Steven R. Blevins

Assistant Professor of English Affiliate Faculty, African and African Diaspora Studies Office: DM 466A Email: sblevins@fiu.edu Phone: 305-348-2229

Steven Blevins received his PhD in English from 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 and black diaspora studies, 20th century British literature and culture (with specialization in black British cultural studies), queer theory, feminist theory, critical theory, film and visual culture studies. 

His current book project, History Unhoused: The Public Life of the Past 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. The book 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.