Webinar Series on Eagleton’s Literary Theory
Literary Theory: An Introduction Planned Webinar: Eagleton. 2. The Rise of English Saturday, October 26, 10:00 AM, US Central Time I just wanted to share that from next Saturday [...]
Webinar: Radical Pedagogy a la Mark Bracher
Webinar: Radical Pedagogy In my published work I often cite Mark Bracher's work (Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity, and Social Transformation) to argue for the kind of pedagogy that goes beyond [...]
ENGL 2440: Banned Books, S 2020
Introduction The publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1989) unleashed a scandal of global proportions and accentuated the global cultural divide between those who believe in absolute freedom [...]
ENGL 4150-001: Lit Criticism, S 2020
MW 3:30-4:50 pm Introduction: This course aims to introduce you to the major critical approaches available for analysis and appreciation of literary works. The terms theory and literature themselves [...]
How to Ask a Professor to be your Fulbright Mentor?
This brief video, prompted by my interactions with Pakistani scholars, offers a few practical insights about the process of contacting US professors to become your Fulbright research mentors. https://youtu.be/ORzFUUrYJ6Q
Weekly Livestream on Postcolonial Topics
Lectures on Postcolonial Topics I am taking a few moments of your time to seek your suggestions about a series of regular lectures on postcolonial topics. Part of my [...]
Brief Introduction to Zygmunt Bauman’s Globalization
This is my brief introduction to some of the main ideas discussed by Zygmunt Bauman in his book Globalization: The Human Consequences.
What Does Being Radical Mean?
Being Radical The term being radical is often used to connote a negative transformation of a person and is often conflated with radicalization. We have often heard and read [...]
What is Postcolonialism?
Please also read my article on this subject: What is Postcolonial Studies?
Migration, Homelessness and Hamid’s Magic Doors (Part 3) Deterritorialization
Please read Part 1 and Part 2 before reading this article. Migration and deterritorialization The homelessness suffered by the postcolonial migrant has created many new dimensions of his postcoloniality [...]