Alumnus, English and Comparative Literary Studies
Thesis Title: Doctoral thesis on "The Literary Impact of the Haitian Revolution"
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Benita Parry
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About
Philip Kaisary graduated from Edinburgh University in English Literature, from Sussex University with an MA in Postcolonial Studies, and he received his Ph.D from Warwick University in English and Comparative Literary Studies. His Ph.D supervisor was Benita Parry and his dissertation focused on the literary impact of the Haitian Revolution. Philip is currently revising his dissertation for publication.
On the completion of his Ph.D, Philip attended Oxford Brookes University school of law and he was awarded an Inns of Court Lord Haldane Scholarship. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Law, a post-graduate diploma in legal practice, and he will qualify as a registered solicitor in August 2012.
His research interests are interdisciplinary and range across the fields of legal and literary studies, human rights, and black Atlantic studies.
Particular research interests include: critical legal studies; postcolonial legal studies; the legal history of slavery and anti-slavery; race, gender, and law; law and literature; Third World Approaches to International Law; and criminal law (especially the history and sociology of punishment).
Philip was previously a postgraduate teaching fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University.









