Anne W. Gulick
Assistant Professor
Office: 319 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-7198
agulick@mailbox.sc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D, Duke University, 2008
Specialization Areas
- Caribbean literature
- African literature
- Postcolonial theory
- Diaspora studies
- Literature and law
- Human rights studies
Recent Courses
See Course Descriptions for detailed information.
- ENGL 282: Introduction to Fiction: Imaginative Encounters with the Unknown
- ENGL 391/CPLT 302: Great Books of the Western World II
Current Research Project(s)
I am interested in thinking about how literary works from Africa and the Caribbean challenge us to think critically and creatively about the idea of the law, of international community, and of global justice. I am intrigued by a question posed by Bruce Robbins – What if we were to think of international law as one of many “internationalisms,” all incomplete and imperfect? – and want to think about what it would mean to examine the “internationalism” of international law, particularly human rights law, alongside black internationalist movements of the mid- and late twentieth century. Aimé Césaire, C.L.R. James and Ngugi wa Thiong’o are three authors who have thus far been central to how I think about these issues.
Recent Publications
- Forthcoming: "A Universal Rich in All Its Particulars: Aimé Césaire's Negitude and Human Rights." (Accepted for publication, Senghor Colloquium, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 2006.)
- “We Are Not the People: The 1805 Haitian Constitution’s Challenge to Political Legibility in the Age of Revolution.” Special Issue, American Literature 78.4, ed. Kathryn McKee and Annette Trefzer (December 2006): 799-820.
- With Greg Berman, “Just the (Unwieldy, Hard to Gather But Nonetheless Essential) Facts, Ma'am: What We Know and Don't Know About Problem-Solving Courts.” Fordham Urban Law Journal 30.3 (March 2003).
- In Progress: "C.L.R. James, Revolution as Reappearance, and Mid-Twentieth Century Internationalisms." (Invited submission for a collection of essays on the Black and Green Atlantics, edited by David Lloyd and Peter O'Neill.)