A Travel Paradise: Tourism Narratives of Robben Island

The CUNY Graduate Center

Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2009-2010

The Postcolonial Studies Group presents:

Helen Kapstein

John Jay College, CUNY

A Travel Paradise: Tourism Narratives of Robben Island

Oct 16th at 2 p.m.

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5409

All are welcome.

Helen Kapstein is a tenured professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her academic areas of interest include postcolonial and modern British literatures, cultural and media studies, and southern African literature and culture. Her work has appeared in Safundi and The Journal of Literary Studies, among other places, and she is currently working on a book project about global tourism in postcolonial literature and society. 

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Questions? Email Lily Saint at lsaint@gc.cuny.edu.

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