Bede Tregear Scott
Assistant Professor

Bede Scott is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Division of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2006.

His research and teaching interests include postcolonial literature and theory, with an emphasis on South Asian and African literature; colonial literature and narratives of empire; contemporary literature; magical realism; and narratives and theories of social violence.

He is currently working on a manuscript entitled Affective Disorders: Colonial and Postcolonial Emotion. This project explores the process by which certain sociopolitical forces give rise to dominant 'structures of feeling' within colonial and postcolonial societies. He is also editing an anthology of African and Asian decolonization theory.

His publications include 'City of Sieges: Literature, Communal Violence and Urban Space,' Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2008); 'Of Territorial Borders and Test Cricket: Exploring the Boundaries of the Postcolonial State,' Journal of Commonwealth Literature (2009); and 'Partitioning Bodies: Literature, Abduction and the State,' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2009).

Courses taught in 2009-10:

HL222 South Asian Literature

HL217 African Literature

HL221 Literature of Empire

HL808 Introduction to Magical Realism

HL7110 Form and Content in Contemporary Narrative (Graduate Seminar)