, Bessie.  A Question of Power.

Okri, Ben.  The Famished  Road .

Soyinka, Wole.  Death and the King’s Horseman.

Thiong’o, Ngugi wa.  Devil  on  the Cross .

Sembene, Ousman.  God’s Bits of Wood.

Nwapa, Flora.  Efuru.

Tutoula, Amos.  The Palm-wine Drinkard.

Aidoo, Ama Ata.  Our Sister Killjoy.

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau.   The Arrivants.

Cliff, Michelle.  Abeng.

—. No Telephone to Heaven

Conde, Maryse.  Crossing the Mangrove.

Danticat, Edwidge.  Breath, Eyes, Memory.

Hodge, Merle.  Crick Crack, Monkey.

Kincaid, Jamaica.  Lucy.

Lamming, George.  In the Castle of My Skin.

Lovelace, Earl.  The Wine of Astonishment.

—. The Dragon Can’t Dance

Naipaul, V.S.  A bend in the River.    

—. A House for Mr. Biswas

Rhys, Jean.  Wide Sargasso Sea.

Selvon, Sam.   Moses Ascending.

Edgell, Zee. Time and the River.

South Asian Authors (Including South Asian diaspora)

Anand, Mulk Raj.  Untouchable.

Desai, Anita.  Baumgartner’s Bombay.

Ghosh, Amitav.  The Shadow Lines.

Kureishi, Hanif.  My Beautiful Laundrette.

—. Buddha of Suburbia.

Lahiri, Jumpa.  The Namesake.

Mukherjee, Bharati.  Jasmine.

Mistry, Rohinton.  A Fine Balance.

Narayan, RK.  Waiting for the Mahatma.

Rao,  Raja .  Kanthapura.

Roy, Arundhati.  The God of Small Things.

Rushdie, Salman.  Midnight’s  Children .

—. The Satanic Verses

Sidwa, Baspi.  Cracking India.

Singh, Khushwant.  Train to Pakistan.

Tagore, Rabindranath.  The Home and the World.

Chughtai, Ismat.  The Crooked Line.

Hussain, Abdullah.  The Weary  Generations .

Hyder, Qurratulain.  River of Fire.

Middle Eastern Authors

Mahfouz, Naguib.  Children of the Alley.

Saadawi, Nawal El.  Woman At Point Zero.

Salih, Al-Tayyib.  Season of Migration to the North.

Alifa Rifaat. Distant View of the Minaret and Other Stories.

Latin American Authors

Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits.

Alvarez, Julia . In The Time of Butterflies.

Marquez, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Secondary Texts

Foucault ( Archeology  of Knowledge). Derrida (Of Grammatology), Roland  Bathes  (Mythologies), Delueze (Anti Oedipus); Parth Chatterjee (Nation and its Fragments), Dipesh Chkarabarty (Provincializing Europe). Jameson (Politcal Unconscious); Eagleton (After Theory); Marx (The Communist Manifesto and “ The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon ).

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities.

Bhabha, Homi K. Nation and Narration.

—. The Location of Culture

Cesaire,  Aime . Discourse on Colonialism .

Dirlik, Arif. “ The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism.”

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth.

—. Black Skin, White Mask

Studies in a Dying Colonialism

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. 

Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire.

James, CLR.. The Black Jacobins.

Jameson, Fredric. “Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism.”

Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/ Postcolonialism .

McClintock, Ann. “The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘Postcolonialism.”

—. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest

Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized.

Minh-ha, Trinh T. Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism. 

Mohanty,  Chandra . Feminism Without Border .

Mohanty, Russo and Torres, eds. Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism.

Nasta, Sushila ed. Motherlands: Black Women’s Writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South  Asia.

Thiong’o, Ngugi Wa. Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature.

Said, Edward. Orientalism .

—. Culture and Imperialism

Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

—. Other Asias

—. The Critique  of Postcolonial Reason

Spur, David. The Rhetoric of Empire.

Young, Robert JC. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction.

—. White Mythologies: Writing History and the West

You might also want to take a look at some of my postcolonial literature courses .

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Introducing Postcolonial Literature

I am Daniele Nunziata , a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Oxford. In my current research, and previously during my DPhil, I have been focusing primarily on literature which may be described as ‘postcolonial’. People outside this discipline often ask me what this is and how they might learn more about it. Like most literary movements, it can difficult to establish when postcolonialism first began, but it very generally refers to writing (including theory, poetry, and fiction) which speaks against, or came after (hence the prefix), colonialism. In many of the cases I consider in my research, this would include works which resist and/or came after the end of the British Empire’s rule over territories across the world.

