Field-Of-Study: Literary Criticism

Joseph Slaughter teaches and publishes in the fields of postcolonial literature and theory, African, Caribbean, and Latin American literatures, postcolonialism, narrative theory, human rights, and twentieth-century ethnic and third world literatures. His many publications include articles on the narrative foundations of human rights in Human Rights Quarterly, "Humanitarian Reading" in Humanitarianism and Suffering, torture and

I focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. My book, The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel (Oxford UP, 2003), attends in particular to the interdisciplinary study of law and literature. I am also the editor of Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu (Penguin, 2006). Currently, I am working on a book-length manuscript