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Dr Filippo Menozzi

Humanities and Social Science

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: F.Menozzi@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 231 3061

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My research and teaching interests centre on postcolonial and comparative/world literary studies and critical theory. In particular, my work explores how cultural heritage can be transmitted in contexts marked by the historical realities of imperialism and capitalist globalisation. My first monograph (Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance, 2014) reinterpreted the figure of the postcolonial writer as transmitter of cultural heritage. My second monograph (World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time, 2020) mobilises German philosopher Ernst Bloch's concept of "ungleichzeitigkeit" or "non-synchronism" as a way of thinking temporal transmission in the work of contemporary writers from Africa and South Asia.

I have also published on South Asian women writers (and co-edited a pedagogical volume on the topic for the Modern Language Association) and the tradition of Marxist intellectuals from Rosa Luxemburg to Antonio Negri. Currently, I am working on questions of temporality and inheritance in critical theory, especially the philosophies of Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs, and other European authors. I have recently published on Bloch and orientalism in the journal Textual Practice and on Lukacs in International Critical Thought.

I teach across the English programme, and currently lead second-year 5109ENGL "Postcolonial Writing," third-year 6117ENGL "World Literature," and MA module 7102ENGL "Mobilities." These modules contribute to decolonising the curriculum and reimagining the canon by featuring works by important writers from outside Europe. In these modules, I like teaching canonical authors such as Frantz Fanon, Gloria Anzaldua, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said alongside contemporary writers ranging from Nnedi Okorafor to NoViolet Bulawayo, rupi kaur, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, NourbeSe Philip, Meena Kandasamy and Henrietta Rose-Innes. I am passionate about discussing the intersections of race, class and gender in literary forms and was awarded an Individual Teaching Excellence Award and the Vice-Chancellor's Medal in 2019.

Degrees

2013, University of Kent, United Kingdom, PhD

Certifications

2016, Higher Education Academy, Fellow

Academic appointments

Reader in Postcolonial Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, 2024 - present
Leverhulme Research Fellow, The Leverhulme Trust, 2023 - 2024
Programme Leader, MA English Literature, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - 2024
Lecturer /Senior Lecturer, English Literature, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015 - 2024

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