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Kaisary is Professor of Law and Professor of English and Comparative Literary. He was previously the 2023–2025 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor of Cultural Mediations in Carleton’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. He works in Caribbean and Latin American studies;...

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Bio/Research

Kaisary is Professor of Law and Professor of English and Comparative Literary. He was previously the 2023–2025 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor of Cultural Mediations in Carleton’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. He works in Caribbean and Latin American studies; legal, literary, and cultural theory; human rights; critical social theory; world literary studies; ‘Law, Culture, and the Humanities’; and ‘Law and Literature’.

His publications include From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary (SUNY Press, 2024) and The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints (University of Virginia Press, 2014). His next book, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, is titled, Worlding Law and Literature: A Materialist Critique and Reconstruction.


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