Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ
UK

Telephone 01206 872608

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Curriculum vitae 

1966‑70           Undergraduate, Department of Spanish, University of Leeds

1970‑71           Research in Madrid on Spanish Government Scholarship

1971‑74           Research student, Department of Literature, University of Essex

1974‑78           Temporary Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex

1979‑89           Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex

1985                (March) Visiting Lecturer at the Institut des Langues Etrangères, University of Algiers

1986                (September - December)  Visiting Research Fellow in the Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico

1988                (April - May)  Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen

1989‑91           Senior Lecturer in Literature, University of Essex

1991‑93           Reader in Literature, University of Essex

1993-               Professor in Literature, University of Essex

1993-94           Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park

1994                (August - September)  Visiting Professor at the University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

1997                (September)  Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada

1999                (July)  Brooks Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia

1999                (August – September)  Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU

1999-2001          British Academy Research Reader

2000                (March-April)  Short-term Fellow at Newberry Library, Chicago

Awards and Grants

1970‑71           Spanish Government Scholarship (for research in Madrid)

1971‑74           Major State Studentship (UK)

1974                Argentine Government Scholarship (for research in Buenos Aires)

1982‑83           British Academy Award (for research in South America and the Caribbean)

1986                British Academy Award (for research in the Caribbean)

1990                British Academy Award (for research in the U.S.A. and the Caribbean)

1993‑94           Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship, University of Maryland, College Park

1999-2001          British Academy Research Readership

2000                Short-term Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago

Teaching and Supervision

Courses currently taught: “Foundations of Postcolonial Theory” (graduate), “Indigeneity and Invention” (graduate),” (undergraduate), “Contemporary Travel Writing” (undergraduate)

Plus lectures given for: Approaches to Text; The Enlightenment; Versions of Modernity.

Courses previously taught: First‑year Literature; Modern Literary Theory; Literature and Politics in the Caribbean; New Literatures; Practical Criticism; Introduction to Latin America; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; Writing Other Cultures; Literature and History in the Caribbean, Baudelaire and Paris; M.A. in the Sociology of Literature; Certificate Seminar; M.A. in Cross‑Cultural Studies;

Ph.D. topics supervised include: The Eastern Novels of Joseph Conrad; The Image of Japan in British Film; Taiwanese New Cinema; The Pacific Novels of Herman Melville; The Nigerian Novel; The Black British Novel; Crusader Discourse; British Cultural Studies; Simone de Beauvoir; Eighteenth-century Feminist Fiction; Late Nineteenth-century Aesthetic Theory; Indo-Caribbean Women’s Writing, Masculinity and Nationalism in the Caribbean, Contemporary Native American Fiction

Examining and Administration (University of Essex)

1976‑               Papers set and examinations marked for all the courses referred to in the previous section

1976‑95           Member of the Latin American Studies Committee

1976‑84           Joint organiser of Essex Sociology of Literature conferences

1979‑               Invigilating, Advising, Interviewing

1979‑               Supervisor of numerous successful Ph.D. students

1979‑               Internal examiner for numerous Ph.D. theses in the Departments of Literature, Sociology, and History

1979‑81, 1982‑86, 1987‑91, 1995-98  Member of the Board of Comparative Studies

1979‑92           Director or joint‑director of the M.A. in the Sociology of Literature

1981‑82           Senior Adviser, School of Comparative Studies

1981‑82           Member of Social Policy Board, and chairperson of its working party on the representational structure of the University

1983‑93           Member of Departmental Work‑Load Committee

1984‑91           Joint Director of The Enlightenment

1987                Member of Departmental Academic Plan Committee

1988‑92           Elected member of Senate

1989‑95           Joint organiser of the Essex ‘Literature Politics Theory’ symposia

