People: Peter Hulme (BA Leeds, PhD Essex)

Professor

room: 5A.113
tel: 01206 872608
e-mail: phulme (non-Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create full e-mail address)
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Peter Hulme read Spanish at Leeds and took his doctorate at Essex in Literature. He has taught at Essex since 1975. He was closely involved with the various Essex Sociology of Literature projects and their many publications. His research interests centre on the relationships between literature, travelwriting, anthropology and colonialism, especially in the Caribbean, and on postcolonial studies in its widest sense.

He is the author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 (1986, paperback 1992) and Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998 (2000), and joint editor of Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day (1992), Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory (1994), Cannibalism and the Colonial World (1998), 'The Tempest'and Its Travels (2000), The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (2002), The Tempest, A Norton Critical Edition (2003), and Writing, Travel, and Empire: In the Margins of Anthropology (2006).

His current research project - supported by the AHRC - is: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography.

He would particularly welcome applications for Ph.D. theses on Caribbean literature, history, and anthropology; travel writing; and postcolonial studies.