Lubabah Chowdhury

Lubabah Chowdhury

Lubabah Chowdhury

Assistant Professor of English

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

  • 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)

  • “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.

  • “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.

  • “‘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.