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Dr Lorna Burns

Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2675

Email

lmb21@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 203

Location

Kennedy Hall

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Teaching

Culture and Conflict

Postcolonial Literatures and Theory

Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature

Caribbean Literature

MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Culture

MLitt in Postcolonial and World Literatures

Research areas

Lorna’s research interests lie in postcolonial literatures and theory, contemporary world literature and continental philosophy, focussing, in particular on the points of intersection between literature and philosophy. Her most recent monograph,ÌýPostcolonialism After World Literature: Relation, Equality, DissentÌý(Bloomsbury 2019), explores a wide range of contemporary writers (Roberto Bolaño, J. M. Coetzee, Kamel Daoud, Dany Laferrière, Pauline Melville, Arundhati Roy and Kamila Shamsie) in relation to the philosophies of Bruno Latour, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière in order to argue the case for rethinking world literature in light of the legacies of postcolonialism and for reshaping postcolonial studies in an era of world literature. Ìý

She is also the author of Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-continental Philosophy (Continuum, 2012), andÌýis co-editor of the collectionÌýWorld Literature and DissentÌý(forthcoming, Routledge 2019),ÌýPostcolonial Literatures and DeleuzeÌý(Palgrave 2012), and a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing on the author Wilson Harris. She has writtenÌýnumerous articles on Caribbean writing, postcolonialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and theories of world literature that have appeared in journals such asÌýAngelaki, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Deleuze Studies andÌýTextual Practice.

Current research projects are focused on rights, recognition and the role of equality and inequality in postcolonial literature and theory. Drawing on the philosophy of Jacques Rancière, current work considers how a focus on the demonstration of equality in postcolonial writing offers an alternative to the poststructuralist lexicon of difference. In addition, current work continues to explore the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the context of globalization, postcolonialism and theories of world literature.

Lorna’s research interests span the fields of postcolonial literatures and theory; Caribbean literatures; contemporary global writing in English; continental philosophy; and critical theory. She welcomes graduate students who share any of her research interests.

PhD supervision

• ConnorÌýMcgrath
• EstherÌýZitterl

Selected publications

• Burns, L., 16 May 2019, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 255 p. (New horizons in contemporary writing)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Burns, L. M., 2012, London and New York: Continuum. 223 p. (Continuum Literary Studies)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Burns, L. M. (Editor) & Muth, K. R. (Editor), Sept 2019, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Burns, L. M., 2016, Beyond Calypso: Re-reading Samuel Selvon. McIntosh, M. (ed.). Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Burns, L. M. & Knepper, W., 3 May 2013, In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 49, 2, p. 127–132 1.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Burns, L. M., 3 May 2013, In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 49, 2, p. 174–186

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Burns, L. M., 2012, Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze: Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures. Burns, L. & Kaiser, B. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 144 164 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Burns, L. M., 6 Jan 2011, In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 47, 1, p. 52-64

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Burns, L. M., 2011, The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Bucknor, M. & Donnell, A. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 181 190 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Open access
  Burns, L. M., Mar 2010, In: Deleuze Studies. 4, 1, p. 16-41

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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