Graham
Huggan Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures
email: g.d.m.huggan@leeds.ac.uk
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Graham
Huggan Professor Graham Huggan BA, Cambridge; MA, PhD, British Columbia
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Research Interests
My research spans the entire field of comparative postcolonial literary/cultural studies, and I also have interests in the areas of travel writing, ecocriticism, short fiction, and film. Recent publications include Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (co-written with Helen Tiffin, Routledge, 2010), Extreme Pursuits: Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization (University of Michigan Press, 2009), and a collection of essays, Racism, Postcolonialism, Europe (co-edited with Ian Law, Liverpool University Press, 2009). A revised collection of my own essays, Interdisciplinary Measures, came out in 2008, also with Liverpool University Press. Such work shows my continuing interest in cross-disciplinary approaches to postcolonial studies, as is also confirmed by the book series for which I am the founding co-editor, ‘Postcolonialism across the Disciplines’ (Liverpool University Press). Current projects include a book on the figure of the ‘celebrity conservationist’ (from Attenborough to Irwin) in the age of television, and I also hope to embark soon on a book-length study of postcolonial film. I am sole editor of the 250,000-word Oxford Handbook in Postcolonial Studies (estimated publication date 2012).
I am on the editorial board of numerous journals in the postcolonial field, am a regular national/international examiner and reviewer, and a current member of the AHRC Peer Review College (UK), the English Association (UK), and the MLA (US). I am also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland (Australia). At the University of Leeds, I currently direct the Centre for Canadian Studies (CCS) and the Institute
for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (ICPS), both cross-disciplinary bodies drawing on a wide range of university teaching and research in these fields. I am also project leader for an AHRC-funded international research network, ‘Postcolonial Europe’, with partners in Germany (the University of Munich) and the Netherlands (the University of Utrecht). I regularly organise events at Leeds––many of them postgraduate-oriented––for the AHRC network, the ICPS and CCS, and the Postcolonial Research Group, and I am general convenor of ‘Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Studies’, the School of English’s postcolonial MA scheme.
I have supervised PhD research, both at Leeds and elsewhere, on a wide range of topics and would welcome the opportunity to supervise further work in all areas of the postcolonial field, in the crossover area between literary and environmental criticism, in tourism studies and travel literature, and in contemporary film.
Recent Activities
In 2009 I gave keynote lectures at conferences in Spain (the Canary Islands),
Australia and New Zealand, and in 2010 I expect to spend three weeks in Australia
as an ICL-HCA Distinguished Visiting Fellow for the Humanities and Creative Arts.
Over the last year or so I have published three books (see Research Activities,
above); I have also given keynote addresses at conferences in Australia and
Germany, and have helped organise conferences and workshops in the Netherlands
and the UK.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Introduction
to Postcolonial Cinema
Postcolonial Literature
Travel Writing
Classics of Short Fiction
Human/Animal/Machine
Postgraduate
Postcolonial representations
Postcolonialism, Animals and the Environment
Leeds Postcolonial Research Group
Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Postcolonial Events in Semester 1 of Session 2009/10
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