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 Professor office: 77 McReynolds phone: 573-884-8582 email: piperk@missouri.edu office hours: on leave 2009-2010 Research and teaching areas: twentieth-century Anglophone literature, black British fiction, and postcolonial theory Karen PiperKaren Piper's research focuses on globalization, colonial/neo-colonial discourse, and the rhetoric of "development." With a Master's degree in Environmental Studies and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (University of Oregon, 1996), she has always pursued interdisciplinary projects focusing on resource scarcity and distribution. Her first book, Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan 2006), looks at the evolution of mapping technology in the British colonies--from triangulation to GIS--as a way to gain distance and control over local populations. Her second book, Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A., examines the environmental justice issues surrounding water pollution and scarcity in Los Angeles. Currently, she is a visiting research professor at Carnegie Mellon, where she is working on a book about World Bank rhetoric regarding water privatization, including in India, South Africa, Bolivia, and Iraq, as well as the mass protests movements emerging around the world against the privatization, or corporate control, of water. She has also published in journals and books including Cultural Critique, the American Indian Quarterly, MELUS, and Postcolonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon. She received the Sierra Nature Writing Award, a National Endowment of the Humanities grant, and a Huntington fellowship. Education Selected Publications
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