Goldsmiths - University of London

Professor Bart Moore-Gilbert

BA (Hons) English, Durham University, 1975; MA English Durham University, 1976; DPhil English Oxford University, 1982; Lecturer, Roehampton University, London, 1980-89; appointed Goldsmiths College, 1989

Teaching

• BA Postcolonial literatures; MA Postcolonial Life-writing, Autobiography
• MA Palestine and Postcolonialism

Areas of supervision

• Feminism in the post-war Indian women’s novel
• Trauma Studies and Postcolonialism
• Globalisation and the south Asian diaspora
• Postcolonial satire
• Postcolonial representations of childhood
• Psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory

Professional activities

• Member of Kipling Society; editorial Board of ‘Journal of Commonwealth Literature’
• External Assessor, Literature Board, Open University
• External examinerships; I’ve examine PhDs for the Universities of London, Essex, Leeds, Kent, Cambridge, Glasgow, Delhi, Queensland, MacQuarrie
• Visiting professor: Autonomous University of Mexico, 2004

Research interests

My research interests include colonial and postcolonial literatures, postcolonial theory and autobiographical writing. I am currently working on the relations between Palestine and postcolonialism.

Selected publications

• Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics and Self-Representation (Routledge, 2009)
• Hanif Kureishi (Manchester, 2001)
• Postcolonial Theory: Contexts, Practices, Politics (London, 1997)
• Writing India(ed) (Manchester, 1997)
• Cultural Closure? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1970s (London, 1994)
• Cultural Revolution? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s (London, 1992)
• Kipling and “Orientalism” (London, 1987)