Occupation Poet Years active 2010–present | Name Christian Campbell Role Poet | |
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Full Name Christian Campbell Born 1979 Bahamas Books Running the Dusk, Romancing "the Folk": Rereading the Nation in Caribbean Poetics | ||
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In 2010, Christian Campbell won the best first collection prize at the Aldeburgh poetry festival in Suffolk for his Running the Dusk (Peepaltree, 2010). Furthermore, the work was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Cave Canem Prize and the Guyana Prize for Literature.
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Campbell has an M.Phil. in Modern British Literature from Oxford University, as well as an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Duke University. In 2010 he invited Nobel Prize Laureate Derek Walcott to the University of Toronto.
Campbell is currently Assistant Professor of English at the English department of University of Toronto. His teaching and research interests comprise Caribbean Literature; Black Diaspora Literatures and Cultures; Cultural Studies/Popular Culture; Poetry/Poetics; Postcolonial Theory; Creative Writing.
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Personal life
Campbell has lived in the Caribbean, the US, the UK and in Canada. He describes himself as 'a nomad that comes from nomads'.