Wendy Knepper

Prior to joining Brunel in 2010, Wendy was a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at University of London (2007-09). For her research on Patrick Chamoiseau, she was awarded a Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship (2003-05) in affiliation with Harvard University and New York University. She holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from University of Toronto.

She has taught Caribbean and twentieth-century literatures and theory at Queen Mary and Humboldt University in Berlin. In Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom, she worked for a number of years as a marketing consultant and entrepreneur in the IT sector.

Research Overview

Wendy Knepper has published research on Caribbean and postcolonial literatures, globalization, and gender studies. Her research interests include modernist literature, particularly in a transnational context. Literary experimentation, trauma theory, affect, gender, and world literary circulations are of particular interest.

Teaching Activity

Wendy Knepper teaches in the areas of modernism, postcolonial literatures, feminist and gender theory, and globalization studies.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2007) Knepper, W., Remapping the Crime Novel in the Francophone Caribbean: The Case of Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnifique, PMLA 122 (5) : 1431- 1446

(2006) Knepper, W., Colonization / Creolization / Globalization: The Art and Ruses of Bricolage, Small Axe 21 (1) : 70- 86

(1996) Knepper, W., Theme and Thesis in Le Chevalier de la Charrete, 6 (2) : 54- 68

(1996) Knepper, W., Translation Theory, Utopia and Utopianism in Paul et Virginie, Aguirre: Wrath of God, Candide and New Atlantis, Dalhousie French Studies Winter 1996 (37) : 41- 58

Book Chapters

(2013) Knepper, W., Cross-Dressing and the Caribbean Imaginary in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber. In: Ledent, B., Fumagalli, MC. and del Valle Alcala, R. eds. The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing Transvestisms. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press

(2012) Knepper, W., Caryl Phillips’ Seascapes of the Imaginary. In: Ledent, B. and Tunca, D. eds. Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life. Rodopi 213- 235

(2011) Knepper, W., How Does your Garden Grow? Jamaica Kincaid’s Spatial Praxis in My Garden(book): and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya. In: Upstone, S. and Teverson, A. eds. Postcolonial Spaces. London : Palgrave 40- 56

(2010) Knepper, W., Re-membering the Last King of Dahomey: Diasporic Desires and Black Masculinities in Les derniers rois mages and L’exil du roi Béhanzin. In: Ouzgane, L. ed. Men and Masculinities in African Film and Fiction. London : James Currey 164- 177

(2009) Knepper, W., Hot on the Heels of Transnational America: The Case of the Latina Detective. In: Pearson, N. and Singer, M. eds. Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World. Burlington : Ashgate 157- 180

(2009) Knepper, W., The Émerveille: Initiating the Warrior of the Imaginary. In: Gyssels, K., Ledent, B. and Ledent, B. eds. The Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary: L'ecrivain caribéen, guerrier de l'imaginaire. Amsterdam : Rodopi Bv Editions 51- 72

(2007) Knepper, W., Patrick Chamoiseau’s Field of Play: Fostering a New World Imaginary. In: Ousley, L. ed. To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood. -

(2007) Knepper, W., Patrick Chamoiseau’s Seascapes and the Trans-Caribbean Imaginary. In: Henke, H. and Magister, K-H. eds. Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean. Rowman & Littlefield 155- 76

(2006) Knepper, W., Confession, Autopsy and the Postcolonial Post-mortems of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. In: Matzke, C. and Muehleisen, S. eds. Postcolonial Postmortems. Editions Rodopi -

Books

(2012) Knepper, W., Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction. University of Mississippi Press

(2011) Knepper, W., Postcolonial Literature. Longman