Professor and Director of the Franklin Humanities Institute
Office Location: 203 Franklin Center
Office Phone: (919) 684-2741, (919) 668-0337
Email Address: ibaucom@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- Fridays 9:00am - 11:00am
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D., Yale University
- British Literature; Postcolonial Literature
- Ian Baucom works on twentieth century British Literature and Culture, postcolonial and cultural studies, and African and Black Atlantic literatures. He is the author of Out of Place: Englishness, Empire and the Locations of Identity (1999, Princeton University Press), Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History (2005, Duke University Press), and co-editor of Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain (2005, Duke University Press). He has edited special issues of the South Atlantic Quarterly on Atlantic Studies and Romanticism, and is currently working on a new book project tentatively entitled The Disasters of War: On Inimical Life.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- "‘Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon’: Slavery and Finance Capital." in Victorian Investments (Forthcoming, Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Ed. Cannon Schmitt, ed.. 2008.
- I. Baucom. "The Disasters of War: On Inimical Life." Polygraph 18 (2006)
- I. Baucom. "Township Modernism (Reprint of chapter originally published in Geodmodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity." Beyond the Black Atlantic: Relocating Modernization and Technology. Ed. Walter Goebel and Saksia Schabo. Routledge, 2006.
- "Township Modernism." Geo-Modernisms. Ed. Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel. Under Review, University of Indiana Press, 2005.
- I. Baucom, D. Bailey, S. Boyce. "Shades of Black." Changing States: Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation. Institute for International Visual Art, London, 2004.
