Christian Campbell (born 1979) is a Trinidadian-Bahamian poet, essayist and cultural critic who has lived in the Caribbean, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.[1] Trained as an academic, he was an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.
Christian Campbell | |
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| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) |
| Education | Queen's College Secondary School; Macalester College |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford University Duke University |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, essayist, critic |
| Years active | 2010–present |
Education and career edit
Christian Campbell was born in The Bahamas of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage.[2] He went to Queen's College Secondary School, graduating at the age of 15, and attended Macalester College on scholarship, graduating at the age of 19.[3] He went on to earn an M.Phil. in Modern British Literature from Balliol College, Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and then an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Duke University.[4]
He was an Assistant Professor of English at the English department of University of Toronto, where in 2010 he invited Nobel Prize Laureate Derek Walcott.[5] Campbell's teaching and research interests comprised Caribbean Literature; Black Diaspora Literatures and Cultures; Cultural Studies/Popular Culture; Poetry/Poetics; Postcolonial Theory; Creative Writing.[6]
Campbell represented The Bahamas at the Cultural Olympiad's Poetry Parnassus in 2012 at the Southbank Centre in London.[7][8]
Writing edit
In 2010, Campbell won the best first collection prize at the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk for his Running the Dusk (Peepal Tree Press, 2010).[9] Furthermore, the work was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Cave Canem Prize and the Guyana Prize for Literature.[5] Publications in which his work has been published, featured or reviewed include The New York Times, The Guardian, Small Axe, Callaloo, The Financial Times, The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature,[4] and New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology (2007, edited by Kei Miller).[10]
Personal life edit
Of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage,[11] Campbell has lived in the Caribbean, the US, the UK and in Canada. He describes himself as "a nomad that comes from nomads".[5]
Works edit
- Running the Dusk (2010), Peepal Tree Press. Translated into Spanish as Correr el Crepúsculo (Cuba: Ediciones Santiago).[4]
References edit
- ^ "Erasing Basquiat: Lecture by Christian Campbell", Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, University of Pittsburgh, 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Christian Campbell, Bahamian Poet - Caribbean Born", CAHFT TV, 17 June 2011.
- ^ Ricardo P. Deveaux, "Christian Campbell", Bahamian History Highlights, 28 February 2014.
- ^ a b c "Christian Campbell", Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences.
- ^ a b c "Christian Campbell". Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "Campbell". English.utoronto.ca. 13 January 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ "University of Toronto: Interview with Professor Christian Campbell" (YouTube video), 22 June 2012.
- ^ Holly Bynoe, "Bahamian Poets Heads to 2012 Olympics in London", ARC Magazine, 31 May 2012.
- ^ Benedicte Page (5 November 2010). "Christian Campbell takes Aldeburgh first collection prize for poetry | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ Lisa Allen-Agostini, "'I must make trouble for the nation'", Caribbean Review of Books, No. 22, July 2010.
- ^ "Christian Campbell" at Lannan.