1990                Co‑ordinator of Criticism: Practice and Theory

1990                Member of Departmental selection committee

1990                External member of selection committee in History

1990‑92           Departmental Graduate Director

1992                Chief organiser of The Fourth World events and conference

1993                External member of selection committee in Art History and Theory

1994                Co-ordinator of Criticism: Practice and Theory

1994                External member of selection committee in Sociology

1994-95           Departmental Examinations Officer

1994-95           Member of Staffing Committee

1994-96           Director of M.A. in Critical and Cultural Studies

1995-98           Head of Department

1995-98           Director of M.A. in Postcolonial Studies

1997                Member of Departmental Review Committee for Sociology

1997                 Joint-organiser of the conference Pacific Asia: Cultural and Postcolonial Studies

2000                 Joint-organiser of Francis Barker Memorial Conference

2001-05           Departmental Web Officer

2001-05           Departmental Staff Development Officer

2001-05           Member of the Board of the School of Humanities and Comparative Studies

2002-05           Head of Department

Examining and Administration (External) 

1979-               External examiner for Ph.D. theses at the University of York, University of Nottingham, Trent Polytechnic, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of Hong Kong, University of Queensland, University of Warwick, Nottingham Trent University, University of Kent, University of Adelaide,  University of Exeter,  Australian National University, University of New South Wales, University of Leeds.

1981‑83           External examiner, M.A. in 19th century English and French Novel, University of  York

1990‑93           External examiner, B.A. in English, Queen Mary and Westfield College

1991‑93           External examiner, M.A. in Cultural Studies, Cheltenham and Gloucester CHE

1991‑               Member of International Advisory Board for New West Indian Guide

1992-               Member of Advisory Board for Ecumene: A Journal of  Environment‑Culture‑Meaning

1993‑96           External examiner, M.A. in Comparative Literary Theory and Translation Studies, University of Warwick

1994-               Member of Editorial Advisory Board for The Smithsonian Series of Studies in Native American Literatures

1994-96           External examiner, M.A. in Colonial & Postcolonial Literature, University of Warwick

1995-               Member of Advisory Board for Ilha do desterro

1996-               Member of Advisory Board for Jouvert: Internet Journal of Postcolonial Studies

1996-               Member of Editorial Board University of Pennsylvania Press Americas Cultural Studies series

1997-                Assistant Editor, Studies in Travel Writing

1998                External assessor for Chair at Queen Mary and Westfield College

1998-2002       External examiner, M.A. in English Literary Studies, Nottingham Trent University

1999-               Member of Editorial Board for Kacike: Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology

2000-               Member of Editorial Board for The Jean Rhys Review

2000-02           External examiner, B.A. in School of English and American Studies, UEA

2003-4             External assessor for Chair at University of York

2004                External assessor for Chair at Queen Mary

2004-               External assessor for M.A. in Postcolonial Studies at University of Stirling

2004-               Advisory editor for Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

2004-5             Member of selection panel for AHRB Research Centres Scheme Phase 2

Reader of manuscripts for OUP, CUP, Duke UP, University of Hawai’i Press, Yale UP, Routledge, University of Illinois Press.

Conference Papers

1980        ‘1642: Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century’, University of Essex

1980        Thaxted Conference on Cross‑Cultural Studies

1983        Centre for Social History Conference, Oxford

1984        ‘Europe and Its Others’, University of Essex

1984        Centre for Social History Conference, Oxford

1984        Essex Literature Festival

1987        Aberdeen Conference on Cultural History

1987        Association for Cultural Studies, Portsmouth Polytechnic

1988        Latin American Studies Association, New Orleans

1988        ‘Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere’, Northeast London Polytechnic

1990        ‘Implicit Ethnographies’, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

1991        ‘Cultural Difference’, University of Cardiff

1991        ‘Frontiers of European Culture’, University of Aberdeen

1991        ‘The Human Sciences in Historical Context’, University of Essex

1991        ‘Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory’, University of  Essex

1992         Inaugural Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, University of East Anglia

1992         XXIV Senapulli Conference on ‘The Literature of the Discoveries’, João Pessoa, Brazil

1992        Society for Caribbean Studies Conference, Oxford

1992        ‘The Anthropology of the Caribbean: The View from 1992’, University of Leiden

1992        ‘Gender, Nationalisms, and National Identities’, Bellagio

1992        ‘New Approaches to the Teaching of English’, University of Salamanca

1992        ‘Transatlantic Encounters’, Vanderbilt University, Nashville

1993        ‘Gender in Question’, University of Essex

1993        ‘Word in Time: A Conference in Honour of Arthur Terry’, University of Essex

1994        ‘Nationalism(s), Cultures, and the Shape of the World’, Georgetown University

1994        ‘The Caribbean Between Empires’, Princeton University

1994         ‘Possible Pasts: Critical Encounters in Early America’, University of Pennsylvania (keynote)

1994         ‘A View of Our Own: Ethnocentric Perspectives in Literature’, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

1995        ‘Transatlantic Passages’, University of La Laguna, Tenerife

1995        ‘Text and Nation: Cultures in Conflict’, Georgetown University

1995         ‘Staging History: The Indigenous and the European View’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

1995         ‘Postcolonialism / Japan’, University of Kyushu

1995         ‘Shakespeare / Postcolonialism’, Tokyo Metropolitan University

1997          ‘Indigenous Legacies of the Caribbean’, Baracoa, Cuba

1998          ‘Transnationalism, Creolization, and the Cultural Politics of Encounter’, University of Wisconsin Madison (keynote)

1998          ‘The Tempest in the Old World and the New’, University of Maryland College Park

1998          ‘Visión retrospectiva del 1898’, Montclair State University

1998          ‘Borders and Crossings’, Magee College, Derry

1998          ‘National Culture(s)’, University of Casablanca

1999          ‘Islands: Representations and Histories’, University of Kent

1999          Australian Association for Caribbean Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne

1999          Australian Association for Latin American Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne

1999          ‘Trading Places’, University of Queensland, Brisbane (keynote)

1999          ‘Crossings: Racial and Sexual Intermixture in Africa and the New World’, The Clark Library / UCLA

1999          ‘Toufann and Other Tempests’, Birkbeck College, University of London

2000          ‘Seuils et traverses’, Université de Brest (keynote)

2000          ‘Travel and Nation’, British Academy (keynote)

2000          ‘Sea Changes’, University of Greifswald (keynote)

2000          ‘Contextualising the Caribbean’, University of Miami (keynote)

2001          Australian Association for Caribbean Studies, ANU, Canberra

2001          “Local / global / virtual: (Re)inventions of the Caribbean”, University of Puerto Rico (keynote)

2001          Caribbean Studies Association Conference, University of Nottingham

2001          “Locating the Victorians”, London

2002          “Travel and Anthropology”, NTU

2002          “Beyond Postcolonial Studies, University of Illinois (keynote)

2002          “Tropical Views and Visions”, National Maritime Museum, London

2003          “Masks of the British Empire”, University of Palermo, Sicily

2003          “Society of Latin American Studies”, Manchester University (keynote)

2003          “George Lamming: Philosopher of the Caribbean”, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

2004          ABRALIC (Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature), Porto Alegre, Brazil

2005          The Medieval Academy, Miami Beach

2005          “Caribbean Interfaces”, Université Lille III Charles-de-Gaulle & KUL, Kortrijk

2005          “Beyond the Nation: Reading Spanish Caribbean Culture in the 21st century” Birmingham University

2005          Latin American Cultural Studies day conference, Birkbeck College

2005          “Mobilis in Mobile: International conference on Travel Writing”, University of Hong Kong (keynote)

2005          “Middle Passages: The Oceanic Voyage as Social Process”, Fremantle, Australia (keynote)

2005          “Race, Empire and Captivity”, Longford, Tasmania

2005          “Comparative Postcolonialities”, University of Pittsburgh

2006          “Disunited Empires”, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Visiting lectures and seminars

 1979                Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London

1982                School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia

1982                Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London

1983                Department of English and Related Literatures, University of York

1984                Critical Theory Seminar, University of Cardiff

1984                Americanist Seminar, Museum of Mankind, London

1986                Department of Anthropology, University of Durham

1986                Centre for the Study of Contemporary Culture, University of  Massachusetts, Amherst

1986                English Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley

1986                History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz

1986                Institute for Research in the Humanities, Stanford University

1986                Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

1986                English Department, University of Puerto Rico

1986                Department of English and Related Literatures, University of York

1986                Intercollegiate Anthropology Seminar of London University

1987                Colchester Public Library

1987                Warburg Institute, London

1987                Americanist Seminar, Museum of Mankind, London

1988                Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Copenhagen