For instance, some of my family come from, and live in, Cyprus. All of it was under the control of the British Empire until 1960, and literature which speaks to this history and what came after it might well be described as ‘postcolonial’. Similar claims can be made of, say, literature from South Asia in the years leading up to and following 1947; or from Nigeria which, like Cyprus, became independent in 1960. Postcolonialism also involves important reflections on life and politics after – as well as before – decolonisation.

It should be noted that this brief introduction is an extremely simple description of an enormous field which inevitably fails to contain the wide convolutions of colonial history. Some writers of fiction might produce texts which a publisher or scholar identifies as ‘postcolonial’, but the writer themself might not wish to use this term to describe their own composition. Be careful when using any general markers when classifying culture, particularly markers as powerful and substantial as ‘postcolonial’.

At this university, there are many useful resources to help gain greater insight into this field, including the postgraduate seminar series, Postcolonial Writing and Theory at Oxford. There are also multiple MSt programmes – including ‘World Literatures in English’ and ‘Comparative Literature and Critical Translation’ – which enable students to consider postcolonial and comparative ways of approaching literary and cultural studies. Research collectives like OCCT at St Anne’s College provide similar homes for these ways of approaching texts.

Below is a list of notable works – three pieces of theory or academic research, and three pieces of fiction – which are essential reading if you wish to consider learning more on the postcolonial discipline.

• Edward Said, Orientalism (1978). One of the most important works in helping to bring the field to life, Orientalism is a meticulous study of how writers in Britain and France have often written about countries across Asia and North Africa using a specific series of stereotypes which present a place they call the ‘Orient’ in a particular and pejorative way. These stereotypes were then used to justify British and French colonisation of the territories being described. Said was a Palestinian writer who spent much of his career as a professor at Columbia University.
• Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) . Fanon was a philosopher and psychiatrist, born in French-ruled Martinique, who worked in metropolitan France and Algeria. This written work is partly based on his time as a psychiatrist in colonised Algeria (1953 1957) and analyses the physiological impact of imperialism on the minds of individuals, including the role played by violence in these contexts.
• Elleke Boehmer, Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (2005). There are many works from the illustrious career of Oxford’s own Professor of World Literature, Elleke Boehmer, which could be included on this list. This specific monograph illustrates the necessity of evaluating questions of gender within postcolonialism and is an important piece of intersectional thinking and research. Boehmer is also an author of novels and short stories, including her most recent collection, To the Volcano (2019), which brings together the moving lives of multiple characters and families across the world who feel the pressures of inequality on the Global South. This brings us to…

It was nearly impossible to shortlist just three texts. Ultimately, I have picked three which were recognised in the 2019 list of 100 Novels that Shaped Our World and which also happen to have postcolonial themes.

• Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958). This is one of most well-known and beloved examples of ‘postcolonial’ fiction. Tracing the life of the tragic hero, Okonkwo, in the years leading up to, and following, the arrival of Christian missionaries to an Igbo village in what is now Nigeria, the novel shows how the protagonist and his family react to the sudden cultural changes in advance of British imperialism. It was followed by two sequels, no Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964), which continue to follow Okonkwo’s family through successive time periods.
• Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000). Winning the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, White Teeth gives a compelling insight into British life during the 1970s, largely following the experiences of two best friends, Samad and Archie, who met serving in World War II. This is an important capsule of life in the time period it depicts, exploring how culture and religion impact a person’s identity, including within the British-Bangladeshi community.
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). This novel moves between the narrative viewpoints of three characters who view the onset of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) and experience the horrors it unleashes. The reader is forced to confront this painful part of the history of Biafra, moving beyond single-sentence references in British or American history textbooks. If you are not already familiar with Adichie’s fiction, you may have read or heard extracts from her powerful TED talk which was published as an essay, We Should All Be Feminists (2014). To quote her, a feminist is “a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes”.

Dr Daniele Nunziata is a Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford. He completed his DPhil at St Hugh's College analysing postcolonial Cypriot literature. His other research concerns writing from the Middle East and Africa and has been published in  PMLA , the  Journal of Postcolonial Writing , and the  Studies in World Literature  book series. The primary themes of his creative writing include post/colonial history and diasporic cultural identities.

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Literary Research: Postcolonial Theory

What is postcolonial theory.

