Professor Chris Bongie

PhD Stanford

Graduate Co-ordinator

Contact Information

Office: Watson 426

Office Hours:

Extension: 74497

E-mail: bongiec@queensu.ca

To contact regarding Graduate Program questions:

Graduate Studies Office

Office: Watson 410

Office Hours: Wed. 1:00–5:00

Extension: 74410

E-mail: gradengl@queensu.ca

Research Interests

Caribbean literature, Victorian literature, modernism, colonial discourse, postcolonial theory, nineteenth-century French literature, Francophone literature.

Recent Publications

• Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature (Liverpool UP, 2008).
• Editor of Adonis, suivi de Zoflora et de documents inédits, by Jean-Baptiste Picquenard (L’Harmattan 2006). Critical edition of the first two novels about the Haitian Revolution.
• “ ‘Monotonies of History’: Baron de Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott’s Haitian Trilogy,” Yale French Studies (2005).
• “Victor Hugo and the ‘Cause of Humanity’: Translating Bug-Jargal (1826) into The Slave-King (1833),” The Translator (2005).
• Editor and translator of Bug-Jargal, by Victor Hugo (Broadview 2004). Critical edition and translation of Victor Hugo’s second novel.

Remarks

Author of three monographs: Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle (Stanford UP 1991), Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature (Stanford UP 1998), and Friends and Enemies: The Scribal Politics of Post/Colonial Literature (Liverpool UP, 2008). Courses taught at Queen’ since 2002 include graduate seminars on the marketing of postcolonial literature, Black British literature, photography and adaptation theory (in seminars on late Victorian literature and Britain in the 1950s, respectively), as well as undergraduate classes on literary theory, postcolonial literatures, and the Victorians.

Last modified on 21/09/2009