1988                Horniman Museum, London

1988                Departments of History and Anthropology, Rice University, Houston

1989                Critical Theory seminar, University of Nottingham

1989                Department of English, King Alfred’s College, Winchester

1989                English Department, University of Puerto Rico

1989                Warburg Institute, London

1990                Department of Spanish, University of Indiana

1990                Departments of History and Anthropology, Rice University, Houston

1991                English Department, University of Exeter

1992                Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex

1992                Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Maryland

1993                London Renaissance Seminar, Birkbeck College, University of London

1993                Department of Spanish, Georgetown University

1993                Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins University

1993                Departments of English and History, Rutgers University

1994                Department of Spanish, Montclair State College

1994                Latin American Centre, Princeton University

1994                Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Vanderbilt University

1994                Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1994                Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1994                Department of History, Rice University

1994                Program in Theory, Tulane University

1994                Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Essex

1995                Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge

1995                Pre-Industrial Seminar, University of Durham

1995                Centre for English Studies, University of London

1995                Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka

1995                Tsukuba University, Tokyo

1996                Cheltenham and Gloucester CHE

1996                Open University

1997                Department of English and Related Literatures, University of York

1997                Department of English, University of Alberta

1998                Georgetown University

1998                 Department of English, University of Casablanca Ain Chok

1999                 Department of English, University of Wollongong

1999                Department of English, ANU, Canberra

1999                Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

1999                Department of English, University of Oregon, Eugene

1999                Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen

1999                Culture and Power in the Global System Seminar, University of Aberdeen

1999                Department of English and Media Studies, Nottingham Trent University

1999                Imperial Studies Seminar, University of London

2000                Department of English, University of Edinburgh

2000                Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin Madison

2000                Americanist Seminar, Museum of Mankind, London

2000                Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex

2001                Department of English, University of Puerto Rico

2001                Department of Language and Literature, University of Salerno

2001                 Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples

2001                Centre for Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling

2002                The Sir Henry Thomas Memorial Lecture, University of Birmingham

2002                Departments of English and Spanish, Cornell University

2003                Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick

2004                Department of American Studies, University of Nottingham

2005                Department of English, University of Tasmania

2006                Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA

Reviews

 American Historical Review, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies,  Bulletin of Hispanic Studies,  Bulletin of Latin American Research,  Gender and History,  Hispanic American Historical Review,  Journal of American Studies,  Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History,  Literature and History,  New Comparison,  New Formations,  New Left Review,  New West Indian Guide,  Over Here,  Renaissance Studies,  Research in African Literature, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, Times Literary Supplement,  Science as Culture,  Social History,  Wasafiri,  William & Mary Quarterly.

Publications

Books and articles

 1         Reflexive Fiction: The Study of a Cervantine Tradition in Spanish and Spanish American Literature, Ph.D. thesis, University of Essex, 1976, 420pp.

 2         ‘Macedonio Fernández’s “técnica del mareo”: the analysis of a literary device’, Ibero‑Amerikanisches Archiv, III, 1977, 351‑64.

 3         ‘Columbus and the cannibals: a study of the reports of anthropophagy in the journal of Christopher Columbus’, Ibero‑Amerikanisches Archiv, IV, 1978, 115‑39.

 4         ‘The face in the mirror: Borges’s "La busca de Averroes"‘, Forum for Modern Language Studies, XIV, 1979, 292‑7.

 5         (and Gordon Brotherston)  ‘A partial history of traduction’, Comparative Criticism, 2, 1979, 319‑30.

 6         ‘Hurricanes in the Caribbees: the constitution of the discourse of English colonialism’, in 1642: Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century, ed. F. Barker et al., Colchester: University of Essex, 1981, pp. 55‑83.

 7         ‘The "text in itself": a symposium’, Southern Review, 17, 1984, 115‑46 at 134‑7.

 8         ‘English Caribbean Literature’ and ‘French Caribbean Literature’, in The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Latin America, ed. Simon Collier et al., Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 372‑5, 376‑7.