"A theoretical approach to analyzing the literature produced in countries that were once colonies, especially of European powers such as Britain, France, and Spain. Postcolonial theory also looks at the broader interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized by dealing with issues such as identity (including gender, race, and class), language, representation, and history. Because native languages and culture were replaced or superseded by European traditions in colonial societies, part of the postcolonialist project is reclamation. Acknowledging the effect of colonialism’s aftermath—its language, discourse, and cultural institutions—has led to an emphasis on hybridity, or the mingling of cultural signs and practices between colonizer and colonized."

Brief Overviews:

• Postcolonial Studies (Literary Theory Handbook)
• Postcolonial Theory (A Companion to Literary Theory)
• Postcolonial Theory (Oxford Research Encyclopedias)
• Race and Postcolonial Studies  (Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory)
• Race and Postcoloniality   (Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory)

Notable Scholars:

Homi K. Bhabha

• Bhabha, Homi K. “ Democracy De-realized .” Diogenes , vol. 50, no. 1, 2003, pp. 27–35.
• Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture . Routledge, 2004.
• Bhabha, Homi K. " The Other Question: Difference, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism ." In Barker, Francis, et al. Literature Politics & Theory . Routledge, 2002.

Aime Cesaire

• Césaire, Aimé, et al. The complete poetry of Aimé Césaire . Translated by Clayton Eshleman, Bilingual edition., Wesleyan University Press, 2017.
• Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism . Translated by Joan Pinkham, Monthly Review Press, 2000.
• Césaire, Aimé. Return to My Native Land. Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock, First Archipelago books edition., Archipelago Books, 2013.

Cyril Lionel Robert (CLR) James

• James, C. L. R. Beyond a Boundary : 50th Anniversary Edition. Duke University Press Books, 2013.
• James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert). The Black Jacobins : Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Second edition revised., Vintage Books, 1989.
• James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert). State Capitalism and World Revolution. [New ed.]., Charles H. Kerr, 1986.

George Lamming

• Lamming, George. In the Castle of My Skin. University of Michigan Press, 1991.
• Lamming, George. The George Lamming Reader : the Aesthetics of Decolonisation. Edited by Anthony Bogues, Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
• Lamming, George. The Pleasures of Exile. University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Edward W. Said

• Said, Edward W. Orientalism . Vintage Books, 1979.
• Said, Edward W., et al. The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966-2006 . Edited by Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew (Andrew N.) Rubin. Vintage Books, 2019.

Bill Schwarz

• Schwarz, Bill., et al. West Indian Intellectuals in Britain . 1st ed., Manchester University Press, 2004.
• Schwarz, Bill. The White Man’s World. 1st ed., Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Hall, Stuart, and Bill Schwarz. Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands. 1st ed., Duke University Press, 2017.

Leopold Senghor

• Senghor, Léopold S. “Qu’est-ce que la négritude?” Études françaises (Montreal), vol. 3, no. 1, 1967, pp. 3–20, https://doi.org/10.7202/036251ar.
• Senghor, Leopold S., and Melvin Dixon. “Elegy of Midnight.” Callaloo, vol. 24, no. 3, 2001, pp. 890–91, https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2001.0211.
• Senghor, Léopold S., and Melvin Dixon. “Letter to a Poet: To Aimé Césaire.” Callaloo, vol. 13, no. 1, 1990, pp. 14–15, https://doi.org/10.2307/2931591.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 

• Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present . Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, et al. The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak . Routledge, 1996.

Introductions & Anthologies

Also see other  recent eBooks discussing or using postcolonial theory in literature and scholar-recommended sources on postcolonial theory , Edward Said and Homi K. Bhabha via Oxford Bibliographies.

Definition from: " Postcolonial Theory. " Glossary of Poetic Terms. Poetry Foundation.(24 July 2023)

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Alrawashdeh, Abeer Aser. "A comparative study of selected Arab and South Asian colonial and postcolonial literature." Thesis, Swansea University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678267.

Tay, Eddie. "Not at home colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37898139.

Chow, Chi-shing Jeffrey, and 鄒志誠. "Postcoloniality in Hong Kong Literature: withspecial reference to Xi Xi's and Ye Si's Fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950541.

White, Laura. "Fictions of progress the eco-politics of temporal constructions in colonial and postcolonial novels /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

Boucher, Rémi. "A comparative post-colonial reading of Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler and Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ61717.pdf.

Elewa, Salah Ahmed. "In search of the other/self : colonial and postcolonial narratives and identities /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262130.

