Law and Literature in the Global South: A conversation with David Babcock and Peter Leman
èצӰÏñ Global Studies Division
Law and Literature in the Global South's next event will take place via Zoom on Thursday, May 11 at 12:00 noon (Pacific).
This conversation on the state of the interdiscipline will feature David Babcock and Peter Leman, who edited a special issue of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies on . Babcock and Leman will provide an analysis of their special issue, engage in discussion on methods of law and literature in/from the Global South, and offer ample time for Q-and-A.
The following week, we will host our last event of the academic year as part of the Caribbean Studies Symposium. Tao Leigh Goffe and Eddie Bruce-Jones will present "Mangrove as Caribbean Method in Two Acts." The zoom link will go out as the event approaches.
About our speakers
David Babcock is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty of the African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center at James Madison University, specializing in 20th and 21st century global anglophone literature. He is currently completing a book manuscript on how anglophone novels imagine the work of professionals in postcolonial and globalizing contexts, and beginning a second project on secular spaces as imagined in postcolonial literature and law. His work has appeared in PMLA, Cultural Critique, JALA, Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora, Novel, and Contemporary Literature.
Peter Leman is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty member in Africana Studies at BYU. He specializes in 20th and 21st century Global Anglophone and Postcolonial literatures, with particular interests in Anglophone African literature, Northern Irish literature, law and literature, colonial and postcolonial legal history, and fictions of emergency and dictatorship. Leman received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine in 2011. He is the author of Singing the Law: Oral Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity in East Africa (2020). His work has also appeared in Research in African Literatures, Law and Literature, Text & Presentation, Interventions, ARIEL, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, NOVEL, James Joyce Quarterly, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.
Law and Literature in the Global South is a workshop in èצӰÏñ Global Studies that is run by Prof. Héctor Hoyos and Joseph Wager.
Feel free to reach out with any questions: jbwager [at] stanford.edu (jbwager[at]stanford[dot]edu)