Justin D. Edwards

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Justin D. Edwards (b. 1970) is a Canadian professor in the Department of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. In 2005, he was elected by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Edwards received and M.A and Ph.D. in English from the University of Montreal, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. travel literature. Between 1995 and 2005, he taught at the University of Montreal and the University of Copenhagen, where he was appointed as an associate professor in 2002.

[edit] Gothic Literature

Edwards' contribution to the study of gothic literature started with Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic, which examines the development of U.S. gothic literature alongside 19th-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity. This book focused on the way in which writers of the period "gothicized" biracial and passing figures in order to frame them within the rubric of a demonization of difference. In Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature, he continued in the area by examining how collective stories about national identity and belonging tend to be haunted by artifice.

[edit] Post-colonialism

His work in the field of postcolonialism, growing out of his work on travel writing started with Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, which examines the place of travel writing in the rhetoric of imperial expansion and colonial ideology. In this project, he focused on representations of sexuality and eroticism in 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. travel literature to capture defining moments in the formation of an American national identity. This book led to a collaborative work compiling an anthology of Asian and African travel literature, Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing, which collects primary pieces by travel writers from Asia and Africa stretching from the fifth to the 19th centuries.

[edit] Publications

• Other Routes: 1500 Years of Travel Writing by Asians and Africans. Edited with Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Hanna Ziadeh (Signal Books 2006.)
  • Soma Basu (2006-02-05). "Different journeys and destinations". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
• Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature (University of Alberta Press 2005)
  • Melissa Moore (September/October 2005). "Book Review: Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature". Foreword Magazine.
• Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities Edited with Douglas Ivison (University of Toronto Press 2005)
  • Emily Schultz. Building to scale: The bigger could be better—if urban giants would learn from their size-small counterparts. Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
• Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (Iowa University Press 2003)
  • Jeanne Cortiel (July, 2003). "Review of Justin D. Edwards, Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic". H-Net Reviews. Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
  • Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
• Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930 (University Press of New England 2001)
  • Udo Natterman (2004-01-01). "Justin D. Edwards: Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930. (Book Review)". International Fiction Review. Retrieved on 2006-07-12.
• American Modernism Across the Arts. Edited with Jay Bochner (Peter Lang 1999)
• Justin D. Edwards (1998). "Strange Fugitive, Strange City: Reading Urban Space in Morley Callaghan's Toronto" (PDF). Studies in Canadian Literature 23 (1): 213-227. Retrieved on 2006-07-12.