African and African Diaspora Studies

Steven R. Blevins

Steven R. Blevins received his PhD in English at the University of California at Davis in 2008, with designated emphases in Critical Theory and Feminist Theory and Research. His teaching and scholarly interests include postcolonial literature and theory, transnational cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies and twentieth-century British literature and culture, especially black British cultural studies. His dissertation, History Unhoused: Imagining Redress in Post-imperial Britain, investigates the way in which contemporary narratives and performances of migration dislodge violent colonial and postcolonial histories from their particular sites of encounter, and interrogates the politics of new transnational public cultures in transit across global terrain. His dissertation analyzes the critical and theoretical issues surrounding the reproduction of violence within colonial, postcolonial, and neo-colonial regimes, and considers in particular the problem of responsibility and redress at the heart of postcolonial creative practices. Since arriving at FIU, Prof. Blevins has developed undergraduate and graduate courses in postcolonial studies, including special topic classes in black Atlantic/diaspora studies and postcolonial African literature.