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 from North America, South Asia, Africa, and Europe, with particular attention to South Asian and Asian American literature. Her new book, /Fiction Across Borders/ (forthcoming in 2009), investigates 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 explores the problem of reconciliation after mass conflict in fiction from the 1990s and 2000s.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

-- "Microloans and Micronarratives: Sentiment for a Small World," forthcoming from Public Culture

-- “Fictions of Rebuilding: Reconstruction in Ivan Vladislavic’s South Africa,” forthcoming from ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

--"Ishiguro's Inhuman Aesthetics," forthcoming from Modern Fiction Studies

--"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, Literature of the Middle Passage

GRADUATE COURSES: Literature in the Age of Globalization