Contact Information

Office: 4119 JFSB

Phone: 422-1695

E-mail: aaron_eastley@byu.edu

Aaron Eastley joined the English faculty in 2003 after completing his PhD at UC San Diego. Aaron's teaching and research interests center around 20th-century literatures in English, especially those of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Great Britain. He is specifically interested in postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, globalization studies, new historicism, cultural criticism and other historically-conscious, morally-based critical perspectives.

Born in Provo, Aaron attended Provo High and then BYU for a year before serving a mission in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Following his mission he returned to BYU, earning a BA and then an MA in English with an emphasis in postcolonial and later British literatures. After completing his MA he accepted a one-year faculty position in the English Department, teaching Technical Writing and Introduction to Literary Analysis courses. He then left Provo to pursue a PhD in Literatures in English at UC San Diego, where he graduated in June of 2003.

Aaron is married with four young children. He enjoys spending time with his family, reading, writing, camping, fishing, surfing, kayaking, and playing frisbee and racquetball.

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