Sarah Brouillette
Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
My abiding interest is in the economic and political circumstances that underpin and influence the production, circulation and reception of contemporary literature and culture. My 2007 book, Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace, described how globalizing cultural markets and transnational publishing houses influenced the emergence and reception of English-language postcolonial literatures. My more recent work, Literature and the Creative Economy (Stanford University Press), considers what ideas about the creative economy derive from historic conceptions of the work of literary authorship, as well as what contemporary writers make of the placement of their work in instrumental service to the creative economy. I am also beginning research for a sort of cultural history of neoliberalism, which will use Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as its core case.
Research Interest
Post-World War Two British, Irish, and postcolonial literatures Transnationalism and globalization Creative industries and cultural policy Print and media history
Publications
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The pathology of flexibility in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen.†Modern Fiction Studies 58.3 (2012): 529-48.
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Unesco and the Book in the Developing World.†Representations Vol. 127 (Summer 2014): 33-54.
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UNESCO and the World-Literary System in Crisis.†Amodern (Dec. 2015): http://amodern.net/article/unesco-brouillette/
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On the African Literary Hustle.†Blind Field (Aug. 2017): https://blindfieldjournal.com/2017/08/14/on-the-african-literary-hustle/
