Philip Kaisary

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Philip Kaisary is Professor of Law, English, and Comparative Literary Studies at Carleton University. 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.

Experience

  • –present
    2023–2025 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor of Cultural Mediations, Carleton University
  • 2019–present
    Associate professor, Carleton University

Education

  • 2010 
    Oxford Brookes University , Graduate Diploma in Law & Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
  • 2008 
    University of Warwick, PhD / English & Comparative Literary Studies
  • 2003 
    University of Sussex, MA in English
  • 2001 
    University of Edinburgh, B.A. (M.A.) (Hons) English Literature

Publications

  • 2024
    From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary, SUNY, Press
  • 2024
    numerous 2012–2024, various
  • 2014
    The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints, University of Virginia Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2017
    Insight Development Grant
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2015
    U.S.–U.K. Fulbright All-Disciplines Scholar Award
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Fulbright Commission

Professional Memberships

  • Law Society of England & Wales (solicitor, non-practicing)
  • Fulbright Association
  • Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities
  • Canadian Network of Law and Humanities
  • Modern Language Association

Contact Philip for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision