H. Adlai Murdoch, Associate Professor
Contact
African American Studies and French
2090L Foreign Languages Building
707 S. Mathews
Urban, Illinois 61801
217.244.2720
hmurdoch@illinois.edu
Biography
H. Adlai Murdoch is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Literature and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, he holds degrees from the University of the West Indies, Howard University, and Cornell University, where he completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Romance Studies.His particular areas of scholarly interest are French Literature and cross-cultural issues of postcolonialism and diaspora, with a special interest in the migration and diasporic narratives of the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean.
His articles have appeared in Callaloo, Yale French Studies, SubStance, Research in African Literatures, Sites, the Journal of Romance Studies and the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, as well as a number of scholarly collections. He has co-edited several journal special issues, and his single-authored monograph Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel and co-edited essay collection Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies were recently published by the University of Florida Press.