Bill Schwarz, BA (York)
Reader
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8522
email: b.schwarz@qmul.ac.uk
Research interests:
• Twentieth-century Caribbean writing
• Postcolonialism
• Twentieth-century British cultural and political history
• Some aspects of historiography, cultural studies and media studies
'West Indian intellectuals in Britain' edited by Bill Schwarz
Bill Schwarz’s research focuses on postcolonial history, with particular emphasis on the end of the British empire. Most of his recent work has concentrated on Caribbean writing of the twentieth century, both fiction and non-fiction. He also works on historiographical questions concerning the theoretical underpinnings of postcolonial history, and the relations between history and memory.
Since arriving at Queen Mary in 2004 Bill Schwarz has co-organized (with Rachael Gilmour and Javed Majeed) an event ‘Celebrating African Literature’ (with readings by Chinua Achebe); a symposium on Earl Lovelace; a large international conference (co-organized with Cora Kaplan) on James Baldwin; and an evening for Stuart Hall.
He is an editor of History Workshop Journal, New Formations and Visual Culture in Britain.
Publications:
Co-editor, with Rachael Gilmour, End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945, Manchester University Press, Manchester, in press.
Memories of Empire. Vol. I Remembering Race: the white man in the empire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, in press.
Bill Schwarz (ed.), Caribbean Literature after Independence (2008)
Co-editor, with Cora Kaplan, James Baldwin. America and beyond, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, in press.
Co-editor, with Susannah Radstone, Memory: histories, theories, debates, Fordham University Press, New York, 2010, ix + 561pp.
Editor, Caribbean Literature After Independence. The case of Earl Lovelace, Institute for the Study of the Americas, London, 2008; xxii + 195pp.
Editor, The Locations of George Lamming, Warwick University Caribbean series, Macmillan, Oxford, 2007; 194pp.
Editor, West Indian Intellectuals in Britain, Studies in Imperialism series, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2003; 262 pp.
Editor, The Expansion of England. Race, ethnicity and cultural history, Routledge, London, 1996; 262pp.
Co-editor, with Mary Langan, Crises in the British State, 1880 to 1930, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Hutchinson, London, 1985; 288pp.
Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz (eds), Memory (2010)
Co-editor, with Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan and David Sutton, Making Histories. Studies in history-writing and politics, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Hutchinson, London and Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis, 1982; republished Routledge, Abingdon, 2007; 379pp.
Editor, On Ideology, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Hutchinson, London, 1978; (in Portuguese: Da Ideologia, Zahar Editores, Rio de Janeiro, 1980); republished Routledge, Abingdon, 2006; 263pp.