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