 9         (and Francis Barker)  ‘Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: the discursive con‑texts of The Tempest’, in Alternative Shakespeares, ed. John Drakakis, London and New York: Methuen, 1985, pp. 191‑205.  (Frequently reprinted, e.g. in Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000, ed. Russ McDonald, Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

10        ‘Polytropic man: tropes of sexuality and mobility in early colonial discourse’, in Europe and Its Others, ed. F. Barker et al., Colchester: University of Essex, 1985, vol. II, pp. 17‑32.

11        ‘Balzac’s Parisian mystery: La cousine Bette and the writing of historical criticism’, Literature and History, XI, 1985, 47‑64.

12        Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492‑1797, London and New York: Methuen, 1986, 348pp.

13        (and F. Barker et al.)  ‘Introduction’ to Literature, Politics, and Theory, London and New York: Methuen, 1986, pp. ix‑xvi.

14        ‘Race’, Textual Practice, I, no. 1, 1987, 87‑93.

15        ‘Islands of enchantment: extracts from a Caribbean travel diary’, New Formations, 3, 1987, 81‑95.

16        ‘Sojourners of the Caribbean’, Critique of Anthropology, VIII, no. 1, 1988, 119‑25.

17        ‘Chiefdoms of the Caribbean’, Critique of Anthropology, VIII, no. 2, 1988, 105‑18.

18        ‘Smuggling human hopes: the two worlds of Puerto Rican literature’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, LXVI, 1989, 95‑7.

19        ‘The large, rich, and beautiful empire of Guiana’, Over Here, 9, no. 2, 1989, 29‑39.

20        ‘The log of Christopher Columbus: a review essay’, Culture and History, 6, 1989, 25‑36.

21        ‘Subversive archipelagoes: the theory of colonial discourse’, Dispositio, XIV, nos. 36‑38, 1989, 1‑24.

22        (and Ludmilla Jordanova)  ‘Introduction’ to The Enlightenment and Its Shadows, ed. Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova, London and New York: Routledge, 1990, pp. 1‑15.

23        ‘The spontaneous hand of nature; savagery, colonialism, and the Enlightenment’, in The Enlightenment and Its Shadows, ed. Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova, London and New York: Routledge, 1990, pp. 16‑34.

24        ‘The rhetoric of description: the Amerindians of the Caribbean within modern European discourse’, Caribbean Studies, 23, nos. 3‑4, 1990, 35‑50.

25        ‘Dancing with Mr Hesketh: Jean Rhys and the Caribs’, Sargasso, 7, 1990, 18‑26.

26        (and Francis Barker and Margaret Iversen)  ‘Introduction’ to Uses of History: Marxism, Postmodernism and the Renaissance, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1991, pp. 1‑23.

27        ‘Rewriting the Caribbean past’, in Interpretation and Culture, ed. Joan H. Pittock and Andrew Wear, London and New York: Macmillan, 1991, pp. 175‑97.

28        Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492‑1797 [reprint of 12] London and New York: Routledge, 1992, 348pp., paperback edition.

29        ‘English Caribbean Literature’ and ‘French Caribbean Literature’, in The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Latin America, ed. Simon Collier et al., Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, rev. ed., pp. 399‑401, 402‑3.

30        (and Neil Whitehead)  ‘Introduction’ to Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day, Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. 1‑7.

31        (and Francis Barker and Margaret Iversen)  ‘Introduction’ to Postmodernism and the Re‑reading of Modernity, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1992, pp. 1‑22.

32        ‘Towards a cultural history of America’, New West Indian Guide, 66, nos. 1 & 2, 1992, 77‑82.

33        (and Pauline Antrobus et al.)  Mapping the Americas, Colchester: University of Essex, 1992, 78pp.

34        (and Francis Barker)  ‘The Tempest and oppression’ [partial reprint of 9], in Shakespeare: ‘The Tempest’, ed. D.J. Palmer, London and New York: Macmillan, 1992, pp. 200‑10.

35        ‘The claptrap of empire’, Literature and History, 3rd series, 1, no. 2 (1992), 94-6.

