Sean MeighooAssociate Professor

Sean Meighoo is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and founding member of the Animal Studies Society (ASS).  He is author of two books in addition to numerous journal articles, book chapters, magazine articles, and catalog essays and associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions.  He is currently working on his third book, From Darwin to Devo and Back Again.

Research Interests

Twentieth-century continental philosophy and literary theory; Marxism and cultural studies; race and postcolonial theory; feminism and queer theory; Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora studies; animal studies and posthumanism.

Publications

Postcolonial Derrida (Edinburgh University Press, 2026); "Derrida's Blind Spot," Derrida Today 18, no. 3 (October 2025): 234-57; "Upping the Anti-", Journal of World Philosophies 6, no. 2 (Winter 2021): 115-27; "What Is This 'Post-' in Postenvironmentalism?", Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 28, no. 3 (Autumn 2021): 950-65; “Human Language, Animal Code, and the Question of Beeing,” Humanimalia 8, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 27-45; “The Function of HumAnimAllegory,” Humanities 6, no. 1 (March 2017): 2; The End of the West and Other Cautionary Tales (Columbia University Press, 2016); “HumAnI(m)Morality,” in Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents (Columbia University Press, 2015), 52-62; “Suffering Humanism, or the Suffering Animal,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 12, no. 3 (August 2014): 50-74; "Derrida's Chinese Prejudice," Cultural Critique 68 (Winter 2008): 163-209; "The Diasporic Mo(ve)ment: Indentureship and Indo-Caribbean Identity," in Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean (Indiana University Press, 2001), 171-92; "Jahaji Bhai: Notes on the Masculine Subject and Homoerotic Subtext of Indo-Caribbean Identity," Small Axe 7 (March 2000): 77-92.