Biography
Malachi McIntosh is the Barbara Pym Tutorial Fellow in English at St Hilda’s. At the college, he teaches Prelims papers 3, ‘Literature in English 1830-1910’, and 4, ‘Literature in English 1910-Present’.
Prior to joining St Hilda’s, Malachi was the Editor and Publishing Director of Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing, and created its podcast, Craft. Prior to that, Malachi co-led the Runnymede Trust’s award-winning Our Migration Story history education project; lectured at the Universities of Warwick, Cambridge, and Goldsmiths; and worked for Teach First — initially as an English teacher in a South Croydon high school.
Malachi’s research is primarily focused on Caribbean and Black British writing of the 1950s-1980s. He is also interested in inter- and post-world-war-era writing from the French Caribbean, and broader diaspora, world literature, and postcolonial literary studies.
Books
- Parables, Fables, Nightmares [winner of the 2024 Edge Hill Short Story Prize for best debut] (Birmingham: The Emma Press, 2023)
- (ed.) Beyond Calypso: Re-Reading Samuel Selvon (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2016)
- Emigration and Caribbean Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Selected Articles, Stories, and Chapters
- ‘Images of Transcendence: “Crisis Always” and the New Black British Poets’, Études Anglaises 76:1 (2023), pp. 31-46.
- (w/ Claire Alexander and Sundeep Lidher), ‘Our Migration Story: History, the National Curriculum, and Re-Narrating the British Nation’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies special issue History, Memory and Migrations, ed. by Christophe Bertossi and Jan Willem Duyvendak (2020).
- ‘A Game of Chess’, The Book of Birmingham (Manchester: Comma Press, 2018), pp. 93-103.
- ‘A Love Story’, Under the Radar 18 (2016), pp. 66-68.
- ‘“Playing Mas Isn’t Playing the Ass: Moses Migrating as “Farce en Noir”’, Beyond Calypso: Re-reading Samuel Selvon (Ian Randle Press, 2016), pp. 135-49.
- ‘Postcolonial Plurality in Black British Fiction’, The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) (Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 193-207.
- ‘The Exigencies of Exile and Dialectics of Flight: Migrant Fictions, V.S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai’, Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 72-86.
- ‘Lamming versus Naipaul: Writing Migrants, Writing Islands in the British Literary Field’, Migrant Identities of “Creole Cosmopolitans”: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 79-93.
- (w/ Letizia Gramaglia)‘Censorship, Selvon and Caribbean Voices; “Behind the Humming Bird” and the Caribbean Literary Field’, Brighter Suns: 60 Years of Literature from Trinidad, Wasafiri 28:2 (2013), pp. 48-54.
- ‘The “I” as Messiah in Césaire’s First Cahier’, Research in African Literatures 43:2 (2012), pp. 77-94.
- ‘Introduction’, Re-Reading Selvon, Journal of West Indian Literature 20:2, (2012), pp. 1-5.
- ‘The Moor in the Text: Modern Colonialism in Medieval Christian Spain’, Journal of Romance Studies 6:3 (2006), pp. 61-70.
Positions
- Tutorial Fellow in English
- Associate Professor, Faculty of English
Subjects
- English
