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Philip Kaisary

Professor of Law, English, and Comparative Literary Studies

• M.A. (B.A.) Hons. Eng. Lit., Edinburgh; M.A. Eng. Lit. (Postcolonial Studies), Sussex; Ph.D. Eng. & Comp. Lit., Warwick; G. Dip. Law, Oxford Brookes; G. Dip. Legal Practice, OXILP. Registered Solicitor of England & Wales (non-practising)
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 is Professor of Law and Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies. He holds appointments in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University.

He works in Caribbean and Latin American studies; legal, literary, and cultural theory; human rights; critical social theory; world literary studies; ‘Law, Culture, and the Humanities’; and ‘Law and Literature’. His publications include  (SUNY Press, 2024) and  (University of Virginia Press, 2014). A Spanish-language edition of From Havana to Hollywood is forthcoming with Ediciones ICAIC. His next book, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, is titled, Worlding Law and Literature: A Materialist Critique and Reconstruction. 

Selected Publications

Books

De La Habana a Hollywood: la lucha de los esclavos en el imaginario cinematográfico. Trans. Aida Bahr. (Forthcoming, Ediciones ICAIC). (Spanish-language edition of From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary.)

, (SUNY Press, 2024).

, (University of Virginia Press, 2014).

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

 Journal of African Cultural Studies, February (2025): 1–16.

“The Slave Narrative and Filmic Aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and Colonial Violence,” in: , ed. Thomas Austin, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 2023): 78-95.

“Langston Hughes and the Haitian Revolution,” in: , eds. Vera Kutzinski & Anthony Reed, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022): 129–139.

“Socioeconomic Rights and the Haitian Revolution,” in: , eds. Charles Walton & Steven Jenson, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022): 82–98.

“The Haitian Revolution and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s La última cena (The Last Supper, 1976),” in: , ed. Vanessa K. Valdés, (Albany: SUNY University Press, 2020): 113–133.

(Co-author with Prof. Mariana Past.) Atlantic Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, (2020): 260–280.

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association. No. 23, (2019): 22–32.

“‘To break our chains and form a free people’: Race, Nation, and Haiti’s Imperial Constitution of 1805,” in: , eds. Whitney Stewart and John Garrison Marks, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018): 71–88.

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Vol. 42, No. 2, (2017): 94–114.

(Co-author with Prof. Julia Gaffield.) Slavery & Abolition. Vol. 38, No. 1, (2017): 155–177.

, Vol. 12, No. 4, (2015): 393–411.

, Vol. 6, No. 2, (2012): 197–216.