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Philip Kaisary<\/a><\/strong> is Professor of Law and Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies. He holds appointments in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He works in Caribbean and Latin American studies; legal, literary, and cultural theory; human rights; critical social theory; world literary studies; \u2018Law, Culture, and the Humanities\u2019; and \u2018Law and Literature\u2019. His publications include From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary<\/em><\/a><\/em> <\/em>(SUNY Press, 2024) and The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints<\/em><\/a><\/em> (University of Virginia Press, 2014). A Spanish-language edition of From Havana to Hollywood<\/em> is forthcoming with Ediciones ICAIC. His next book, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, is titled, Worlding Law and Literature: A Materialist Critique and Reconstruction<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

De La Habana a Hollywood: la lucha de los esclavos en el imaginario cinematogr\u00e1fico<\/em>. Trans. Aida Bahr. (Forthcoming, Ediciones ICAIC). (Spanish-language edition of From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary<\/em><\/a>, (SUNY Press, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints<\/em><\/a>, (University of Virginia Press, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Chapters and Journal Articles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLaw and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Films.\u201d<\/a> Journal of African Cultural Studies<\/em>, February (2025): 1\u201316.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Slave Narrative and Filmic Aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and Colonial Violence,\u201d in: The Films of Steve McQueen<\/em><\/a>, ed. Thomas Austin, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 2023): 78-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLangston Hughes and the Haitian Revolution,\u201d in: Langston Hughes in Context<\/em><\/a>, eds. Vera Kutzinski & Anthony Reed, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022): 129\u2013139.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSocioeconomic Rights and the Haitian Revolution,\u201d in: Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History<\/em><\/a>, eds. Charles Walton & Steven Jenson, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022): 82\u201398.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Haitian Revolution and Tom\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez Alea\u2019s La \u00faltima cena <\/em>(The Last Supper<\/em>, 1976),\u201d in: Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>ed. Vanessa K. Vald\u00e9s, (Albany: SUNY University Press, 2020): 113\u2013133.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHaiti, Principle of Hope: Parallels and Connections in the works of C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, and \u00c9douard Glissant,\u201d<\/a> (Co-author with Prof. Mariana Past.) Atlantic Studies<\/em>, Vol. 17, No. 2, (2020): 260\u2013280.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBlack Agency and Aesthetic Innovation in Sergio Giral\u2019s El otro Francisco<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin\/American Research Association<\/em>. No. 23, (2019): 22\u201332.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018To break our chains and form a free people\u2019: Race, Nation, and Haiti\u2019s Imperial Constitution of 1805,\u201d in: Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations<\/em><\/a>, eds. Whitney Stewart and John Garrison Marks, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018)<\/strong>: 71\u201388.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Slave Narrative and Filmic Aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and Colonial Violence,\u201d<\/a> MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States<\/em>, Vol. 42, No. 2, (2017): 94\u2013114.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018From freedom\u2019s sun some glimmering rays are shed that cheer the gloomy realms\u2019: Dessalines at Dartmouth, 1804.\u201d<\/a> (Co-author with Prof. Julia Gaffield.) Slavery & Abolition<\/em>. Vol. 38, No. 1, (2017): 155\u2013177.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHercules, the Hydra, and the 1801 Constitution of Toussaint Louverture.\u201d Atlantic Studies<\/em><\/a>, Vol. 12, No. 4, (2015): 393\u2013411.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHuman Rights and Radical Universalism: Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire\u2019s and C.L.R. James\u2019s Recuperations of the Haitian Revolution.\u201d Law and Humanities<\/em><\/a>, Vol. 6, No. 2, (2012): 197\u2013216.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30195,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Philip","cu_people_last_name":"Kaisary","cu_people_initials":"PK","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-17780","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor of Law, English, and Comparative Literary Studies","cu_people_degree":"M.A. (B.A.) Hons. Eng. Lit., Edinburgh; M.A. Eng. Lit. (Postcolonial Studies), Sussex; Ph.D. Eng. & Comp. Lit., Warwick; G. Dip. Law, Oxford Brookes; G. Dip. Legal Practice, OXILP. Registered Solicitor of England & Wales (non-practising)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"Philip.Kaisary@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"4181","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/17780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/17780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33544,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/17780\/revisions\/33544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=17780"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=17780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}