Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 2012. His interdisciplinary work bridges literary studies, hemispheric American studies, and critical theory with a focus on nineteenth-century British West Indies and transnational connections across the Americas.

• PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2012

Taylor's research centers on hemispheric American political formations during the age of revolutions, examining how West Indian creoles developed anti-slavery and anti-imperial models of community by drawing on transnational resources. His current scholarship interrogates the crisis of imperial citizenship under economic liberalism (explored in Empire of Neglect) and investigates Atlantic modernity's relationship to impossible subjects of self-enslavement. Ongoing projects analyze critical theory's engagement with contemporary social movements like Occupy and Arab Spring through the lens of state violence and bodily politics.

His publications reveal consistent engagement with slavery's legacies and imperial entanglements across the Atlantic world. Key analytical threads include labor refusal in postemancipation societies, subaltern transnational networks, and reinterpretations of canonical literature through Caribbean and Latin American perspectives. His work demonstrates how literary texts like Moby-Dick function as sites for reimagining sovereignty beyond imperial frameworks.

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