Chiu, Man-Yin, and 趙敏言. "Written orders: authority and crisis in colonial and postcolonial narratives." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29812902.

Demougin, Laure. "Identités et exotisme : représentations de soi et des autres dans la presse coloniale française au dix-neuvième siècle (1830 - 1880)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30078.

Chow, Chi-shing Jeffrey. "Postcoloniality in Hong Kong Literature : with special reference to Xi Xi's and Ye Si's Fiction /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13793779.

Hugo, Pieter Hendrik. "Between wilderness and number : on literature, colonialism and the will to power." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1947.

Tay, Eddie, and 鄭竹文. "Not at home: colonial and postcolonial Anglophone literatures of Singapore and Malaysia." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37898139.

Hills, Sehten Porshe. "Things Fall Apart & Heart of Darkness : Colonialism: Presenting the same universal ethic in two diametrically opposite ways." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-29327.

Finnegan, Jordana T. "Rewriting colonial histories race, gender, and landscape in new Western narrative /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3190516.

Still, Edward. "Representing the Algerian woman in Francophone literature of the late-colonial period : une dissymétrie s'évoque." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:15de2de5-ef05-4e08-8508-5da1da4d6973.

Hållen, Nicklas. "Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-46365.

Hamilton, Grant A. R. School of English UNSW. "Beyond representation : Coetzee, Deleuze, and the colonial subject." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22310.

Minster, Christopher W. "Literature and the other political history, origins, and the invention of the American in the early Spanish colonial period /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1149775390.

Minster, Christopher. "Literature and the other: political history, origins, and the invention of the American in the early Spanish colonial period." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1149775390.

Burns, Brian. "Hybridization of the Self, Colonial Discourse and the Deconstruction of Value Systems : A Postcolonial Literary Theory Perspective of Literature inculpating Colonialism." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35112.

Dalsfoist, Kayla. "Monsters From Within and Madness From Without: Manifestations of Identity Fragmentation as a Result of Postcolonialism in Filipino American Theatre." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/267.

Migoyan, Janet. "Sexual Domination: Colonial Guilt and Postcolonial Hatred in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184168.

Dias, Daise Lilian Fonseca. "A subversão das relações coloniais em o morro dos ventos uivantes: questões de gênero." Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba, 2011. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6161.

Foreman, Chelsea. "Speaking With Our Spirits : A Character Analysis of Eugene Achike in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65249.

VIEIRA, Maria Luiza. "Escrever, resistir: ficção ameríndia na perspectiva pós -colonial." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17603.

VIEIRA, Maria Luiza de Paula Lopes Fernandes. "Escrever, resistir: ficção ameríndia na perspectiva pós -colonial." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17580.

Homberg-Schramm, Jessica [Verfasser], Heinz [Gutachter] Antor, and Beate [Gutachter] Neumeier. "“Colonised by Wankers”. Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction / Jessica Homberg-Schramm ; Gutachter: Heinz Antor, Beate Neumeier." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1156461650/34.

Schultz, Andrew B. "Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu : Western rationality in the context of British colonialism and Western modernity /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2034.pdf.

Wattenbarger, Melanie. "Reading Postcolonialism and Postmodernism in Contemporary Indian Literature." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1351102017.

Zelenenkaya, Ekaterina. "The Projector Principle as a Means of Portraying the Cultural through the Personal in Olive Senior's Summer Lightning and Other Stories." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-102466.

Smit, Susanna Johanna. ""Placing" the farm novel : space and place in female identity formation in Olive Schreiner's The story of an African farm and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / S.J. Smit." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/873.

Hilborn, Ryan. "The forgotten Europe: Eastern Europe and postcolonialism." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104858.

Almquist, Karin Marie. "Works of mourning : Francophone women's postcolonial fictions of trauma and loss /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3153777.

Heeren, Travis Roy. "The Past Isn't Dead: Faulkner's Postcolonialism." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/557.

Sham, Hok-man Desmond. "Sinophone comparative literature problems, politics and possibilities /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42182530.

Sham, Hok-man Desmond, and 岑學敏. "Sinophone comparative literature: problems, politics and possibilities." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42182530.

Zouai, Manon M. "Entre les Murs et L'exclusion: L'echec du Systeme Educatif Francais." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/230.

Romanow, Rebecca Fine. "The postcolonial body in queer space and time /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2006. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3225329.

Acón-Chan, Lai Sai. "Nation formation and identity formulation processes in Hong Kong literary, cinematic, plastic and spatial texts amidst the uneasy confluence of history, culture, and imperialism /." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2008/l_aconchan_041408.pdf.

