Shaffer, Brian W.

Brian W. Shaffer is Professor of English and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for Faculty Development at Rhodes College, Memphis. He is the author of The "Blinding Torch: Modern British Fiction and the Discourse of Civilization" (1993) and "Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro" (1998). He is also the co-editor with Hunt Hawkins of "Approaches to Teaching Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer"" (2002) and the editor of "A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000" (Blackwell, 2005).