James Procter lectured in the Department of English at the University of Stirling for seven years, and has been Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University since 2006. He led the three-year Devolving Diasporas project at Newcastle investigating the relationship between reading, location, and migration. He is co-editor of the anthology Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe Books / Newcastle University, 2012) with Jackie Kay and Gemma Robinson, and of the critical study Comparing Postcolonial Diasporas (Palgrave, 2009) with Michelle Keown and David Murphy. His other publications include Dwelling Places: Postwar black British writing (Manchester University Press, 2003) and Stuart Hall (Routledge, 2004), as well as many contributions to journals and books of critical essays.
