Graham MacPhee

Graham MacPhee
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department: English
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: GMacPhee@wcupa.edu

Research Interests

British LiteratureEnglishPostcolonial StudiesCultural Theory

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

Graham MacPhee is Assistant Professor of English at West Chester University. He is the author of The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture (Continuum, 2nd edn, 2007) and co-editor, with Prem Poddar, of Empire and After: Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective (Berghahn, 2007).

List of Publications

  • Europe and Violence: Some Contemporary Reflections on Walter Benjamin's "Theories of German Fascism", In Translating Nations, edited by Prem Poddar, Aarhus University Press, 1999 On the Incompleteness of History: Benjamin's Arcades Project and the Optic of Historiography Textual Practice, Jan 1, 2000 Glass Before its Time, Premature Iron: the Unforeseeable Futures of Technology in Benjamin's Arcades Project, New Formations, no.54, Dec 1, 2004 From Reproduction to Reproducibility: Creativity and Technics in Benjamin and Arendt, Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, Apr 1, 2006 Introduction to special issue "Arendt, Politics, and Culture": Culture and Political Community, College Literature 38.1, Jan 15, 2011 What Becomes of the Subject?, College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, Apr 15, 2014 “What the World Looks Like”: On Banality and Spectacle, College Literature, 2016 Outside In: Refugees and Arendt's Agonistic Polity, Humanity Journal Blog, 2019 Benjamin Zephaniah: Popular Poetics Against Populism, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature, 2020

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