English

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English, Stanford University, 2004
B.A., History Major, Summa Cum Laude, Yale University, 1997

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INTERESTS: Twentieth- and 21st-century postcolonial and American literature; theories of globalization

Shameem Black's research and teaching address questions of globalization in contemporary literature. She works on fiction and poetry from North America, South Asia, Africa, and Europe, with particular attention to South Asian and Asian American literature. Her first book project, Cosmopoetics, shows how novels from different parts of the world try to represent socially diverse peoples and places without stereotyping, idealizing, or exoticizing them. Her current book project explores the problem of reconciliation after mass conflict in fiction from the 1990s and 2000s.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

-"Cosmopolitanism at Home: Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 41:3 (2006), 45-65

--"Fertile Cosmofeminism: Ruth Ozeki and Transnational Reproduction," Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 5:1 (2004), 226-256

--"Homoerotics of Influence: Eudora Welty Romances Virginia Woolf," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 22:1 (Spring 2003), 149-171

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Fiction Without Borders, Postcolonial Literature and Globalization (senior seminar), Directed Studies: Literature, The European Literary Tradition, Introduction to American Literature