Adlai Murdoch - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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.