Ramsey McGlazer

Bio

Ramsey McGlazer is Lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020) and the translator of, among other titles, Eduardo Grüner's The Haitian Revolution: Capitalism, Slavery, and Counter-Modernity (Polity Press, 2019).

Contributions

Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism by Ben Conisbee Baer

From the Print Journal
Ben Conisbee Baer’s Indigenous Vanguards is about the education of modernist educators. But the book is also itself an education, combining range with rigor to alter our understanding of modernism and its limits. Baer focuses mainly on the interwar period and on primary education as it figures in the work of Alain Locke, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, D. H. Lawrence, and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, among others. Baer’s readings are riveting, and they will inform research in fields including postcolonial studies, Marxism, critical and political theory, and comparative literature.