About
Brian W. Shaffer is a Professor of English at Rhodes College, where he has been a member of the English department since 1990. His expertise lies in twentieth-century British and Irish literature, with a particular focus on the modern novel and Anglo-Japanese literary intersections through his scholarship on Kazuo Ishiguro. He has received teaching and research awards for his contributions.
Research interests include the civilization debates in modernist literature, psychoanalytic theory, and the domestic sphere in Joseph Conrad's works. His publications span monographs, edited collections, and critical essays on authors like Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, and Lowry. His scholarship often explores colonialism, identity, and ideological conflicts.
Shaffer's selected publications reveal a focus on modernist narrative structures, trauma and otherness in colonial contexts, and interdisciplinary approaches to literature and cultural studies. He has organized conferences and written extensively on pedagogical methods for teaching modernist texts. His academic work bridges British and Irish literature with continental philosophy and psychoanalytic thought.
- Scientific Awards:
- Awards for teaching and scholarship at Rhodes College
