Robert Spencer

I teach postcolonial and modernist literature, in addition to cultural theory. The courses I teach include World Literature and Climate Crisis (third year); Modernism and Writing, Identity and Nation (second year); and Modernism, Postcolonial Literatures, and Key Issues in Twentieth-Century Cultural Theory (MA). 

My research focuses on modernist, postcolonial and world literatures, from a materialist perspective. I have published books on African dictator fictions, cosmopolitanism, humanism, and new directions in postcolonial writing. I'm currently working on a study of world literature and the climate crisis that examines utopian representations of particular ecologies (forests, oceans, etc.) in addition to a co-authored book about British writing from empire to Brexit. 

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I welcome enquiries from postgraduate students interested in undertaking research on the politics and aesthetics of modernism, or any aspect of postcolonial and world literatures.