Christopher Taylor's research and teaching focus on the hemispheric Americas in the nineteenth century. While the British West Indies is his primary area of focus, he is interested in how these islands were linked to worlds beyond the boundaries of the British Empire. Working at the edges of economic history, political theory, and literary studies, Taylor studies how West Indian creoles drew on the ideas and texts that circulated through these entangled worlds to develop norms and model polities opposed to slavery, economic liberalism, and expansionist imperialism. Taylor is the author of Empire of Neglect: Imagining the Americas in a Liberal Age (Duke University Press, 2018).

To learn more about Christopher Taylor's research and publications, please visit his profile page at the Department of English.