Philip Kaisary is Professor of Law, English, and Comparative Literary Studies at Carleton University. He was previously the 2023–2025 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor of Cultural Mediations in Carleton’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. Before joining Carleton’s faculty in 2016, he held a Fulbright Fellowship at Vanderbilt University, taught at the University of Warwick, directed the Death Penalty Defense Project in Warwick Law School’s Centre for Human Rights in Practice, and practiced law in the United Kingdom.
His publications include From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary (SUNY Press, 2024) and The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, ConservatiPhilip Kaisary is Professor of Law, English, and Comparative Literary Studies at Carleton University. He was previously the 2023–2025 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor of Cultural Mediations in Carleton’s Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture. Before joining Carleton’s faculty in 2016, he held a Fulbright Fellowship at Vanderbilt University, taught at the University of Warwick, directed the Death Penalty Defense Project in Warwick Law School’s Centre for Human Rights in Practice, and practiced law in the United Kingdom.
His publications include From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary (SUNY Press, 2024) and The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints (University of Virginia Press, 2014). A Spanish-language edition of From Havana to Hollywood is forthcoming with Ediciones ICAIC. His next book, forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan, is titled, Worlding Law and Literature: A Materialist Critique and Reconstruction.
Philip holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh, a master’s degree from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Warwick. As a recipient of a Lord Haldane Scholarship, awarded by Lincoln’s Inn, he earned a qualifying law degree and was admitted to the Law Society of England and Wales in 2012. While in graduate school, Philip interned in the office of the first Capital Defender for the Southeastern District of Virginia in the United States and received an Attorney General Award for Pro Bono activities. Philip enjoys cross-country skiing, cycling, cooking, and jazz. Born within the sound of the Bow Bells in London, he now lives in Ottawa, Ontario....more