dr. A. Raghunath

 
Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

Postcolonial Literature, Literature of the 18th Century, The Gothic Novel.

Teaching

My BA courses:

• Introduction to Literature
• Aspects of British Literature 1300-1800
• Nation, Identity and Culture
• Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
• British literature 1900-present

My MA courses:

• Caribbean Literature
• The Gothic Gaze

Research

Current Research
At the moment I am researching the image of the Caribbean in British literature from the 18th to the mid-19th century. I am studying the way in which several key groups such as the Creole sugar planters and pirates were used in British literature as figures of fear and transgression against which Britishness became defined and clarified. My work has become more concentrated on questions of the construction of the British nation and nationality which is particularly relevant to contemporary developments in postcolonial theory and debates about the importance of colonial history in shaping "the nation" since the 18th Century.

Publications

Monographs:

• Raghunath, A.  Imperial Darkness: The Gothicisation of  the Colonial Subject in the British Empire (forthcoming 2010)
• Raghunath, A.  The Edited Letters of Dr. J.M. Bellamy. (forthcoming 2010)
  Raghunath,A. The Birth of Britishness: Colonial Identity and the Nation. Edling Academic Publishing (2009)
• Raghunath,A.  Carnival and Transgression in British and Caribbean Literature, 1707-1848 (University of London, 2002)

Chapters contributed to the following texts:

• Raghunath, A. ‘Onwards Apostles of English’  in English Teaching: Practice and Critique (2007
• Raghunath, A.‘The Dark Side: Caribbean Gothic Writings.’ Nostalgia or Perversion: Gothic Re-writings From the Victorian to the Present Age. Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge, (forthcoming 2006)
• Raghunath, A. ‘Writing the Caribbean as a Locus of Transgression in British Literature of the 18th Century.’ Transgression and Taboo: CriticalEssays. eds., V. Messier and N. Batra, Caribbean Chapter Publication: Puerto Rico, 2005.
• Raghunath, A.  ‘Caribbean Roots of British Identity’ In Aertsen, H., Hannay, M. (eds.), Words in Their Places, pp. 103-124. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Amsterdam. 2004

Conference Papers

• 2005: "The Groans of the Plantation", paper presented at the 2005 American Comparative Literature Assoc. Penn State University. USA
• 2003: “The Caribbean Roots of Gothic Fiction”, paper presented at 27th Conference of the Centre for Caribbean Studies Warwick University. UK
• 2002: “V.S. Naipaul-A World in Tension”, paper presented at Paul Valery University Montpellier III. France.

Professional activities

A member of:

• Society of Caribbean Studies, UK
• Centre for Caribbean Research, (Warwick University, UK)
• American Comparative Literature Association, (Penn State University, USA)
• Caribbean Literature Association (University of West Indies, Jamaica)
• PAC (University of London)