Mirze, Z. Esra. "Disorientation : "home" in postcolonial literature/." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2005. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/dissertations/fullcit/3209125.

Fitzmaurice, Andrew. "Classical rhetoric and the literature of discovery 1570-1630." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307941.

Naito, Jonathan Tadashi. "The postimperial imagination the emergence of a transnational literary space, from Samuel Beckett to Hanif Kureishi /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619104271&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Philippou, Eleni. "Speaking politically, not politics : an Adornian study of 'apolitical' twentieth-century fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fdebd470-81a8-4c1c-9ff5-e211e4bafe03.

Robinson, Sarah E. "The Other Sherlock Holmes| Postcolonialism in Victorian Holmes and 21st Century Sherlock." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808581.

This thesis examines Sherlock Holmes texts (1886–1927) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and their recreations in the television series Sherlock (2010) and Elementary (2012) through a postcolonial lens. Through an in-depth textual analysis of Doyle’s mysteries, my thesis will show that his stories were intended to be propaganda discouraging the British Empire from becoming tainted, ill, and dirty through immersing themselves in the “Orient” or the East. The ideal Imperial body, gender roles, and national landscape are feminized, covered in darkness, and infected when in contact for too long with the “Other” people of the East and their cultures. Sherlock Holmes cleanses society of the darkness, becoming a hero for the Empire and an example of the perfect British man created out of logic and British law. And yet, Sherlock Holmes’ very identity relies on the existence of the Other and the mystery he or she creates. The detective’s obsession with solving mysteries, drug addiction, depression, and the art of deduction demonstrate that, without the Other, Holmes has no identity. As the body politic, Holmes craves more mystery to unravel, examine, and know. Without it, he feels useless and dissatisfied with life. The satisfaction with pinpointing every detail, in order to solve a mystery continues today in all media versions. Bringing Sherlock Holmes to life for television and updating him to appeal to today's culture only make sense. Though society has the insight offered by postcolonial theory, evidence of an imperial mindset is still present in the most popular reproductions of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock and Elementary .

Maia, Claudio Silveira. "Pedras perdidas : o decadentismo e a visão pós-colonial de Gastão Cruls /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102361.

Signell, Andreas. "An argument for a postcolonial canon of literature for upper-secondary schools in multicultural Sweden : Course book analysis and didactic questions regarding the teaching of literature in the English subject." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-22388.

Gaeta, Jill M. "In the eye of the hurricane Antillean children's literature, postcoloniality, and the uneasy reimagining of the self /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

Tillis, Antonio Dwayne. "Manuel Zapata Olivella : from regionalism to postcolonialism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9988703.

Jönsson, Robert. "Literature for the Intercultural Classroom : Discussing Ethnocentric Issues Using The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-41525.

Dominant cultures exist in many different guises, yet may function almost invariably in symbiosis with double standards and discrimination. However, these acts are often only recognised by those being subjected to them, not by those practising the same. Selective concern and empathy depending on who the practitioners happen to be, as well as who the recipients of said acts are, actually helps to illustrate the precise definitions of these terms.

Temiz, Ayse Deniz. "Gens inconnus political and literary habitations of postcolonial border spaces /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.

Alrasheed, Khalid Mosleh. "The postcolonial Middle Ages a present past /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2065749111&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

PhD Program in English Language and Literature

The department enrolls an average of ten PhD students each year. Our small size allows us to offer a generous financial support package. We also offer a large and diverse graduate faculty with competence in a wide range of literary, theoretical and cultural fields. Each student chooses a special committee that works closely along side the student to design a course of study within the very broad framework established by the department. The program is extremely flexible in regard to course selection, the design of examinations and the election of minor subjects of concentration outside the department. English PhD students pursuing interdisciplinary research may include on their special committees faculty members from related fields such as comparative literature, medieval studies, Romance studies, German studies, history, classics, women’s studies, linguistics, theatre and performing arts, government, philosophy, and film and video studies.

