Peter Kalliney

PhD, English

University of Michigan


Department of English

Office: 1261 POT
Phone: 257-6964






Areas of Specialty:

  • Twentieth-Century British Literature
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • Literary Theory and Globalization
  • Cultural Studies

Selected Publications:

  • Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness. University of Virginia Press. Expected publication: December, 2006.
  • "Metropolitan Modernism and its West Indian Interlocutors: 1950s London and the Emergence of Postcolonial Literature." PMLA, January 2007.
  • "Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic Verses," Modern Fiction Studies 48: 50-82. Part of special issue, "Postmodernism and the Globalization of English," ed. Michael Bérubé.
  • "Cities of Affluence: Masculinity, Class, and the Angry Young Men," Modern Fiction Studies 47: 92-117.