The Postcolonial Detective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333738955)

ED CHRISTIAN is an Assistant Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He has been teaching detective fiction for a decade, featuring post-colonial detectives whenever possible. He has written or spoken on the detective writers Dorothy L. Sayers, Chester Himes, and Ellis Peters, among many others, and published the book Joyce Cary's Creative Imagination. Outside his native country, he has taught English to graduate students in Beijing, served as a surgical supervisor of a hospital in Rwanda, and been a Fullbright Scholar at Oxford. In addition to teaching detective fiction, he teaches three popular courses in biblical literature and another in apocalyptic fiction.