Research Interests for Ian Baucom

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.

Areas of Interest:

20th Century British Literature & Postcolonial Studies
Black Atlantic Literature & Culture

Recent Publications

1. ‘Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon’: Slavery and Finance Capital, in in Victorian Investments (Forthcoming, Bloomington: Indiana University Press), edited by Cannon Schmitt (2008)
2. I. Baucom, The Disasters of War: On Inimical Life, Polygraph, vol. 18 (2006)
3. I. Baucom, Township Modernism (Reprint of chapter originally published in Geodmodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity, in Beyond the Black Atlantic: Relocating Modernization and Technology, edited by Walter Goebel and Saksia Schabo (2006), Routledge, London and New York
4. Township Modernism, in Geo-Modernisms, edited by Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel (2005), Under Review, University of Indiana Press
5. I. Baucom, D. Bailey, S. Boyce, Shades of Black, in Changing States: Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation (2004), Institute for International Visual Art, London