Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature;
D. Phil. 1979, M.A. 1977, B.A. 1972, Exeter College, Oxford.

Research Interests:

Postcolonial literatures and cultures; the history of colonialism and anti-colonialism; cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries; literary and cultural theory.

Selected Works:

The Idea of English Ethnicity. Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008

Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers; Chennai, India:T.R. Publications, 2001.
Torn Halves: Political Conflict in Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race. London and New York:Routledge, 1995.
White Mythologies:Writing History and the West. London and New York:Routledge, 1990.

General Editor, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

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