Introduction

About the lecture

In this module, we provide a brief introduction to the life and times of Chinua Achebe, the publication of Things Fall Apart, and his support and patronage of African literature more generally.

About the lecturer

Professor Stephen Morton is a Professor of English at the University of Southampton.

He was appointed as a lecturer in Anglophone Literature at Southampton in 2003 after teaching at Tampere, Finland and studying at Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008.

His research interests include Anglophone literatures from Canada, South Asia and the Caribbean, postcolonial theory, critical theory, poetics and politics, visual culture and globalisation.

He has published books, articles and reviews on postcolonial literature and theory, critical and cultural theory, visual culture, and recent Canadian writing.