Phil Langran BA (Hons) English (North London); PGCE in Further Education (Huddersfield); PhD (Leeds)

Position:
Senior Lecturer in English and American Studies

Teaching:
Phil currently teaches units in Postcolonial Studies and American Studies. He has taught extensively in English, including units on modernism and postmodernism, drama as text and performance, and contemporary fiction.

Research:
Phil’s research and publication work has been in postcolonial literature, with a special interest in Indian and Caribbean fiction in English. He has participated in the recent development of American Studies at Lincoln, and is currently researching representations of the southern states of the USA in fiction, film and drama and would be happy to discuss applications from prospective research students with interests in these areas.

Publications

‘An Unlucky Child: Superstition and Mr Biswas’, Commonwealth, Vol 6, No 1, 1983.

‘V S Naipaul: A Question of Detachment’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol 25, No 1, 1990.

Annual essay on Indian writing in English, Year’s Work in English Studies, Vols 72-81, 1991-2000 (published 1993-2003).

Chapter on Indian writing in English, Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (published on CD-Rom), 1997, plus updates for 1998 and 1999.

‘Earl Lovelace and V S Naipaul: Representations of Trinidad’, The Literary Criterion, Vol 35, Nos 1 and 2, 2000 (also published in book form as The Continuing Vitality of West Indian Literature, ed. H C Wyatt, Dhvanyaloka Publications, 2000).