Graham
Huggan Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures
email: g.d.m.huggan@leeds.ac.uk
tel: +44(0) 113 343 4767
fax: +44(0) 113 343 4774
room: 7.1.01
Graham
Huggan Professor Graham Huggan BA, Cambridge; MA, PhD, British Columbia
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Research Interests
Comparative postcolonial literary and cultural studies (esp. Canadian and Australian);
cross-disciplinary approaches to Commonwealth & Postcolonial Literatures
(esp. history, geography, anthropology); postcolonial film; postcolonial
Europe
(esp. current issues of 'race' and racism, migration, multiculturalism); contemporary
travel writing; ecocriticism (esp, the representation of animals and animal
rights). Author of Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in
Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction (University of Toronto Press,
1994); Peter Carey (Oxford University Press, 1996); The Postcolonial
Exotic: Marketing the Margins (Routledge, 2001); co-author of Tourists
with Typewriters: Critical reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing (University
of Michigan Press, 1998); co-editor of Critical Perspectives on J.M.Coetzee
(Macmillan, 1996). Recently completed Australian Literature: Racism, Postcolonialism,
Transnationalism for Oxford University Press (2007). Current
projects include Extreme Pursuits: Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization
(University of Michigan Press), and a co-written book on postcolonialism, animals
and the environment. Co-director of the university's Institute
for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.
Recent Activities
Author, Australian Literature: Racism, Postcolonialism, Transnationalism (Oxford
University Press, 2007)
Co-editor (with Stephan Klasen), Perspectives
on Endangerment (Olms Verlag 2006) *
Co-editor (with Helen Tiffin), special
issue of Interventions: 'Greening Postcolonialism' (2007)
Co-organiser (with Ian Law), 'Racism, Postcolonialism, Europe' conference (May
2006, with speakers including Michel Wieviorka, Philomena Essed and Griselda
Pollock)
Coordinator, postcolonial seminar series (2006 speakers have included Sandra
Ponzanesi, Molara Ogundipe, Ranjana Khanna and Michelle Keown)
Teaching
I will be on research leave for Semester 1, 2007-8
Undergraduate
Travel
Writing: From Marco Polo to Bruce Chatwin
Postgraduate
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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