Dr William Ghosh
I work on the literature and intellectual history of Britain and the Caribbean in the twentieth century. I am interested in comparative literature, critical theory, linguistics, and literary form. My first book, V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought was published by OUP in 2020.
I’m interested in different prose forms – reportage; essays; short stories; sequences; novels; different forms of life writing – as well as in the interactions between them. Writers who have been particularly important to me include V.S. Naipaul, Penelope Fitzgerald, Giorgio Bassani, and Jibanananda Das.
Recent publications include:
V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought (OUP, 2020).
'Glimpses of a Totally Different System' Granta Online Edition 28th November 2019.