36        ‘Reciprocity and exchange’ [partial reprint of 12], in Formations of Modernity, ed. Stuart Hall and Bram Gieben, Cambridge: Polity Press in association with the Open University, 1993, pp. 330‑31.

37        ‘The profit of language: George Lamming’s Water with Berries’, in Recasting the World: Literature after Colonialism, ed. Jonathan White, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 38-52.

38        ‘Out of England: women, travel and Empire’, Gender and History, 5, 1993, 159-64.

39        ‘Making sense of the native Caribbean’, New West Indian Guide, 67, nos. 3 & 4, 1993, 189-220.

40        Elegy for a Dying Race: The Caribs and their Visitors, University of Maryland: ‘Discovering the Americas’ Working Paper no. 14, 1993, 42pp.

41        ‘Making no bones: a response to Myra Jehlen’, Critical Inquiry, 20, 1993, 179-86.

42        ‘Quincentenary perspectives’,  History Workshop Journal, 36, 1993, 228-31.

43        ‘The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea’, The Jean Rhys Review, VI, no. 1, 1993, 20‑36.

44        ‘"The vaste and new world of America": English literature of discovery 1589-1852-1992’, in A Literatura dos Descobrimentos: Identidade Nacional e Cultural em Relação ao Poder (1492-1992), João Pessoa: CCHLA-UFPB, 1993, pp. 26-31.

45        ‘Islands of enchantment: extracts from a Caribbean travel diary’ [reprint of 15], in Space & Place: Theories of Identity and Location, ed. Erica Carter, James Donald and Judith Squires, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1994, pp. 111-28.

46        ‘The atlantic world of Sacred Hunger’,  New Left Review, 204 (March-April 1994), 138-44.

47        (and Francis Barker and Margaret Iversen)  ‘Introduction’ to Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory, ed. F. Barker et al., Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994, pp. 1-23.

48        ‘The locked heart: the creole family romance of Wide Sargasso Sea’ [same as 42], in Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory, ed. F. Barker et al., Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994, pp. 72-88.

49        ‘Tales of distinction: European ethnography and the Caribbean’, in Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era, ed. Stuart B. Schwartz, New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 157-97.

50        ‘Postcolonial theory and the representation of culture in the Americas’, Ojo de Buey: Magazine Cultural, II, no. 3, 1994, 14-26.

51        ‘Columbus and the cannibals’ [partial reprint of 12] in The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin,  London and New York: Routledge, 1994, pp. 365-9.

52        ‘The place of Wide Sargasso Sea’, Wasafiri, 20, 1994, 5-11.

53        ‘Elegy for a dying race: the Island Caribs and their visitors’ [same as 39], in Wolves from the Sea: Readings in the An­thropology of the Native Caribbean, ed. Neil L. White­head, Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995, pp. 113-38.

54        ‘Old worlds for new’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 14, no. 1, 1995, 63-70.

55        Japanese translation of Colonial Encounters [28], Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 1995.

56        Rescuing Cuba: Adventure and Masculinity in the 1890s, Latin American Studies Center Series, no. 11, College Park: University of Maryland, 1996, 40pp.

57        ‘La teoría poscolonial y la representación de la cultura en las Américas’, Casa de las Américas, XXXVI, no. 202, 1996, 3-8 [trans. of 50].

58        ‘Survival and invention: indigeneity in the Caribbean’, in Text and Nation: Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Cultural and National Identities, ed. Laura García Moreno and Peter C. Pfeiffer, Columbia SC: Camden House, 1996, pp. 48-64.

59        ‘Postcolonial theory and the politics of locality: an approach to Wide Sargasso Sea’, in A View of Our Own: Ethnocentric Perspectives in Literature, ed. Fadillah Merican et al., Malaysia: Fakulti Pengajian Bahasa, UKM, 1996, pp. 21-30.

60        ‘El encuentro con Anacaona: Frederick Albion Ober y la historia del Caribe autóctono’, in El Caribe Entre Imperios (Coloquio de Princeton), ed. Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (Op. Cit. Revista del Centro de Investigacions Históricas, no. 9, edición extraordinaria), Río Piedras: Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1997, pp. 75-109.

