Tyler Ball
Tyler Ball
PhD Candidate in Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Email: Tyler.Ball@warwick.ac.uk
Twitter: @tylerscottball
Supervisors:
Dr. Rashmi Varma & Dr. Mike Niblett
Funding:
Chancellor's International Scholarship
Membership:
Environmental Humanities Network
About
I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies here at Warwick, who specialized in contemporary anglophone literatures of the Indian Ocean. My doctoral thesis—entitled Sea of Stories: Writing Wider Worlds with Indian Ocean Literature—traces oceanic imaginaries across the region's various littoral zones, bringing together texts from seemingly disparate cultural contexts around the shared space of the ocean.
Research Interests
Oceanic Humanities | Indian Ocean Literature | Decolonization | StorytellingPublications
Ball, T. and Justyna Poray-Wybranowska. "Novel Contributions to Ecocritical Thought: re-cognizing Objects through the Works of Amitav Ghosh," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, iss. 2, 2021, pp. 544-562. DOI: 10.1093/isle/issa077
Ball, T. “A Tale of Two Worlds,” World Literature Working Group, 18 May 2019. (online)
Ball, T. 2018. "Sof'town Sleuths: The Hard-Boiled Genre Goes to Jo'Burg," Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 5, iss. 1, 2018, pp. 20-35. DOI: 10.1017/pli.2017.38
Invited Talks
HUMA 6157: “Where is the World Now?,” Guest Lecturer for Comparative and World Literature Graduate Seminar, York University, 22 March 2021.
EN 6157: “Against World Literature?,” Guest Lecturer for Comparative and World Literature Graduate Seminar, York University, 2 December 2019.
EN 2172: “Post-Apocalyptic Visions in The Canticle for Leibowitz,” Guest Lecturer for Apocalyptic Science Fiction, York University, 15 February 2019.
EN 2230: “Born Translated: Junot Diaz and the Translation of Immigrant Fiction,” Guest Lecturer for Introduction to American Literature, York University, 3 August 2018.
EN 2260: “The Constellations of One Thousand and One Nights,” for Introduction to World Literature, York University, 4 January 2018.