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Sarah Brouillette
Assistant Professor  .  Office: 14N-408  .  PBX: 617-324-2038  .  Email: sabrouil@mit.edu

Sarah Brouillette Research Interests: Contemporary British, Irish, and Postcolonial literatures; transnationalism and globalization; creative industries and cultural policy; print and media history; tourism

Sarah Brouillette grew up in Canada and completed her doctoral work at the University of Toronto. Her research is about relationships between emerging literatures, the cultural marketplace, and the forces of globalization. Her first book, Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace, addresses the global expansion of publishing markets via transnational media corporations, focusing on the implications for authors and their texts. Her current research considers intersections between literature and economic development.

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Books

Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace
Palgrave, 2007
http://us.macmillan.com/postcolonialwritersandthegloballiterarymarketplace

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Selected Articles

Contracted and Forthcoming

"The Creative Class and Gautam Malkani's Londonstani." Forthcoming in Critique, 2008.

"Paperback" and "stock control" entries. In The Oxford Companion to the Book. Under contract at Oxford University Press.

“Fiction and the Publishing Industry.” Forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth- Century World Fiction. Ed. John Ball. In the 3-volume Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Blackwell.

“Northern Ireland Inc.: branding a region at the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.” Forthcoming in The Irish Review.

In Progress

"Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and the Culturalization of Gentrification."

Published

"Salman Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghose in the Literary Marketplace." In Books Without Borders, Volume 2: Perspectives from South Asia. Eds. Robert Fraser and Mary Hammond. Palgrave, July 2008.

"Contemporary literature, post-industrial capital, and the UK creative industries." Literature Compass 4 (2007). Online at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00506.x

"South Asian Literature and Global Publishing." In "The Book in the World." Special issue of Wasafiri 22.3 (2007): 34-38.

"On NOT Safeguarding the Cultural Heritage: Glenn Patterson's Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain." Irish Studies Review 15.3 (2007): 317-31.

"Zulfikar Ghose's The Triple Mirror of the Self and Cosmopolitan Authentication." Modern Fiction Studies 53.1 (2007): 97-119.

"The Northern Irish Novelist in Ronan Bennett's The Catastrophist." Contemporary Literature 48.2 (2007): 253-77.

"Struggle Tourism and Northern Ireland's Culture Industries: The Case of Robert McLiam Wilson." Textual Practice 20 (2006): 333-53.

"Authorship as Crisis in Salman Rushdie's Fury." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 40 (2005): 137-56.

"Paratextuality and Economic Disavowal in Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 3.2 (Spring 2003). Online at http://reconstruction.eserver.org/032/brouillette.htm

"Corporate Publishing and Canonization: Neuromancer and Science-Fiction Publishing in the 1970s and Early 1980s." Book History 5 (2002): 187-208.

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Classes Taught

21L.003 Reading Fiction

21L.007 World Literature

21L.488 Contemporary Literature

21L.715 Media in Cultural Context

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