Lubabah Chowdhury
Lubabah Chowdhury
Assistant Professor of English
- Washington Hall 111
- P: 540-458-8755
- E: lchowdhury@wlu.edu
Education
- Ph.D., English Literature, Brown University
- M.St., World Literatures in English, University of Oxford
- B.A., English Literature and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Research
Teaching and research interests: Caribbean literature, Black feminisms, transnational feminisms, postcolonial literature and theory, and affect theory.
Teaching
- ENGL 376: Postcolonial Literature and Theory
- ENGL 294: Caribbean Women Writers
- ENGL 294: Magic Realism
- ENGL 260: Literary Approaches to Poverty
- ENGL 395: Archival Methods and Literary Studies
Selected Publications
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Vahni Capildeo and the Convergence of Ecopoetics and Dougla Poetics.” The Routledge Companion of Ecopoetics, edited by Julia Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Christine Okoth and Bernard Quetchenbach. (Forthcoming)
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“Romantic Histories and Black Futurity in V.S. Naipaul and C.L.R. James.” Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4, December 2020, pp. 479-497.
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“Resituating the Author: Arundhati Roy, the Booker Prize and the Rhetoric of Authenticity.” World Literature in Motion: Institution, Recognition, Location, edited by Flair Donglai Shi and Gareth Guangming Tan, ibidem Press, 2020, pp. 199-223.
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“‘Over and against [the law]’: Migration, Secularism and Women of Color Feminisms in The Satanic Verses and The Year of the Runaways.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 2019, pp. 81-97.