Newcastle University

Research Interests

Postwar British Fiction (1945-present); black British, British Asian and Caribbean literature/film; the modern short story (1920s-1960s) and its relationship to empire; West Indian and African writing at the BBC; readers and reception in the global and transnational literary marketplace; British cultural studies and the work of Stuart Hall; postcolonial, migrant and diaspora literatures.

Projects

• Devolving Diasporas
  Project Leader(s): Dr James Procter
  DEVOLVING DIASPORAS is a three-year project (2007-2009) investigating the relationship between reading, location, and migration.

• Kay J, Procter J, Robinson G, ed. Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets. Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2012.
• Keown A, Murphy D, Procter J. Introduction: Theorizing Postcolonial Diasporas. In: Keown, A., Murphy, D., Procter, J., ed. Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 1-15.
• Procter J. Dwelling places: Postwar black British writing. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2003.
• Procter J. The Postcolonial Everyday. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics 2006,58 62-80.
• Procter J. 'The Ghost of Other Stories' : Salman Rushdie and the Question of Canonicity?. In:Low, G., Wynne-Davies, M., ed. A Black British Canon?.Basingstoke, UK:Palgrave Macmillan,2006, pp. 35-49.
• Procter J. Stuart Hall. London, UK: Routledge, 2004.
• Procter J. New Ethnicities, the Novel and the Burdens of Representation. In: English JF, ed. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp. 101-120.
• Procter J. Cultural Studies into Francophone Postcolonial Studies: towards a "disciplined" interdisciplinarity. Francophone Postcolonial Studies 2004,47-52.
• Procter J. 'To see oursels as others see us!': Seepersad Naipaul, Modernity and the Rise of the Trinidadian Short Story. In: Evans, L., McWatt, M., Smith, E, ed. The Caribbean Short Story. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2011, pp.163-176.
• Keown A, Murphy D, Procter J, ed. Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2009.
• Fuller D, Procter J. Reading as 'Social Glue': Book Groups, Multiculture, and Small Island Read 2007. Moving Worlds 2009, 9(2), 26-40.
• Procter J. Reading, Taste and Postcolonial Studies: Professional and Lay Readers of Things Fall Apart. Interventions 2009, 11(2), 180-198.
• Benwell B, Procter J, Robinson G, ed. Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2012.
• Benwell B, Procter J, Robinson G. Not Reading Brick Lane. In: Benwell, B., Proctor, J., Robinson, G, ed. New Formations, Special Issue: Reading After Empire. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2011, pp.90-116.
• Procter J. "A Limited Situation": Brevity and Lovelace's A Brief Conversion'. In: Schwarz, B, ed. Caribbean Literature After Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2008, pp.130-145.