University of Maryland, College Park, PhD., 1999

Interests

Postcolonial Studies, Ecocritical & Environmental Studies, Diaspora and Indigenous Studies, Globalization Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Literatures, Pacific Island Literatures, Critical Race and Gender Studies

Selected Publications

“Globalizing  the Routes of Breadfruit and Other Bounties.” Journal of Colonialism and  Colonial History. 8:3 (Winter 2008): [Link]

Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific  Island Literatures.(U of Hawai’i Press, 2007). [Link]
Introduction: [PDF]

Caribbean  Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. (Introduced and co-edited with  Renée Gosson and George Handley. U of Virginia Press, 2005.) [Link] [PDF]

Additional Information

Professor DeLoughrey joined the English Department in 2008. Her scholarship has been supported by institutions such as the NEH, Rockefeller, UCLA Global Studies Program, Fulbright, and the Cornell Society for the Humanities. She is currently co-editing a volume on postcolonial ecologies and completing a manuscript entitled Tropics of Globalization, which traces the exchange of plants and commodities between the Caribbean and Pacific Islands and their literary representations.  This year she is one of the departmental co-organizers of the Mellon Foundation’s Cultural Pre-history of Environmentalism Project.

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