Ph.D. Columbia University
Professor, College of Staten Island. English
A central interest of mine is the experience
and literature of migration, including movement from liberated
nations to the former imperial center and from rural areas
to the mega-cities of the global South. I have also
worked recently on global media cultures and on contemporary
discourses of U.S. imperialism.
Selected Publications:
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Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture
and the Making of Postcolonial Britain. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2007.
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Exceptional State: Contemporary
U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism. Co-editor
with Malini Johar Schueller. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2007.
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"Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dub Poetry
and the Political Aesthetics of Carnival." Small
Axe 21 (2006).
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"The Return of
Limits: Peak Oil and the Fate of American Suburbia."
New Politics 11.2 (Fall 2006).