Jonathan Bishop Highfield

Jonathan Bishop Highfield, Professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design, received his PhD from the University of Iowa. His work on postcolonial ecocriticism has appeared as chapters in Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa (2011), Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (2010), Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing (2010), and Fact and Fiction (2008). He has published essays in Antipodes,...See more

Jonathan Bishop Highfield, Professor of English at Rhode Island School of Design, received his PhD from the University of Iowa. His work on postcolonial ecocriticism has appeared as chapters in Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa (2011), Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (2010), Trauma, Resistance, Reconstruction in Post-1994 South African Writing (2010), and Fact and Fiction (2008). He has published essays in Antipodes, Atlantic Studies, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, The Jonestown Report, Kunapipi, Passages, and Rupkatha. He is also the co-editor (with Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang and Dora Edu Buandoh) of The State of the Art(s): African Studies and American Studies in Comparative Perspective (2006). See less