61        ‘In the wake of Columbus: Frederick Ober’s ambulant gloss’, Literature and History, 6, no. 2, 1997, 18-36.

62        ‘Introduction’, to Studies in Travel Writing, no. 1 (Papers from the Essex Symposium on ‘Writing Travels’) (Spring 1997), 1-8.

63        ‘The cannibal scene’, in Cannibalism and the Colonial World, ed. F. Barker et al, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 1-32.

64        ‘Voice from the margins?: Walter Mignolo’s The Darker Side of the Renaissance’, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 8, no. 2, 1999, 219-33.

65        ‘Postcolonial theory and early America: an approach from the Caribbean’, in Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America, ed. Robert Blair St. George, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000, pp. 33-48.

66        ‘Reading from elsewhere: George Lamming and the paradox of exile’ in ‘The Tempest’ and Its Travels, ed. Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman, London: Reaktion Books, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, pp. 220-35.

67        Remnants of Conquest: The Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 371pp.

68        ‘Islands and roads: Hesketh Bell, Jean Rhys and Dominica’s Imperial Road’, The Jean Rhys Review, 11, no.2, 2000, 23-51.

69        ‘Survival and invention: indigeneity in the Caribbean’, in  Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology, ed. Gregory Castle, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 293-308 [reprint of 58]

70        ‘Foreword’ to Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific, ed. Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn, Annandale: Pluto Press, 2001, pp. ix-xi.

71        ‘Colombo e os canibais’ [translation into Portuguese of chapter 1 of Colonial Encounters [28]), Revista História Social, nos. 8-9 (2001-2), 13-53.

72        ‘Dire straits: ten leagues beyond’, in Native Texts & Contexts: Essays with Post-Colonial Perspectives, ed. Fadillah Merican and Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Selangor Darul Ehsan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2002, pp. 29-40.

73        ‘William Rees Williams in Dominica’, The Jean Rhys Review, 12, no.1, 2002, 52-57.

74        ‘Patagonian cases: travel writing, fiction, history’, in Seuils & Traverses: Enjeux de l’écriture du voyage, vol. II, ed. Jan Borm, Brest: Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique, 2002, pp. 223-37.

75        [with Tim Youngs] ‘Introduction’ to Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 1-13.

76       'Travelling to write’, in Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 87-101.

77       ‘Ethnographic origins: St Vincent and Tasmania’, in To the Islands: Australia and the Caribbean, ed. Russell McDougall, Australian Cultural History, no. 21 (2002), 53-60.

78       ‘Schiffbrüchig. Die äuβersten Ränder der Erde’, in Das Meer als kulterelle Kontaktzone, ed. Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun, Konstanz: UVK, 2003, pp. 319-335 (partial translation of 76)

79       ‘Stormy weather: misreading the postcolonial Tempest’, Early Modern Culture (http://eserver.org/emc/1-3/hulme.html (2003)).

80       ‘Black, yellow, and white on St Vincent: Moreau de Jonnès’s Carib ethnography’, in The Gloabl Eighteenth Century, ed. Felicity A. Nussbaum, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. 182-194.

81       ‘Black, yellow, and white on St Vincent: Moreau de Jonnès’s Carib ethnography’,  Sargasso, 2002-1: 85-104 [reprint of 80]

82       ‘Cast Away: The Uttermost Parts of the Earth’, in Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean, ed. Bernhard Klein and Gesa Mackenthun, New York: Routledge, 2004. pp. 187-201.

83       ‘“The silent language of the face”: The perception of indigenous difference in travel writing about the Caribbean’, in Perspectives on Travel Writing, ed. Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs, London: Ashgate, 2004, pp. 85-98.

84       ‘Undeveloped estates: Dominica and the landscape of the new imperialism’, in Landscape and Empire, ed. Glenn Hooper, London: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 111-126..

85       ‘Beyond the straits: Postcolonial allegories of the globe’, in Postcolonial Studies and Beyond, ed. Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Matti Bunzl, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 41-61.

86       ‘Dominica and Tahiti: Tropical islands compared’, in Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, ed. Fleix Driver and Luciana Martins, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005, pp. 77-90.

