Christian Campbell

Christian Campbell is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, representing The Bahamas at the Poetry Parnassus during the 2012 Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad. A Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage writer, he has taught and researched Caribbean literature, black diaspora cultures, post-colonial theory, and creative writing.

• Caribbean literature
• Black diaspora literatures and cultures
• Cultural studies/popular culture
• Poetry/poetics
• Post-colonial theory
• Creative writing

He was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Poetry Prize and won the 2010 Aldeburgh First Collection prize for his poetry collection Running the Dusk. Campbell holds a PhD from Duke University and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.