Mark Libin

• ENGL 2830 - Literature of Africa: Nigerian Literature
• ENGL 3550 - Bloody Sundays: Literary Representations of Northern Ireland and the Troubles
• ENGL 4630/7840 - Honours/Graduate Seminar: Working Life

My recent work has focused on British literature of the twentieth century and world literature. My main area of research focus is South African literature, particularly since 1994. I have published a book using affect theory to discuss post-apartheid South African literature and culture and am currently working on a monograph dealing with the next phase of South African literature (post-post-apartheid). My methodological bent tends to be Marxist in nature these days.

• PhD, University of Manitoba, 1999
• MA, University of Toronto, 1993
• BA, University of Calgary, 1991

Research interests

• Marxist theory
• Postcolonial theory
• Modern British literature (including Irish)
• South African literature
• Contemporary African literature

• Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa's Wounded Feelings. Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
• "'Prick-Tease of the Soul': Negative Dialectics and the Politics of Tony Harrison's v." Textual Practice 31.7 (2017): 1379-1397.
• "History and Its Doubles in Alain Mabanckou's African Psycho." Research in African Literatures 47.1 (Spring 2016): 39-56.
• "Marking Territory: Rawi Hage's Novels and Postcolonial Ethics." English Studies in Canada 39.4 (December 2013): 71-90.