DeLoughrey, Elizabeth

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DeLoughrey, Elizabeth
Associate Professor and VC of Undergraduate Studies
Humanities 178D
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Education

University of Maryland, College Park, PhD., 1999

Interests

Postcolonial Studies, Ecocritical & Environmental Studies, Diaspora and Indigenous Studies, Globalization Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Literatures, Pacific Island Literatures, Critical Race and Gender Studies

Selected Publications

Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment. Co-edited with George Handley. Oxford University Press, 2011.

"Island Writing, Creole Cultures." Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature. Ed. Ato Quayson. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

“Heavy Waters: Waste and Atlantic Modernity.” PMLA. (125.3). May 2010. Special feature on Oceanic Studies. [PDF]

“Radiation Ecologies and the Wars of Light.” Modern Fiction Studies.55.3 (2009) 468-495. [PDF]

“Globalizing  the Routes of Breadfruit and Other Bounties.” Journal of Colonialism and  Colonial History. 8:3 (Winter 2008): [Link]

“Against Authenticity: Global Knowledges and  Postcolonial Ecocriticism.” Introduction to special issue on postcolonial  ecocriticism, written and edited with Cara Cilano. ISLE: Interdisciplinary  Studies of Literature and the Environment. 14:1 (Winter 2007): 71-88. [PDF]

Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific  Island Literatures.(U of Hawai’i Press, 2007). [Link]
Introduction: [PDF]

Caribbean  Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. (Introduced and co-edited with  Renée Gosson and George Handley. U of Virginia Press, 2005.) [Link] Introduction: [PDF]

“Quantum Landscapes: A Ventriloquism of Spirit.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Special issue: Green Postcolonialism, Eds. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin. 9:1 (2007): 62-82. [PDF]

"The Spiral Temporalities of Patricia Grace's Potiki." Ariel 30(1): (January 1999): 59-83. [PDF]

"Gendering the Voyage: Trespassing the (Black) Atlantic and Caribbean." Thamyris: Caribbean Women's Writing/Imagining Caribbean Space Ed. Carole Boyce Davies. 5:2 (1998): 205-231. [PDF]

Additional Information

Professor DeLoughrey joined the English Department in 2008. Her scholarship has been supported by institutions such as the NEH, Rockefeller, UCLA Global Studies Program, Fulbright, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities. She recently co-edited a volume on postcolonial ecologies and is currently writing a manuscript on environmentalism, energy, militarism and waste. In 2011 she co-organized the Legacies of Pacific Island Militarization workshop and in 2010 the Globalized Islands: Contemporary Literature & the Transnational Encounter conference. In 2009 she was one of the departmental co-organizers of the Mellon Foundation’s Cultural Pre-history of Environmentalism Project. She teaches postcolonial literature courses on the environment, globalization, the politics of food, women’s writing and migration, and Pacific Island literature. 



Currently she is coordinator of the Postcolonial Literature and Theory Colloquium.

Professor DeLoughrey joined the English Department in 2008. Her scholarship has been supported by institutions such as the NEH, Rockefeller, UCLA Global Studies Program, Fulbright, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities. She recently co-edited a volume on postcolonial ecologies and is currently writing a manuscript on environmentalism, energy, militarism and waste. In 2011 she co-organized the Legacies of Pacific Island Militarization workshop and in 2010 the Globalized Islands: Contemporary Literature & the Transnational Encounter conference. In 2009 she was one of the departmental co-organizers of the Mellon Foundation’s Cultural Pre-history of Environmentalism Project. She teaches postcolonial literature courses on the environment, globalization, the politics of food, women’s writing and migration, and Pacific Island literature.