Faculty: Laurence Breiner

Laurence Breiner
lbrei@bu.edu

Professor and Interim Chairman of the English Department; Member of the African-American Studies faculty. B.A., Boston College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale

Teaching and Research Interests: Caribbean literature, especially poetry, and post-colonial literatures; 17 th-century English literature; comparative literature

Selected Publications: Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry (2007); An Introduction to West Indian Poetry (1998); "Responsibility and Craft in the Poetry of Edward Baugh," Journal of West Indian Literature 15: 1&2 (2006); "Creole Language in the Poetry of Derek Walcott," Callaloo 28:1 (2005); "Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean," Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (2003); "How Shall the History of West Indian Literature be Told?" Journal of West Indian Literature 11:1 (2002); "'Mabrak': A Disappearing West Indian Classic?" Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34:1 (1999); "The Half-Life of Performance Poetry," Journal of West Indian Literature 8:1&2 (1998); "The Caribbean Laboratory for Cultural Studies," American Studies (Tokyo) 3 (1998); "The Eighties," West Indian Literature (1995); "Edward Kamau Brathwaite," Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Authors, Second Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography 125 (1993); "How to Behave on Paper," Journal of West Indian Literature 6:1 (1993); "Early Drama," in The Art of Derek Walcott (1991); "Italic Calvino: The Place of the Emperor in Invisible Cities," Modern Fiction Studies 34:4 (1988); "The Ambivalent Aesthetic of Eric Roach," Ariel 19:2 (1988); "The Career of the Cockatrice," Isis 70:251 (1979); "The Generation of Metaphor in Thomas Browne," Modern Language Quarterly 38:3 (1977); poems in Agni, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Commonweal

Work in Progress: Orality and Decolonization in West Indian Poetry: the Chemistry of Presence

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Visiting Professor, American Studies, University of Tokyo (2004); Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Study of Black Literature and Culture, UPenn (1991-92); ACLS Grant-in-Aid (1984); NEH Research Fellow (1980-81); ACLS/Social Science Research Council Fellow (1976-77)


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	Laurence Breiner lbrei@bu.edu Professor and Interim Chairman of the English Department; Member of the African-American Studies faculty. B.A., Boston College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale Teaching and Research Interests: Caribbean literature, especially poetry, and post-colonial literatures; 17 th-century English literature; comparative literature Selected Publications: Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry (2007); An Introduction to West Indian Poetry (1998); "Responsibility and Craft in the Poetry of Edward Baugh," Journal of West Indian Literature 15: 1&2 (2006); "Creole Language in the Poetry of Derek Walcott," Callaloo 28:1 (2005); "Caribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean," Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (2003); "How Shall the History of West Indian Literature be Told?" Journal of West Indian Literature 11:1 (2002); "'Mabrak': A Disappearing West Indian Classic?" Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34:1 (1999); "The Half-Life of Performance Poetry," Journal of West Indian Literature 8:1&2 (1998); "The Caribbean Laboratory for Cultural Studies," American Studies (Tokyo) 3 (1998); "The Eighties," West Indian Literature (1995); "Edward Kamau Brathwaite," Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Authors, Second Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography 125 (1993); "How to Behave on Paper," Journal of West Indian Literature 6:1 (1993); "Early Drama," in The Art of Derek Walcott (1991); "Italic Calvino: The Place of the Emperor in Invisible Cities," Modern Fiction Studies 34:4 (1988); "The Ambivalent Aesthetic of Eric Roach," Ariel 19:2 (1988); "The Career of the Cockatrice," Isis 70:251 (1979); "The Generation of Metaphor in Thomas Browne," Modern Language Quarterly 38:3 (1977); poems in Agni, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Commonweal Work in Progress: Orality and Decolonization in West Indian Poetry: the Chemistry of Presence Honors, Grants, and Awards: Visiting Professor, American Studies, University of Tokyo (2004); Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Study of Black Literature and Culture, UPenn (1991-92); ACLS Grant-in-Aid (1984); NEH Research Fellow (1980-81); ACLS/Social Science Research Council Fellow (1976-77)

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