Dr Anthony Carrigan

Title: Lecturer in English
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I joined Keele in 2009 having studied at the universities of Cambridge (BA), London (MA), and Leeds (PhD). My teaching interests and experiences are wide ranging, and I contribute to a number of undergraduate English and Film modules, including Reading Literature, Becoming a Critic, Twentieth-Century Novels into Films, Post-War British Fiction and Poetry, The Two Cultures of the Arts and the Sciences, and Postcolonial and World Literature. I also teach on the Humanities MRes and the MA in Global Media and Culture, and would be very happy to supervise research students working in any area of postcolonial or environmental studies.

 

My research focuses on postcolonial literatures and cultures, looking especially at issues such as globalisation, economic development, and environmental change. My book Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment (Routledge, 2011) examines writings from islands in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean in relation to interdisciplinary tourism studies, showing how imaginative texts provide strategies for negotiating exploitative travel practices. My current research project on Postcolonial Literature and Disaster addresses the social and environmental dimensions of a number of post-WWII crises, exploring how postcolonial aesthetics can enhance disaster management and sustainability planning. In each case, my work seeks to engage with a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and build on the exciting research currently taking place at the intersection between postcolonialism and ecocriticism. From January–June 2012 I will be a Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich.

Selected Publications

  • Carrigan A. 2012. 'Justice is on our side'? Animal's People, Generic Hybridity, and Eco-crime. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 47(2), 159-174. doi>
  • Carrigan A. 2011. "Out of this great tragedy will come a world class tourism destination": Disaster, Ecology, and Post-Tsunami Tourism Development in Sri Lanka. In Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment. Deloughrey E and Handley G (Eds.). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. link>
  • Carrigan A. 2011. (Eco)Catastrophe, Reconstruction, and Representation: Montserrat and the Limits of Sustainability. New Literatures Review, vol. 47-48, 111-128. link>
  • Carrigan A. 2011. Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment. London and New York: Routledge. link>
  • Carrigan A. 2010. Postcolonial Disaster, Pacific Nuclearization, and Disabling Environments. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 4(3), 255-272. doi> link>

Full Publications List show

Books

  • Carrigan A. 2011. Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment. London and New York: Routledge. link>

Journal Articles

  • Carrigan A. 2012. 'Justice is on our side'? Animal's People, Generic Hybridity, and Eco-crime. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 47(2), 159-174. doi>
  • Carrigan A. 2012. Review of Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt, Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives. Modern Language Review, vol. 107(3), 911-913. doi> link>
  • Carrigan A. 2011. Review of Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin, Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 47(3), 352-353. doi> link>
  • Carrigan A. 2011. (Eco)Catastrophe, Reconstruction, and Representation: Montserrat and the Limits of Sustainability. New Literatures Review, vol. 47-48, 111-128. link>
  • Carrigan A. 2010. Postcolonial Disaster, Pacific Nuclearization, and Disabling Environments. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 4(3), 255-272. doi> link>
  • Carrigan A. 2010. Postcolonial Tourism, Island Specificity, and Literary Representation: Observations on Derek Walcott’s Omeros. Space and Culture, vol. 13(2), 154-63. doi> link>
  • Carrigan A. 2010. Review of Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey, Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures. NWIG: New West Indian Guide, vol. 84(3-4), 328-330. link>
  • Carrigan A. 2009. Tourism, Culture, and Reindigenization in Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues and Georgia Ka‘apuni McMillen’s School for Hawaiian Girls. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 45(2), 181-190. doi> link>
  • Carrigan A. 2008. 'Hotels are Squatting on My Metaphors': Tourism, Sustainability, and Sacred Space in the Caribbean. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 13-14(2-1), 59-82. link>
  • Carrigan A. 2007. Preening with Privilege, Bubbling Bilge: Representations of Cruise Tourism in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow and Derek Walcott’s Omeros. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 14(1), 143-59. doi> link>
  • Carrigan A. 2006. Negotiating Personal Identity and Cultural Memory in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative. Wasafiri, vol. 21(2), 42-47. doi> link>

Chapters

  • Carrigan A. 2011. "Out of this great tragedy will come a world class tourism destination": Disaster, Ecology, and Post-Tsunami Tourism Development in Sri Lanka. In Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment. Deloughrey E and Handley G (Eds.). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. link>
  • Carrigan A. 2010. Haunted Places, Development, and Opposition in Kamau Brathwaite’s 'The Namsetoura Papers'. In Postcolonial Ghosts/Fantômes Post-Coloniaux. Joseph-Vilain M and Misrahi-Barak J (Eds.). (vol. n°8). Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. link>