Education
B.A., Massey University, New Zealand;
M.Phil. (Dist.), Massey University;
Ph.D., Duke University, 2004
“… and I want nothing. It’s what I’m trained
to believe in. But I can still dream of things that have never been
but someday will be.” – The Mekons, Journey to the End of
the Night.
“Art means to resist the course of a world that unceasingly holds a gun to humanity’s chest.” – T. W. Adorno
Associate Professor of English
Joined Connecticut College: 2004
Specialization:
- Postcolonial theory
- Postcolonial literature (especially Caribbean, West African, Irish)
- Twentieth-century British and British-Colonial literature
- Critical theory
- The Gothic
Simon Hay’s latest book, A History of the Modern British Ghost Story, will be published by Palgrave/Macmillan in 2011.
His most recent publications have been in the journals Pedagogy, Radical Philosophy, and journal x. He is currently working on projects about the postcolonial Bildungsroman, about Hugh Walpole’s Russian novels, about postcolonial narratives of remembering revolution, and, in a more hopefully-there-will-be-time-for-this-at-some-future-date way, about detective stories.
He spends as much time as he can with his new son, Gabriel.
Professor Hay teaches ENG 220: Theory and Practice of Literary Study; ENG 237: Literature and Empire; ENG 238/GWS 238: A Theoretical Introduction to Postcolonial Literature; ENG 314: Novel and Globalization; ENG 358A: Caribbean Literature, ENG 358B: West African Literature and Film; ENG 493/494K: Literature of the Atlantic World; and ENG 493/494Z The Ghost Story.
View the English department website.