{"id":6333,"date":"2018-08-28T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6333"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:52:57","slug":"laurence-breiner","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/profile\/laurence-breiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurence Breiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For CV\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/files\/2017\/09\/BREINER-vita1.doc\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Teaching and Research Interests<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"facultystripe\">\n<li>Caribbean literature, especially poetry and drama<\/li>\n<li>Post-colonial literatures<\/li>\n<li>Seventeenth-century English literature; comparative literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Selected Publications<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"facultystripe\">\n<li><em>Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry (2008)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>An Introduction to West Indian Poetry<\/em> (1998)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cResponsibility and Craft in the Poetry of Edward Baugh,\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of West Indian Literature<\/em> 15: 1 &amp; 2 (2006)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCreole Language in the Poetry of Derek Walcott,\u201d\u00a0<em>Callaloo<\/em> 28:1 (2005)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCaribbean Voices on the Air: Radio, Poetry, and Nationalism in the Anglophone Caribbean,\u201d\u00a0<em>Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture<\/em> (2003)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow Shall the History of West Indian Literature be Told?\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of West Indian Literature <\/em>11:1 (2002)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018Mabrak\u2019: A Disappearing West Indian Classic?\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of Commonwealth Studies<\/em> 34:1 (1999)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Half-Life of Performance Poetry,\u201d\u00a0<em>Journal of West Indian Literature<\/em> 8:1 &amp; 2 (1998)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Caribbean: Laboratory for Cultural Studies,\u201d\u00a0<em>American Studies <\/em>(Tokyo) 3 (1998)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Eighties,\u201d\u00a0<em>West Indian Literature<\/em> (1995)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEdward Kamau Brathwaite,\u201d <em>Twentieth-Century Caribbean and Black African Authors, Second Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography <\/em>125 (1993)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow to Behave on Paper,\u201d <em>Journal of West Indian Literature<\/em> 6:1 (1993)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEarly Drama,\u201d <em>The Art of Derek Walcott <\/em>(1991)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cItalic Calvino: The Place of the Emperor in\u00a0<em>Invisible Cities<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0<em>Modern Fiction Studies<\/em> 34:4 (1988)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Ambivalent Aesthetic of Eric Roach,\u201d\u00a0<em>Ariel<\/em> 19:2 (1988)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Career of the Cockatrice,\u201d\u00a0<em>Isis<\/em> 70:251 (1979)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Generation of Metaphor in Thomas Browne,\u201d\u00a0<em>Modern Language Quarterly<\/em> 38:3 (1977)<\/li>\n<li>poems in\u00a0<em>Agni<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Paris Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Partisan Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Commonweal<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Work in Progress<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"facultystripe\">\n<li><em>Orality and Decolonization in West Indian Poetry: the Chemistry of Presence<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Honors, Grants, and Awards<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"facultystripe\">\n<li>Visiting Professor, American Studies, University of Tokyo (2004)<\/li>\n<li>Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Study of Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania (1991\u201392)<\/li>\n<li>ACLS Grant-in-Aid (1984)<\/li>\n<li>NEH Research Fellow (1980\u201381)<\/li>\n<li>ACLS\/Social Science Research Council Fellow (1976\u201377)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":12176,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6333\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}