Research

Postcolonial/Critical Race Theory

This cluster explores literature and culture in relation to empire, capitalist imperialism, and decolonisation.

Staff

Publications

2025

Campbell, A., Diamanti, J. (2025) Supply chain criticism: seam, interval, hold. Social Science Information, 64, pp. 508-527. (doi: 10.1177/05390184251403362)

Ivry, H. (2025) Listening to infrastructure: acoustic circulation and Black resistance. Errant Bodies Press

Willie, M. S. (2025) Matrilineal inheritance. Caribbean Writer, 39,

Willie, M. S. (2025) Hostage. sx salon, 50,

Friedman, G., Ivry, H., Stilley, H. (2025) “Introduction: Insurgent infrastructures and infrastructures of insurgency” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 66, pp. 197-204. (doi: 10.1080/00111619.2024.2427035)

Ivry, H. (2025) Forms of death and the death of form in contemporary Black fiction. Studies in the Novel, 57, pp. 102-118. (doi: 10.1353/sdn.2025.a952393)

Leask, N. (2025) ‘Such blessing is there in perfect liberty’: Coleridge’s ‘wild journey’ in Scotland, 1803. Coleridge Bulletin,

2024

Ivry, H., Karpinski, M. (2024) Alien rhythms: sounding black futures from the ocean floor. Palgrave Macmillan

Eklund, H., Park, J., Sarkar, D., Thompson, A. (2024) Becoming undisciplined: on pathways to environmental and racial justice in early modern studies. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 139, pp. 791-805. (doi: 10.1632/S0030812924000683)

Park, J. (2024) Artisans of the skin: Recipe studies and race-making in Shakespearean skincrafts. Bloomsbury Publishing

Ivry, H. (2024) How to listen otherwise: Black sounds, Black ecologies. English Language Notes, 62, pp. 13-29. (doi: 10.1215/00138282-11096323)

Ivry, H. (2024) Insurgency, history, and infrastructure in Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift and Imbole Mbue's How Beautiful We Were. Contemporary Literature, 64, pp. 149-181. (doi: 10.3368/cl.64.2.149)

(2024) Romanticism, travel and the Celtic languages. Studies in Romanticism,

Willie, M. S. (2024) Blue shoes. sx salon, 45,

Park, J. (2024) Shakespeare, race, and science: the study of nature and/as the making of race. Oxford University Press

Constantine, M.-A., Leask, N. (2024) Introduction: Romanticism, travel, and the Celtic languages. Studies in Romanticism, 63, pp. 97-115. (doi: 10.1353/srm.2024.a931777)

Leask, N., Ó Muircheartaigh, P. (2024) ‘Travelling Gaels’: Coloniality and dislocation in the Gaelic Atlantic. Studies in Romanticism, 63, pp. 231-253. (doi: 10.1353/srm.2024.a931783)

2023

Leask, N. (2023) Decolonizing Romantic Studies. Cambridge University Press

Park, J. (2023) On Shakespeare’s legacy, critical race, and collective futures. Shakespeare Quarterly, 74, pp. 264-280. (doi: 10.1093/sq/quad029)

Campbell, A., Carter, F. (2023) Saboteurial poetics: blockades, machine-breaking, & infrastructure from below. Routledge

Ivry, H. (2023) Ecologies from the cargo: Zora Neale Hurston and the long Anthropocene. Modern Fiction Studies, 69, pp. 444-465. (doi: 10.1353/mfs.2023.a905745)

Willie, M. S. (2023) A genealogy of the recognition of blackness in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and Foreigners: Three English Lives. Brill

Ivry, H. (2023) Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis. Edinburgh University Press

Ivry, H., Karpinski, M. (2023) Blackness after the end of the world: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s dub ecologies. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, 30, pp. 77-101. (doi: 10.1093/isle/isaa174)

Leask, N. (2023) Indo-Persia’s “Alter-Europe” Eighteenth Century, 64, pp. 327-331. (doi: 10.1353/ecy.2023.a950267)

Leask, N. (2023) Water. Romanticism on the Net, 80-81,

2021

Willie, M. S. (2021) Journey to Zion. Lolwe, 4,

Ivry, H. (2021) ‘Improbable metaphor’: Jesmyn Ward’s asymmetrical Anthropocene. European Review, 29, pp. 383-396. (doi: 10.1017/S1062798720000708)

Willie, M. S. (2021) Musing history. Caribbean Writer, 35,

Ivry, H. (2021) Writing in the “second person plural”: Ben Lerner, ambient esthetics, and problems of scale. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 62, pp. 123-136. (doi: 10.1080/00111619.2020.1787321)

(2021) Old Ways New Roads: Travels in Scotland 1720-1830.

Leask, N. (2021) 'Lost in Words': Macpherson's Ossian, translation, and ballad collection in the eighteenth-century Scottish Gàidhealtachd. inTRAlinea Special Issue: Space in Translation,

Ivry, H. (2021) The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King. University of Toronto Quarterly, 90, pp. 406-408. (doi: 10.3138/utq.90.3.hr.18)

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Postcolonial/Critical Race Theory brings together scholars and experts in the areas of empire, colonial, and postcolonial studies. Researchers in this cluster are interested in the questions of how might the contemporary issues of language, culture, science, race, slavery, gender, nation, migration, resource extraction, and climate crisis, among others, be shaped by the histories and historical continuities of neo/colonialism and capitalist imperialism. Through studying literary and non-literary texts, we explore the links between empire, history, and culture and interrogate possibilities and pedagogies involved in decolonising societies and thought-processes.

We will meet on a regular basis to discuss work, host work-in-progress, offer feedback on writing, and invite speakers and public bodies from outside the university. The cluster is specifically keen on developing collaborations in research, teaching, and grant applications from within the school as well as between schools and to that end will host regular conferences/symposia.