Friday, February 26th, 2016
Rm. 5414, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Ato Quayson is Professor of English and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He has written widely on postcolonial cultural and literary theory, disability studies, African studies, diaspora studies, and urban studies. His books include Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writings (Indiana UP, 1997), Postcolonialism: Theory Practice or Process?(Polity/Blackwell, 2000), Calibrations: Reading for the Social (Minnesota UP, 2003), Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (Columbia UP, 2007), and Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism (Duke UP, 2014). He is the editor of the 2-volume Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (Cambridge UP, 2012), A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism (with Girish Daswani, 2013), and The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel(Cambridge UP, 2015), among others. He is the general editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry and is a Fellow of both the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.