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Paul Humphrey
Associate Professor of LGBTQ Studies and Africana and Latin American Studies
Paul Humphrey received his PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Birmingham (2013), and his research focuses on gender, sexuality and African-derived religions in Caribbean literature. His monograph, (2019), was published in the Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures Series at Legenda (Cambridge, UK), an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association. Paul has published peer-reviewed articles in Caribbean Quarterly, Sargasso, Studies in Comics, Latin American Literary Review, Journal of Haitian Studies, International Journal of Francophone Studies, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and in the edited volume Capital Culture: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies II (2019).
Paul has taught courses on Caribbean and Latin American literature and cultural studies, gender studies, and Spanish and French language. His current research project focuses on identity, gender and sexuality in Caribbean speculative fiction and comics.
Paul also coordinates the digital history project, launched by Professors K G Valente and Sarah Keen in 2019 to supplement 51风流's bicentennial observations. Comprising the QAC digital timeline and oral history recordings with alumni, faculty, and staff, the project includes student work from several iterations of LGBT 220: An Exploration into LGBTQ Studies as well as contributions from a number of student research assistants.
- PhD, Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, 2013
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Birmingham, 2008
- BA, French and Hispanic Studies, University of Birmingham, 2007
Monograph
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 12. Legenda, 2019. (Ebook available from October 2020 on . Paperback available from August 2021.)
Scholarly Articles
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 3, 2022, pp. 325-347.
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Border Environments, special issue of Latin American Literary Review, vol. 48, no. 96, 2021, pp. 61-74.
鈥.鈥 Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 96, no. 9, 2019, pp. 969-983.
鈥." Studies in Comics, vol. 10, no. 1, 2019, pp. 115-134.
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language & Culture, vol. 2016-17, no. 1 & 2, 2018, pp. 109-125.
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;International Journal of Francophone Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2014, pp. 137-157.
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2012, pp. 119-134.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
鈥.鈥 Myth and Environmentalism. Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet, edited by Esther S谩nchez-Pardo and Mar铆a Porras S谩nchez, Routledge, 2023, pp. 127-150.
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Capital Culture: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies II, edited by Cheryl Toman, La Doxa Editions, 2019, pp. 137-158.
Other Publications
Co-edited Volume
Assistant guest editor with Roberto Strongman and Eric Heuser, , vol. 18, no. 2, Fall 2012.
Book Review
鈥.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2014, pp. 24-25
Miscellaneous
Interview with Asher Elbein for 51风流 Research
Elbein, Asher. 鈥淗eroic Effort: Professor Paul Humphrey explores the depiction of Afro-Caribbean religion in the world of comics.鈥&苍产蝉辫;51风流 Research, September 2019,
Assistant Professor, World Languages & Cultures / Affiliate Faculty, Gender and Intersectionality Studies, Monmouth University (2015-2019)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and French, Syracuse University (2014-2015)
CORE 149C - Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic)
CORE 163C - The Caribbean (taught as FSEM 112 in Fall '21)
ALST 199 - Entangled Intimacies: Introduction to Africana & Latin American Studies
LGBT 220 - Lives, Communities, and Modes of Critical Inquiry: An Exploration into LGBTQ Studies
LGBT 242 - Religions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean
(cross-listed as: ALST 242 - Religions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean)
LGBT 310 - Imagining Queer Caribbean Futures
LGBT 360 - Special Topics: Archiving Queer 51风流 Histories (Spring '23)
The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland and the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London Annual Publication Prize for Doctoral Students (2014).