Brett St Louis

Biography

Brett has extensive experience of coordinating undergraduate admissions and is committed to widening participation and supporting the entrance of ‘non-traditional’ students with academic potential into higher education. Brett is currently Director of Undergraduate Programmes within the department and teach on all three years of undergraduate study and contributes to the first year courses ‘Critical Readings: The Emergence of the Sociological Imagination’ and ‘Modern Knowledge/Modern Power’, co-convene Brett St Louis rejoined the department in 2005 having previously been at Goldsmiths in 1999-2000. In the intervening years, Brett was Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol and Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Research Interest

Race, ethnicity and racism; black/postcolonial radical intellectualism; sport in relation to race and racism and culture and aesthetics. Brett St Louis' research interests crystallise around three intellectual agendas: the conceptual and practical status of race, especially in relation to the epistemological, ontological, political and ethical formations of racial eliminativism; the possibilities of progressive left politics with regard to building affirmative, emancipatory political projects; sociology of sport in relation to i) the methodologies of bio-cultural racial description and explanation as articulated through a rhetoric of culturalist racism and ii) the cultural and aesthetic significance of sport as an enchanted popular art form. Brett is an editorial board member of new formations and Ethnic and Racial Studies journals.