Peter Kalliney
- William J. Tuggle Chair in English
- Associate Chair of English Department
- English
- Social Theory
1261 Patterson Office Tower
257-6964
Research Interests:
- Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Literature and Culture
- African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture
Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan 2001
AB University of Pennsylvania 1993
Biography
My scholarly interests include twentieth-century literature and theory. I am currently working on a book project on the Cold War and decolonization, with a special emphasis on African, British, and Caribbean literature.
Research
Areas of Specialty:
- Twentieth-Century British Literature
- Postcolonial Literature
- Literary Theory and Globalization
- Cultural Studies
Awards and Fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2017-18
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2009-2010
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2008
Selected Publications:
- In progress: Bandung Generation: Decolonization and the Aesthetic Cold War.
- Modernism in a Global Context. Bloomsbury, 2016. New Modernisms series, edited by Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers.
http://bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/Marketing.aspx?ID=GlblCntxt&ISBN=978...
- Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics. Oxford University Press, 2013. Modernist Literature and Culture series, edited by Kevin JH Dettmar and Mark Wollaeger.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/commonwealth-of-letters-97801999...
- Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness. University of Virginia Press, 2007.
http://books.upress.virginia.edu/title/49
- "Modernism, African Literature, and the Cold War." MLQ, 2015.
- "East African Literature and the Politics of Global Reading." Research in African Literatures, 2008.
- "Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors: 1950s London and the Emergence of Postcolonial Literature." PMLA, 2007.
- William J. Tuggle Chair in English
- Associate Chair of English Department
- English
- Social Theory
1261 Patterson Office Tower
257-6964
