Postcolonial and Global South

Affiliated Faculty

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Full-time Faculty

Brent Hayes Edwards

Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

African American and African Diaspora

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Francophone Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Twentieth-Century Poetry

Translation Studies

Black Radical Historiography

20th and 21st Century

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

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Full-time Faculty

Matthew Hart

Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature & Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

Poetry and Poetics

Postcolonial and Global South

Political Theory

The Contemporary Novel

Prose Fiction/ History of the Novel

Law and Humanities

American and the Americas

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

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Full-time Faculty

Rebecca Kastleman

Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism

Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism

Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

Film, Media, and Visual Studies

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Full-time Faculty

Shana L. Redmond

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

20th and 21st Century

American and the Americas

Postcolonial and Global South

African American and African Diaspora

Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies

Literature and Music/ Jazz Studies

Black Radical Historiography

History and Politics

Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory

Popular Culture

Cultural Studies

Social Movements

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Full-time Faculty

Joseph R. Slaughter

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Comparative Literature

African, Latin American, and Third-World Literatures

Postcolonialism

Narrative and Rhetorical Theory

The Global South

Critical and Narrative Theory

Intellectual Property

Law and Literature

Law and Humanities

Postcolonial and Global South

20th and 21st Century

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Full-time Faculty

Gauri Viswanathan

Director of the South Asia Institute; Class of 1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Cultural and Intellectual History

Religious Studies

19th Century British and Colonial Cultural Studies

History of Disciplines

20th and 21st Century

Postcolonial and Global South

Asia/South Asia

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Full-time Faculty

Jennifer Wenzel

Director of PhD Careers Advising; Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies

Research Interests

Postcolonial Theory and Decolonization

African and South Asian Literatures

Environmental Humanities

Science and Environmental Studies

Postcolonial and Global South

20th and 21st Century

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