Christian Campbell

Christian Campbell (born 1979) is a Trinidadian-Bahamian poet, essayist and cultural critic who has lived in the Caribbean, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Trained as an academic, he was an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Education and career Christian Campbell was born in The Bahamas of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage. He went to Queen's College Secondary School, graduating at the age of 15, and attended Macalester College on scholarship, graduating at the age of 19. He went on to earn an M.Phil. in Modern British Literature from Balliol College, Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and then an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Duke University. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at the English department of University of Toronto, where in 2010 he invited Nobel Prize Laureate Derek Walcott. Campbell's teaching and research interests comprise Caribbean Literature; Black Diaspora Literatures and Cultures; Cultural Studies/Popular Culture; Poetry/Poetics; Postcolonial Theory; Creative Writing. Campbell represented The Bahamas at the Cultural Olympiad's Poetry Parnassus in 2012 at the Southbank Centre in London.