H. Adlai Murdoch
Office: 2090L FLB
Phone: 244-2720
Email: hmurdoch@illinois.edu
H. Adlai Murdoch is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Literature 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 postcolonial studies, with a special interest in narrative theory and,more particularly, the narratives of the Francophone Caribbean.
Professor Murdoch's articles have appeared in Callaloo, Yale French Studies, Research in African Literatures, Sites and the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, as well as a number of scholarly collections. His monograph Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel, as well as the essay collection Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies, co-edited with Anne Donadey, are both available from the University Press of Florida. He is also the co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Caribbean Literatures entitled "Migrations and Métissages," of a special double issue of the International Journal of Francophone Studies entitled "Oceanic Dialogues: From the Black Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific," of a special three-volume issue of the International Journal of Francophone Studies entitled "Departmentalization at Sixty: The French DOMs and the Paradoxes of the Periphery," and of a special issue of the International Journal of Francophone Studies entitled "Oceanic Routes," as well as of a forthcoming special commemorative issue of Research in African Literatures devoted to Aimé Césaire. He has two forthcoming monographs, one entitled Patrick Chamoiseau and the other entitled Decolonizing Representation: Migratory Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film.
Publications Include:
Books
Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies
Co-Editor with Anne Donadey ; University Press of Florida, 2005.
Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel.
University Press of Florida, 2001.
Awards
Nominated for the CVI Gordon K. Lewis Award, 2002
Nominated for the MLA Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, 2002.
Edited Works
Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies
Co-Editor with Anne Donadey ; University Press of Florida, 2005.
Journal of Caribbean Literatures
Co-Editor with Pascale DeSouza, Special Issue, "Migrations and Métissages." Vol IV, no1, in press, 2005.
C.L.R. James Journal
Co-Editor with Paget Henry, Special Issue, "Jamaica Kincaid," forthcoming 2006.
International Journal of Francophone Studies
Co-Editor with Pascale DeSouza, Special Double Issue, "Oceanic Dialogues: From the Black Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific," 8 (2), 8 (3), 2005.
International Journal of Francophone Studies
Special three-volume issue: "Departmentalization at Sixty: The French
DOMs and the Paradoxes of the Periphery," 11 (1-3), 2008. Co-edited with
Jane Kuntz.
Articles
"Re-Viewing Black Studies: Articulating Identity from Diaspora: A Response to Alexander Weheliye." In American Literary History, 20, 1-2 (2008).
"Making Frenchness Plural: How France Contends with its 'Others'." Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 5:2, Autumn/Winter 2007, 41-68. Special Issue: "France in a Postcolonial Europe: Identity, History, Memory."
"All Skin' Teeth is not Grin": Performing Caribbean Diasporic Identity in a Postcolonial Metropolitan Frame." Callaloo: "Callaloo and the Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora: A Special Thirtieth Anniversary Issue." Vol. 30, no. 2: Spring, 2007, 575-93.
"Traversing the Caribbean Basin: Hybridities and Transformations." Revista Brasileira do Caribe: Revista do Centro de Estudos no Brasil. Vol. 5, no. 10, Jan/Jun 2005, 341-52.
"Placing Pointe-à-Pitre in Paris: Diaspora and Francophone Caribbean Postcolonial Identity." In a special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies, "Black Paris," vol. 5, no. 3, Winter 2005, (special issue), 101-13.
"Re-Citing Creole Boundaries: Caribbean Nomadism in Condé and Walcott." Revi Kiltir Kreol no.2, February 2003 , 7-18.
"Writing India in the West Indies: Indo-Caribbean Inscriptions in Trinidad and Guadeloupe." The CLR James Journal , vol. 9, no. 1, Winter 2002-03 , 116-46.
"Rhys's Pieces: Unhomeliness as Arbiter of Caribbean Creolization." Callaloo 26, 1 (Winter 2003), 252-72.
"Ghosts in the Mirror: Colonialism and Creole Indeterminacy in Brontë and Sand." College Literature 29, 1, Winter 2002 , 1-31.
"Giving Women Voice: Alienation and Communication in Ton Beau Capitaine ." Oeuvres et critiques 26, 1 (Spring 2001), 134-43. Special issue: "Le théâtre noir francophone."
"Re-siting Resistance: Chamoiseau's Articulation of Creole Identity." Sites: The Journal of 20th Century/Contemporary French Studies . 3: 2, Fall 1999 , 315-31. Special Issue: Writing in French in the '90s.
Exploring the Margin: Models of Cultural Identity in the Postcolonial French Caribbean." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 6:1, Spring 1999, 153-84. Special issue on Caribbean Literature.
"Divided Desire: Biculturality and the Representation of Identity in En attendant le bonheur." Callaloo 18,3, Summer 1995, 579-92. Special issue on Maryse Condé.
Book Chapters
"European Caribbean Communities: Articulating Diaspora and Identity." In Afroeuropeans: Cultures and Identities. Marta Sofia Lopez, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 12-26.
"Being Haitian in New York: Migration and Transnationalism in Edwige Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory." Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and Martin Munro (eds). Echoes of the Haitian Revolution, 1804-2004. Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies Press, 148-62 (in press, 2008).
"Creole Counterdiscourses and French Departmental Hegemony: Reclaiming 'Here' from 'There'." In Race, Coloniality, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean., eds Jerome Branche and Elizabeth Monasterios. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 348-81 (in press, 2008).
"Border Crossings: Francophonie, Postcolonialism, and Caribbean/African Studies." In African Literatures at the Millennium. Arthur Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka and I. Peter Ukpokodu, eds. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007, 300-07.
"Creolizing the Post/colonial Terrain: Pluralism and Cultural Performance in the Contemporary Caribbean." In Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, and African Studies. Zine Magubane, ed. (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2001).
"Negotiating the Metropole:Patterns of Exile and Cultural Survival in Pineau and Dracius-Pinalie." In Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France. Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx, eds. Greenwood Press, 2001.
"Performing Caribbean Creolization: Strategies of Migrant Subjectivity in Glissant and Walcott." Forthcoming in Postcolonial Diasporas: Displacement, Hybridity, and the Nation, Samir Dayal, ed.
"Postcolonial Peripheries Revisited: Chamoiseau's Rewriting of Francophone Culture." In French Prose in 1999, Michael Bishop and Christopher Elson, eds. (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001)
"Inscribing Caribbean Oraliture: The Polysemic Discourse of Patrick Chamoiseau." In Multiculturalism and Hybridity in African Literatures. Selected Proceedings from the 1998 African Literature Association Conference. Hal Wylie and Bernth Lindfors, eds. (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2000).
"Narrating Creole Culture: Strategies of Selfhood in the French Caribbean Novel." In Migrating Words and Worlds: Pan-Africanism Updated. Selected Proceedings from the 1996 African Literature Association Conference. Hurley, Larrier, and McLaren, eds. (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1999)