Liam Kruger
Assistant Professor
Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies; Faculty Fellow at Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Areas of study
- African and African American
- British - 20th and 21st
- Irish
- Postcolonial/Global
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., University of Cape Town
B.A., University of Cape Town
Research and teaching interests
Global Anglophone literature, history and theory of the novel, postcolonial studies, comparative modernisms, aesthetic theory, political economy, sociology of literature
Biography
Liam Kruger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame and teaches on Global Anglophone literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first century, with an emphasis on the novel. He is finishing a book project concerning representations of urban space in postcolonial literature, taking Dublin, Lagos, Johannesburg, and Hong Kong as its key sites and case studies. He is the author of essays in Cultural Critique, the Journal of the African Literature Association, Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, Novel: a Forum on Fiction, and Research in African Literatures, among other venues.
Representative publications
- 'The Location of Critique.' Cultural Critique 132, 2026: 49-65
- ‘Literary Value and the Prize-Winning African Novel.’ Novel: A Forum on Fiction 58.1, 2025: 79-93
- ‘World, Class, Tragicomedy: Johannesburg, 1994.’ College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 50.2-3, Summer 2023: 349-382 (winner of the African Literature Association's 2024 Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award)
- ‘Transnational Adaptation: ‘The Dead’ (1914), ‘Fools’ (1983), The Dead (1987), and Fools (1997).’ The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the 21st Century (Routledge), eds. Elizabeth Ho and Brandon Chua, 2023: 19-33
- ‘Literary setting and the postcolonial city in No Longer at Ease.’ Research in African Literatures, 52.3, Fall 2021: 62-86