The PhD candidate is normally expected to complete six or seven one-semester courses for credit in the first year of residence and a total of six or seven more in the second and third years. The program of any doctoral candidate’s formal and informal study, whatever his or her particular interests, should be comprehensive enough to ensure familiarity with:

• The authors and works that have been the most influential in determining the course of English, American, and related literatures
• The theory and criticism of literature, and the relations between literature and other disciplines
• Concerns and tools of literary and cultural history such as textual criticism, study of genre, source, and influence as well as wider issues of cultural production and historical and social contexts that bear on literature

Areas in which students may have major or minor concentrations include African-American literature, American literature to 1865, American literature after 1865, American studies (a joint program with the field of history), colonial and postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, dramatic literature, English poetry, the English Renaissance to 1660, lesbian, bisexual and gay literary studies, literary criticism and theory, the nineteenth century, Old and Middle English, prose fiction, the Restoration and the eighteenth century, the twentieth century, and women's literature.

By the time a doctoral candidate enters the fourth semester of graduate study, the special committee must decide whether he or she is qualified to proceed toward the PhD. Students are required to pass their Advancement to Candidacy Examination before their fourth year of study, prior to the dissertation.

PhD Program specifics can be viewed here: PhD Timeline PhD Procedural Guide

Special Committee

Every graduate student selects a special committee of faculty advisors who work intensively with the student in selecting courses and preparing and revising the dissertation. The committee is comprised of at least three Cornell faculty members: a chair, and typically two minor members usually from the English department, but very often representing an interdisciplinary field. The university system of special committees allows students to design their own courses of study within a broad framework established by the department, and it encourages a close working relationship between professors and students, promoting freedom and flexibility in the pursuit of the graduate degree. The special committee for each student guides and supervises all academic work and assesses progress in a series of meetings with the students.

At Cornell, teaching is considered an integral part of training in academia. The field requires a carefully supervised teaching experience of at least one year for every doctoral candidate as part of the program requirements. The Department of English, in conjunction with the  John S. Knight Institute for Writing  in the Disciplines, offers excellent training for beginning teachers and varied and interesting teaching in the university-wide First-Year Writing Program. The courses are writing-intensive and may fall under such general rubrics as “Portraits of the Self,” “American Literature and Culture,” “Shakespeare,” and “Cultural Studies,” among others. A graduate student may also serve as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate lecture course taught by a member of the Department of English faculty.

Language Requirements

Each student and special committee will decide what work in foreign language is most appropriate for a student’s graduate program and scholarly interests. Some students’ doctoral programs require extensive knowledge of a single foreign language and literature; others require reading ability in two or more foreign languages. A student may be asked to demonstrate competence in foreign languages by presenting the undergraduate record, taking additional courses in foreign languages and literature, or translating and discussing documents related to the student’s work. Students are also normally expected to provide evidence of having studied the English language through courses in Old English, the history of the English language, grammatical analysis or the application of linguistic study to metrics or to literary criticism. Several departments at Cornell offer pertinent courses in such subjects as descriptive linguistics, psycholinguistics and the philosophy of language.

All PhD degree candidates are guaranteed five years of funding (including a stipend , a full tuition fellowship and student health insurance):

• A first-year non-teaching fellowship
• Two years of teaching assistantships
• A fourth-year non-teaching fellowship for the dissertation writing year
• A fifth-year teaching assistantship
• Summer support for four years, including a first-year summer teaching assistantship, linked to a teachers’ training program at the Knight Institute. Summer residency in Ithaca is required.

Students have also successfully competed for Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship, Society for the Humanities Fellowships, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Shin Yong-Jin Graduate Fellowships, Provost’s Diversity Fellowships, fellowships in recognition of excellence in teaching, and grants from the Graduate School to help with the cost of travel to scholarly conferences and research collections.

Admission & Application Procedures

The application for Fall 2024 admission will open on September 15, 2023 and close at 11:59pm EST on December 1, 2023.

Our application process reflects the field’s commitment to considering the whole person and their potential to contribute to our scholarly community.  Applicants will be evaluated on the basis of academic preparation (e.g., performance in relevant courses, completion of substantive, independent research project). An applicant’s critical and creative potential will be considered: applicants should demonstrate interest in extensive research and writing and include a writing sample that reveals a capacity to argue persuasively, demonstrate the ability to synthesize a broad range of materials, as well as offer fresh insights into a problem or text. The committee will also consider whether an applicant demonstrates a commitment to inclusion, equity, and diversity and offers a substantive explanation for why study at Cornell is especially compelling (e.g., a discussion of faculty research and foci). Admissions committees will consider the entire application carefully, including statements and critical writing, as well as transcripts, letters of recommendation, and a resume/cv (if provided). Please view the requirements and procedures listed below, if you are interested in being considered for our PhD in English Language and Literature program.

