The CUNY Graduate Center
Postcolonial Studies Group Colloquium Series 2009-2010
The Postcolonial Studies Group presents:
Jini Kim Watson
New York University
Ruling Like a Foreigner: Literature, Theory and the Question of Third World Authoritarianism
Dec 4th at 2 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5409
All are welcome.
Jini Kim Watson (PhD, Duke University, Literature, 2006) is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University where she teaches postcolonial theory and literature. She has published on postcolonial East and Southeast Asia in the journals Postcolonial Studies, Contemporary Literature and Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique (forthcoming). She has recently completed a book manuscript entitled The New Asian City: Space, Urban Form and Three-dimensional Fictions. Her most recent work concerns comparative theorizations of dictatorships in postcolonial literature and theory.
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The Postcolonial Studies Group is a chartered organization of the Doctoral Students’ Council. Please visit our website at www.opencuny.org/psg
Questions? Email Fiona Lee at fiona.lee@gmail.com.
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