Susan Z. Andrade is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and is affiliated with the French and Italian department as well as with the programs in African Studies, Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women’s Studies. 

Her book on gender politics, public sphere politics, and women’s literary traditions, The Nation Writ Small:  African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988, will be out from Duke UP in October, 2011.  She co-edited Atlantic Cross-Currents/Transatlantiques (Africa World Press, 2001) and guest-edited a special issue on comparative African fiction for the journal, NOVEL, in 2008.  With David Shumway of Carnegie Mellon University, she organized the Realisms Seminar in 2008-9.  She is currently working on realism in postcolonial literatures (African and South Asian), and she is organizing a conference at Pitt on Anglophone Asian Novels for December 2011.

Andrade is completing a term on the MLA Executive Committee of Postcolonial Studies.  She is beginning a term as specialist reader in postcolonial studies for the PMLA Advisory Committee.  She also serves on the Editorial Board of Research in African Literatures.

Recent articles:
“Representing the Slum Non-Magically” in Legacies of Modernism: Historicizing Contemporary Fiction. Ed. David James. (forthcoming Nov. 2011) Cambridge UP: 253-277.

Adichie’s Genealogies: National and Feminine Novels” Research in African Literatures (2011) 42.2: 91-110

“The Problem of Realism and African fiction” NOVEL 42 (2009):17-23, 40th anniversary issue

Introduction,” The Form of Postcolonial African Fiction” NOVEL 41 2/3 (2008): 189-199.

“Death of a Discipline and African Literary Studies” in Forum devoted to work of Gayatri Spivak PMLA 123.1 (2008): 239-41

“Rioting Women, Writing Women: Gender, Nationalism and the Public Sphere in Africa,” in
Africa After Gender, ed. Catherine Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh and Stephan Miescher. Indiana UP (2007): 85-107

Website: http://www.englishlit.pitt.edu/people/faculty/andrade.htm