Department of English

Courses
ENG 221 British Literature II
ENG 303 Studies in World Literature
ENG 385 Writing and Revolution in the Americas
ENG 495 Language and Literature (Capstone)
ENG 616 World Literature in English

Research Interests
Contemporary cross-Mediterranean migrations in literature, photography, and film
Contemporary South African literature in English
Colonialism and Postcoloniality in Gibraltar

Select Publications
"Glimpses of Morocco in the Midwest: the Work of Yto Barrada at Chicago's Renaissance Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Photography." (2012) Available here. 

"Teaching Moroccan Literature of Migration. Chapter in Teaching Literature from Todays Middle East. Ed. Allen Webb. New York: Routledge, 2011.

"Dulcie Longs for the Comfort of the Quotidian: The Place of Everyday Life in Zoe Wicombs David's Story." Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 23.2 (2011): 127-36.

"'Dis poem vex bout apartheid': Representations of South Africa in West Indian Poetry." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, July, 44 (2009): 107-122

"Ingrid de Kok." Essay on the South African poet in A Companion to 20th Century British Poetry. New York: Facts on File. 2008. "Practicing poetry in an interregnum: poets in post-liberation South Africa." Winter 2006. Available at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev

"Excursions into Everyday Life" Postmodern Culture 14.3 (2004). Available at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/toc/pmc14.3.html "Of Border-Crossing Gnoseology and Other Post-Epistemologies" The New Centennial Review 1:3 (2001): 325-343.

"From Fortress Colony to Finance Center: Nation-Making in Gibraltar." The Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism 28:1-2. (2001): 9-25.

"Colonial Relic: Gibraltar in the Age of Decolonization. Grand Valley Review. 21 (2000): 4-26.

"Train-congregants and Train-friends: Representations of Railway Culture and Everyday Forms of Resistance in Two South African Texts. Alternation: Journal of the Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages. 3.2. (1996): 102-129.

Education
B.A., Polytechnic of Central London
M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas