Gregory Phipps

Originally from Canada, Gregory Phipps spent the bulk of his early adulthood in Montreal. He currently lives in Reykjavik, where he teaches American and British literature at the University of Iceland. In addition to his one novel and two academic books, he has published various articles and short stories in journals such as The Fiddlehead, African American Review, English Studies in Canada, Philosophy and Literature, Literature/Film Quarterly, Studies in the Novel, Textual Practice, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, and others. He writes about authors such as Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Graham Greene, Emily Dickinson, Richard Stark, Richard Wright, David Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, John Williams, and various philosophers like G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Anna Julia Cooper, and Charles Peirce.