Dominic Davies
Academic Position:
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
Colonial and post-colonial literature
Dominic Davies is currently a DPhil Student in English Literature at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Elleke Boemer. His research explores the literary negotiations of imperial infrastructure and indigenous resistance during the height of the British Empire, in India and Southern Africa in particular.
He completed his BA and MA at the University of Liverpool and his broader interests lie in the area of colonial and post-colonial literature, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory, and Marxist and materialist theory.
He is also one of the Senior Editors for the Oxonian Review website and a Copy-Editor for the AHRC-funded postgraduate journal Victorian Network.
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| 1 | Kipling, the Elton John of his age? | Professor Elleke Boehmer discusses why Kipling's writing, and his poetry of the late nineteenth and… | Dominic Davies, Elleke Boehmer |
| 2 | Postcolonial Women Writers | Professor Elleke Boehmer notes the distinct lack of women writers on the Post/Colonial Writing page… | Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies |
| 3 | Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott | Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime… | Dominic Davies, Jason Allen-Paisant |
| 4 | Colonial Writers - Introduction | The title of the 'Post/Colonial' section of the Great Writers Inspire website is intended to… | Dominic Davies |
| 5 | Contemporary Writers - Introduction | The parameters of both 'Contemporary' and 'Postcolonial', the adjectives that preface the writers… | Dominic Davies |
| 6 | Caribbean Writers | The title of this section, 'Caribbean Writers', itself encapsulates one of the fundamental concerns… | Dominic Davies |
| 7 | Olive Schreiner | Daughter of a German missionary father and British mother, Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was born on… | Dominic Davies |
| 8 | Derek Walcott | … |
Dominic Davies |
| 9 | Olive Schreiner | Dominic Davies talks about Olive Schreiner, the postcolonial South African author, and how her work… | Dominic Davies |
| 10 | Joseph Conrad | … |
Dominic Davies |