87       ‘The Fatal Gift. Storie di fine impero’, in Maschere dell’impero, ed. Elio di Piazza, Daniela Corona, and Marcella Romeo, Florence: Edizioni ETS, 2005, pp. 33-50.

88       ‘Passages to Oriente: Cuba at the crossroads’, Proceedings of the IX ABRALIC Conference, Porto Alegre: UFSC, 2006.

89       ‘The seeds of revolt: George Lamming and The Tempest’, in George Lamming and His Work, ed. Bill Schwarz, London: Macmillan, 2006.

90       ‘Oriente: towards a literary geography’, in Caribbean Interfaces, ed. Lieven D’hulst, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.

91       ‘Deep maps: travelling on the spot’, in Mobilis in mobile, ed. Paul Smethurst, 2006

92       ‘In the mouth of the Mississippi’, in US travel writing, ed. Susan Castillo and David Seed, 2007

Translations

1          ‘Tantalia’ and ‘Towards a Theory of the Novel’, in Macedonio Fernández, Macedonio: Selected Writings in Translation, ed. Jo Anne Engelbert, Fort Worth: Latitudes Press, 1984, pp. 30-35, 67-74.

2          ‘From New York to Moscow, via Paris’ and ‘A Baseball Player, Machine-Gun Captain’, by Nicolás Guillén, in Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic, ed. Alasdair Pettinger, London: Cassell, 1998, pp. 118-33, 185-87.

 Books edited

 1         (and Gordon Brotherston)  Borges: Ficciones, Harrap: London and New York, 1976, 228pp.

 2         (and F. Barker et al)  Literature, Society and the Sociology of Literature, University of Essex: Colchester, 1977, 179pp.

 3         (and F. Barker et al)  1848: The Sociology of Literature, University of Essex: Colchester, 1978, 290pp.

 4         (and F. Barker et al)  1936: The Sociology of Literature, 2 vols., University of Essex: Colchester, 1980, 296pp. and 398pp.

 5         (and F. Barker et al)  1642: Literature and Power in the Seventeenth Century, University of Essex: Colchester, 1981, 336pp.

 6         (and F. Barker et al)  1789: Reading Writing Revolution, University of Essex: Colchester, 1982, 323pp.

 7         (and F. Barker et al)  The Politics of Theory, University of Essex: Colchester, 1983, 264pp.

 8         (and F. Barker et al)  Confronting the Crisis: Politics, War and Culture in the ‘80s, University of Essex: Colchester, 1984, 165pp.

 9         (and F. Barker et al)  Europe and Its Others, 2 vols., University of Essex: Colchester, 1985, 193pp. and 200pp.

10        (and F. Barker et al)  Literature, Politics, and Theory, Methuen: London and New York, 1986, 259pp.

11        (and Ludmilla Jordanova)  The Enlightenment and Its Shadows, Routledge: London and New York, 1990, 232pp.

12        (and Francis Barker and Margaret Iversen)  Uses of History: Marxism, Postmodernism and the Renaissance, Manchester University Press: Manchester; St. Martin’s Press: New York, 1991, 192pp.

13        (and Neil Whitehead)  Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day, Clarendon Press: Oxford and New York, 1992, 369pp.

14        (and Francis Barker and Margaret Iversen)  Postmodernism and the Re‑reading of Modernity, Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 1992, 322pp.

15        (and Francis Barker and Margaret Iversen)  Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory, Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 1994, 288pp.

16        (and Francis Barker and Margaret Iversen)  Cannibalism and the Colonial World, CUP: Cambridge, 1998, 314pp.

17        (and Gordon Brotherston)  Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones, 2^nd. rev. ed. , London: Bristol Classical Press, 1999, 194pp.

18        (and William H. Sherman)  ‘The Tempest’ and Its Travels, London: Reaktion Books, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, 319pp.

19        (and Tim Youngs)  Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, Cambridge and New York: CUP, 2002, 343pp.

20        (and William H. Sherman)  William Shakespeare: The Tempest, A Norton Critical Edition, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003, 355pp.