Biography

Justin D Edwards is Research Professor of English. He has held research fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge (2005-6) and Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in 2010. He is the author of several books, including Mobility at Large (2012), Postcolonial Literature (2008), Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (2005), Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (2003) and Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature (2001). He is also the coeditor of Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (2006), Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (2005), Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations (2010) and Pop Goth: Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture (2012).

Research Interests

Gothic Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Writing, Travel Writing, American and Canadian Literature

Publications

BOOKS

Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality, Travel Writing. Manuscript complete; under consideration, University of Michigan Press.

PopGoth: Gothic in Contemporary Popular Culture. Co-edited with Agnieszka Monnet. Under contract: Routledge, forthcoming in 2012.

Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations. Co-edited with Rune Graulund. Palgrave Macmillian, 2010.

Postcolonial Literature: An Essential Guide to Criticism. Palgrave Macmillian, 2008.

Understanding Jamaica Kincaid. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.

Other Routes: 1500 Years of Travel Writing by Asians and Africans. Edited with Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Hanna Ziadeh, and with a Preface by Amitav Ghosh. Bloomington: Indiana University Press and Oxford: Signal Books, 2006.

Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities. Co-edited with Douglas Ivison.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2005. Shortlisted for ‘Best Scholarly Book,’ Alberta Book Awards 2006.

Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 2003.

Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2001.

American Modernism Across the Arts. Co-edited with Jay Bochner. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999; paperback edition, 2002.

Scholarly Articles (since 2000)

“‘Between somewhere and elsewhere’: Sugar, Slate and Postcolonial Travel Writing.” Comparative American Studies (Spring 2010): 21-35.

“Usher’s Afterlives; or, Textual Travels with Poe.” Poe Studies 43 (Spring 2010): 100-9.

“Unspeakable Crimes: Charles Brockden Brown’s Memoirs of Stephen Calvert and the Rights of the Accused.” Law and Literature 21.2 (Spring 2009): 214-33.

“Jamaica Kincaid” in African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 327-30.

“Introduction: Writing the Canadian City” (with Douglas Ivison).  Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities. Edited by Edwards and Ivison. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 3-14.

“Epilogue” (with Douglas Ivison). Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities. Edited by Edwards and Ivison. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 197-209.

“Nordicities; or, the American City in Canada.” The Contours of Transnational America.  Eds. Russell Duncan and Clara Juncker. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004.  78-99.

“Engendering a New Republic: Charles Brockden Brown’s Alcuin, Carwin and the Legal Fictions of Identity.” Nordic Journal of English Studies 2.2 (Fall 2003): 279-302.

“‘It is the race instinct!’: Eugenics and Racial Ambiguity in William Dean Howells’s Fiction” Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature, 1880-1940.  Ed. Lois Cuddy.  Bucknell: Bucknell University Press, 2003. 23-35.

“Djuna Barnes and the Urban Travel Narrative.”  Journal of Urban History 29.1 (November 2002): 6-24.

“The Triumphal Golden Arches; or, McDonald’s and the Glocalization of Fast Food.” Angles on the English Speaking World (Copenhagen) 2.2 (2002): 27-36.

“Polynesian Paradises: Explorations in the Hollywood Island Drama.”  American Studies in Scandinavia 33.1 (2001): 12-25.

“Going Native in Robert Kroetsch’s Gone Indian.”  Studies in Canadian Literature 26.1 (2001): 84-97.