John C. Ball
BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
John C. Ball is interested in contemporary postcolonial and Canadian literatures, particularly fiction, as well as postcolonial theory, cultural geography, urban fiction, historical fiction, and creative writing. He is co-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature and the author of two books: Satire and the Postcolonial Novel: V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie (Routledge, 2003) and Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis (University of Toronto Press, 2004); he has also edited the World Fiction volume of the forthcoming three-volume Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (Blackwell, 2010). He has published articles and book chapters on David Dabydeen, Jamaica Kincaid, Hanif Kureishi, Robert Kroetsch, Yann Martel, V.S. Naipaul, Kate Pullinger, Salman Rushdie, Maurice Sendak, M.G. Vassanji, and Derek Walcott, among others. His current research explores postcolonial representations of oceans and sea voyages. A former Director of Graduate Studies and lifelong theatre practitioner, he has supervised or co-supervised more than twenty graduate theses at UNB, both in his academic fields and in creative writing. Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
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Office: Carleton Hall 327
Phone: (506) 458-7409
