Philip Tsang is an assistant professor at Colorado State University. His first book, The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Philip Tsang
Contributions
Episode 1: Philip Tsang & Octavio González, The Obsolete Empire & Misfit Modernism
In our inaugural episode, Tavi talks with Philip Tsang, assistant professor at Colorado State University, where he teaches Victorian, modernist, and postcolonial literature. Philip is the author of The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in 20th Century British Literature, published in 2021 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The work focuses on Henry James, James Joyce, Doris Lessing, and V.S. Naipaul, and explores how literary reading can help us to understand the frustrated interplay of attachment, intimacy, and exclusion under empire.
At the Periphery of Time: Doris Lessing and the Historical Novel
Doris Lessing’s early essay “The Small Personal Voice” is often considered the fullest elaboration of her realist aesthetics.