With a PhD from Boston University, Dr. Randy Boyagoda is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Ryerson University. His scholarship focuses on modern American literature and culture. His book Race, Immigration and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner (Routledge, 2009) argues that the work of Rushdie, Ellison, and Faulkner reveals a century-long transformation of how American identity and experience have been imagined, and that these transformations have been provoked by new forms of immigration and by unanticipated mixings of cultures and ethnic groups. Dr. Boyagoda is also an acclaimed fiction writer and critic.  

Dr. Boyagoda has just published a new book, Beggar's Feast.  You can read more about his novel and upcoming readings and interviews here.

Selected Publications

Beggar’s Feast. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2011.   

Race, Immigration and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner. New York: Routledge, 2008. 

   Governor of the Northern Province (novel). Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006.

Contact

Boyagoda@ryerson.ca