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Ian Baucom, Director, Institute for Critical US Studies

Contact Info:
Office Location: 127 Franklin Center
Office Phone: 919-681-7608, 919-684-6820
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Office Hours:

2 - 4 PM TUES
Education:
  • Ph.D., Yale University, 1995
  • M.Phil., Yale University, 1993
  • M.A., Yale University, 1991
  • B.A., Wake Forest University, 1988
Specialties:

British Literature
Postcolonial Literature
Modern to Contemporary
Novels
Research Interests: 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), (forthcoming, Duke University Press), essays on colonial and postmodern nostalgia, Irish Literature, theories of nationhood, postimperial melancholy, the globalization of literary study and other subjects in Research in African Literature, Transition, and Modern Fiction Studies, PMLA, and other Journals. He has edited special editions of the on Atlantic Studies and Romanticism, and co-edited a forthcoming volume on Black British Art.

Areas of Interest:

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

Current Ph.D. Students

  • Casey Jarrin
  • Jaya Kasibhatla
  • Genevieve Abravanel
  • Stephane Robolin
  • Christian T. Miano
  • Christian Campbell
  • Julie Kim
  • Simon Hay
  • Pramod Mishra
  • Gregory Dobbins
  • Susan Brooks
Recent Publications (More 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 .
  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 .
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