Literature Courses
Assistant Professor, Princeton University
fall 2012-spring 2013: on
research leave
Term: spring 2012
Model Memoirs: The Life Stories of International Fashion Models
Graduate Seminar: Debates in Literary Studies
Term: fall 2011
Growing Up Global: Novels and Memoirs of Transnational Childhoods
Introduction to African Literature and Film
fall 2010-spring 2011: on research leave
Term: spring 2010
Model Memoirs: The Life Stories of International Fashion Models
Term: fall 2009
Growing Up Global: Novels and Memoirs of Transnational Childhoods
Queen of Sheba in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions
Term: spring 2009
Masterpieces of African Literature
Term: fall 2008
Growing Up Global: Novels and Memoirs of Transnational Childhoods
Africa in the African American Literary Imagination
Fields of Teaching Interest
African literature: modern, early modern, and ancient literatures in African languages; twentieth-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature
Eighteenth-century English literature, with a focus on race and gender, imperialism, orientalism, travel, and censorship in novels, drama, essays, and sermons.
Postcolonial literature, with a focus on resistance, postmodernism, cultural studies, travel, theory, or exile in African and South Asian novels, autobiography, periodicals, and film.
Twentieth-century English literature, including post-war British drama, modern lyric poetry, African American and Latino novels, women’s intellectual autobiography.
Academic Writing Courses
See Workshops.
