Pod Academy

This podcast is part of our Rupture, Crisis and Transformation series looking at new perspectives in the field of US Studies, drawn from the event of the same name at Birkbeck, University of London. It is the keynote presentation  from world-renowned author Caryl Phillips. The conference organiser Anna Hartnell, explains Anna Hartnell: Caryl Phillips is a major contemporary writer whose large body of fiction and non-fiction explores  various aspects of his own Caribbean, British and now American identities.  Though coming in from a different perspective from Wai Chee Dimock [the other keynote speaker at the conference, whose presentation you can find here], he has been involved in thinking about the United States, in various de-centered ways, that are really helpful for this particular conference. Bart Moore-Gilbert: Caryl is one of the most interesting and thought-provoking writers around today. Born in the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, he was brought up in Leeds and studied Literature at Oxford before m