Dr. Robert Spencer

Biography

Robert Spencer teaches postcolonial modernist literature and cultural theory. He offers courses including 'World Literature and the Climate Crisis' for third-year students, 'Modernism, Writing, Identity and Nation' for second-year students, and a focus on 'Modernism, Postcolonial Literatures, and Key Issues in Twentieth-Century Cultural Theory' at the Master's level. His research interests center on modernist and postcolonial world literatures from a materialist perspective, with published works exploring themes such as African dictator fictions, cosmopolitanism, humanism, and new directions in postcolonial writing. Currently, he is investigating the representation of utopian visions in world literature as it relates to the climate crisis, with a specific focus on various ecologies like forests and oceans. Additionally, he is co-authoring a book on British writing in the context of empire and Brexit, and he supervises postgraduate students interested in the intersections of politics, aesthetics, and modernism within postcolonial world literature.

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