CMES Colloquium: The Empty Room

Event time: 
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 4:30pm
Location: 
Henry R. Luce Hall (LUCE ), 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Sadia Abbas received her Ph.D. from Brown University and is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers-Newark. She specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, the culture and politics of Islam in modernity, early modern English literature, especially the literature of religious strife, and the history of twentieth-century criticism. She is the author of at At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament (co-winner of the MLA first book prize) and numerous essays on subjects ranging from Renaissance poetics to the Greek crisis to contemporary theorizations of Muslim female agency. She is currently working on a book on Greece and the idea of Europe, a second novel and co-producing a book on Shahzia Sikander’s work with Jan Howard for the RISD museum.

Sadia Abbas, Rutgers University

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