Lorna Burns

Biography

Lorna Burns received an MA (hons) of the first class in English Literature and Politics from the University of Glasgow where she also completed her PhD on the subject of creolisation in Caribbean literatures and postcolonial theory. Before joining St Andrews Lorna was a Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln and she is a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, where she pursued a research project entitled 'Caribbean Enlightenment'.

Research Interest

Lorna's research interests lie in postcolonial literatures and theory, contemporary world literature and continental philosophy. Her work focuses on the points of intersection between literature and philosophy, and she is the author of Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-continental Philosophy (Continuum, 2012), as well as numerous articles on Caribbean writing, postcolonialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and theories of world literature. Current research projects are focused on the influence of postcolonialism on theories of world literature. Exploring the place of dissent in a global range of contemporary writers, her research seeks to explore the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the context of globalization, postcolonialism and theories of world literature. Lorna’s research interests span the fields of postcolonial literatures and theory; comparative Caribbean literatures; twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black British and British Asian writing; global writing in English; continental philosophy; and critical theory. She welcomes graduate students who share any of her research interests.