Contact Information

Office: 4117 JFSB

Phone: 422-3383

Email: peter_leman@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Spring 2012:

Not teaching Spring 2012



Student Consultations:
By appointment

Biography: Peter Leman’s teaching and research areas broadly include 20th and 21st century British and postcolonial literatures. He has particular interests in African literature and oral culture, Irish literature, postcolonial theory, law and literature, and colonial and postcolonial legal history.

Selected Publications:

“African Oral Law and the Critique of Colonial Modernity in The Trial of Jomo Kenyatta.” Law and Literature. Vol. 23, No. 1 (2011).

“Singing the Law: Okot p’Bitek’s Legal Imagination and the Poetics of Traditional Justice.” Research in African Literatures. Vol. 40, No. 3 (2009).

“Relative Facts: Emergency Law, Northern Ireland, and Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City.” Text & Presentation, 2009. Ed. by Kiki Gounaridou. The Comparative Drama Conference Series, 6. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 45-60.

Degrees: PhD, University of California, Irvine, 2011

Interests: Postcolonial literature and theory, African literature, British and Irish Modernism, law and literature