Eligibility: Applicants must currently have, or expect to have, at least a BA or BS (or the equivalent) in any field before matriculation. International students, please verify degree equivalency here . Applicants are not required to meet a specified GPA minimum.

To Apply: All applications and supplemental materials must be submitted online through the Graduate School application system . While completing your application, you may save and edit your data. Once you click submit, your application will be closed for changes. Please proofread your materials carefully. Once you pay and click submit, you will not be able to make any changes or revisions.

Deadline: December 1st, 11:59pm EST.  This deadline is firm. No applications, additional materials, or revisions will be accepted after the deadline.

PhD Program Application Requirements Checklist

• Academic Statement of Purpose Please describe (within 1000 words) in detail the substantive research questions you are interested in pursuing during your graduate studies and why they are significant. Additionally, make sure to include information about any training or research experience that you believe has prepared you for our program. You should also identify specific faculty members whose research interests align with your own specific questions.  Note that the identification of faculty is important; you would be well advised to read selected faculty’s recent scholarship so that you can explain why you wish to study with them. Do not rely on the courses they teach.  Please refrain from contacting individual faculty prior to receiving an offer of admission.
• Personal Statement Please describe (within 1000 words) how your personal background and experiences influenced your decision to pursue a graduate degree and the research you wish to conduct.  Explain, for example the meaning and purpose of the PhD in the context of your personal history and future aspirations.  Please note that we will pay additional attention to candidates who identify substantial reasons to obtain a PhD beyond the pursuit of an academic position. Additionally, provide insight into your potential to contribute to a community of inclusion, belonging, and respect where scholars representing diverse backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, and experiences can learn (productively and positively) together.
• Critical Writing Sample Your academic writing sample must be between 3,000 and 7,500 words (12-30 pages), typed and double-spaced. We accept excerpts from longer works, or a combination of shorter works.
• Three Letters of Recommendation We require 3 letters of recommendation.  At the time of application, you will be allowed to enter up to 4 recommenders in the system.  Your application will be considered “Complete” when we have received at least 3 letters of recommendation.   Letters of recommendation are due December 1 . Please select three people who best know you and your work. Submitting additional letters will not enhance your application. In the recommendation section of the application, you must include the email address of each recommender. After you save the information (and before you pay/submit), the application system will automatically generate a recommendation request email to your recommender with instructions for submitting the letter electronically. If your letters are stored with a credential service such as Interfolio, please use their Online Application Delivery feature and input the email address assigned to your stored document, rather than that of your recommender’s. The electronic files will be attached to your application when they are received and will not require the letter of recommendation cover page.
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[Extended Deadline] Space and Time in Literature and the Arts

THE 25th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION

14-16 June 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

The English Department of the University of Bucharest invites proposals for

the Literature and Cultural Studies section of its 25th Annual International Conference:

Space and Time in Literature and the Arts

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

7-13 Pitar Moș St., Bucharest, Romania

Plenary Keynote Speakers:

Christopher Herzog, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg

Dragoș Ivana, University of Bucharest

John Thieme, University of East Anglia

Panel Stream Keynote Speakers:

Letitia Guran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nicolas Tredell,  University of Sussex

The subject matter of inexhaustible debates and, most importantly, disputes between philosophers and scholars from diverse backgrounds, space and time have been perceived, despite their infinite or limited dimension, as inextricably connected categories underlying the existence of matter and various processes unfolding in the universe, on the one hand, and the human existence in all its aspects, on the other. Whether normatively or symbolically represented by disciplines such as physics and mathematics or employed as (visual) narrative modes by literature and the arts, space and time have been scrutinized not only as conventional abstractions, but also as concepts that can be expanded or reconfigured. From Einstein’s theory of relativity, which stands solid proof of the latter perspective, to Paul Ricoeur’s view of the narrative set in a temporal frame, it has become evident today that both categories can no longer be interpreted separately, a perspective also endorsed by Mikhail Bakhtin’s “chronotope”, a concept referring to both spatial  and  temporal relationships that are expressed in literature.

Now more than ever, in a world in which science and technology have shrunk spatial distances and bridged temporal gaps, this topic could not come at a more timely moment. Our conference seeks to explore questions related, but not limited, to:

-      the history of human life in space and time, with particular emphasis on the impact of past, present and future events upon individuals;

-      space and time in relation to memory, trauma, personal and collective identity;

-      space and time as visible or hidden layers of meaning, belonging, dis-/re-location, exilic/nomadic/(post)colonial identities, etc.

