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Exeter Centre for Research on Africa

Dr Chris Campbell

Dr Chris Campbell

Senior Lecturer
English and Creative Writing

Chris Campbell is a Lecturer in Global Literatures and his research focusses on the intersections of world literature, postcolonial theory and environmental criticism. He is particularly interested in Caribbean literature and culture, world-ecology and postcolonial ecocriticism, and histories of broadcast culture and empire. From a broader perspective his research interests include: world literature as literature of the modern world-system; literary and cultural theory; the environmental humanities, debates in modernity and modernism; colonial/postcolonial Cyprus; and west country writing.


Research supervision:

I am happy to discuss proposals on any relevant subject in my area of interest. I am especially keen to consider working with candidates with interests in the following areas:

  • world and/or postcolonial literatures and theory
  • world-systems, world-literature, world-ecology
  • Caribbean Studies
  • ecocriticism and the environmental humanities
  • Decolonization and print/broadcast cultures

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