-      philosophical interpretations of space and time – ontological and epistemological approaches;

-      the relationship between space/time and literature and the arts in various cultural and historical periods;

-      the relationship between science and literature: time machine and time travel tropes;

-      unshackling time-honoured dichotomies: the literary discourse/narrative as temporal vs. the visual narrative as spatial;

-      space and time as producers of meaning and identity;

-      allegorizing space and time (utopias, dystopias, eutopias, si-fi fiction and movies, painting, etc.)

-      heterotopias in literature;

-      urban humanities: new policies and practices for configuring the urban/rural dyad (post-metropolitan identity, gender, race, etc.);

-      the reenactment of sacred time (rituals, holy days, processions, etc.);

-      historical monuments and their role in preserving temporal and spatial identity; 

-      deconstructing linear time and normative space; or, alternative temporalities: the impact of the Anthropocene, climate change, exploitation of resources, eco-critical activism, inclusion of marginal groups, queering the space, etc.;

-      alternative cultural geographies and temporalities;

-      reconfigurations of space in architecture and their evolution in time;

-      recapturing and retrieving lost time and space;

-      reinventing the past in literature, cinematography or psychology;

-      resurrecting past cultures, civilisations and customs through archaeological and anthropological endeavours;

-      stage space and time: stage direction, scenography, light design, costume design and choreography;

-      time and space in the process of adaptation;

-      spatiality, trompe-l'oeil, and mirage in visual arts;

-      the global village - a shortcut in time and space;

-      private space vs. public space and their perception in time.

As of this year, our conference will also offer a number of thematic panel streams that will allow participants to group around their main fields of research and for which potential participants are asked to send their proposals  both  to the conference email address (listed below)  and  to the panel stream organizer:

Expectation, Nostalgia and Regret in Literary and Artistic Space/Time  (panel stream keynote speaker and organiser: Nicolas Tredell, University of Sussex,  [email protected] ).

Fluid Temporalities and Identities in Indian Ocean Spaces  (panel stream organiser: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, University of Bucharest,  [email protected] ).

Space and Time in Romanian / Romanian American Culture,  sponsored by the Romanian Studies Association of America (panel stream keynote speaker and organiser: Letiția Guran, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,  [email protected] ).

Time and Space in Early Modern Culture  (panel stream organiser:Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest,  [email protected] ).

Panel proposals on any other topics connected to the conference theme are welcome. Potential panel organizers are welcome to submit full panel proposals to the conference email listed below.

A round table organized by Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest ( [email protected] ) will be held  in memoriam  Professor emeritus Adrian Nicolescu. People who are interested in contributing are welcome to contact her directly.

Conference presentations should be in English and will be allocated 20 minutes each, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts of up to 200 words. Proposals should be in .doc or .docx format and should also include ( within the same document ): name and institutional affiliation, a short bio note (no more than 100 words), 5 keywords and the participant’s e-mail address. Proposals for full panels and round tables (to be organised by the participants) will also be considered. Please submit all proposals to our email address:  [email protected] .

Deadline for proposals:  20 April 2024 .

Conference fee:

Early bird: 100 Euro  (by 1 May)

Regular: 120 Euro  (after 1 May)

MA students and PhD Candidates: 50 Euro

Payment details will be communicated to the participants upon acceptance.

A selection of papers from the conference will be published in the  University of Bucharest Review  (ISSN 2069–8658) – listed on SCOPUS, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS and DOAJ. See the guidelines for contributors at  https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/ .

For further details and updates, see:  https://engleza.lls.unibuc.ro/conferinte/ . Enquiries regarding the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics section of the conference, which will be running at the same time, should be sent to  [email protected] .

We look forward to receiving proposals.

Organising and Selection Committee:

Dr Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru (coordinator)

Dr Alexandra Bacalu

Dr Alina Bottez

Dr Eliana Ionoaia

Dr Dragoș Manea

Dr Andrei Nae

Dr Andreea Paris-Popa

Dr Oana-Alis Zaharia

Advisory Board:

Dr Nazmi Ağıl (Koç University, Istanbul)

Prof Bart Eeckhout (University of Antwerp)

Prof José Manuel Estévez-Saá (University of A Coruña)

Dr Felicity Hand (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Prof Carl Lavery (University of Glasgow)

Prof Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware)

Dr Chris Louttit (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

Prof Domnica Rădulescu (Washington and Lee University, Lexington)

Prof Kerstin Shands (Södertörn University)

Prof Nicolas Tredell (University of Sussex)