<p>Comparative Literature</p>
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Email Address:
sza@pitt.edu
Family Name:
Andrade
Publications:
2012 “Realism, Reception, 1968, and West Africa” in Modern Language Quarterly special issue, “Peripheral Realisms,” 73.3: 289-308.
2011 “Representing the Slum Non-Magically” in Legacies of Modernism: Historicizing Contemporary Fiction. Ed. David James, Cambridge UP, pp. 253-278.
2011 “Adichie’s Genealogies: National and Feminine Novels” Research in African Literatures 42.2: 91-101.
Qualifications:
PhD, University of Michigan, 1992
Department:
English
Region:
South Asia
Office:
628L Cathedral of Learning
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Rank:
Associate Professor
Biography:
<p>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, was published by Duke UP in 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 (versus Modernism) in postcolonial literatures from Africa and South Asia, much of which has been presented at the Modernist Studies Association. In December 2011, she organized a conference at Pitt on Anglophone Asian Novels, which is part of a large project on the novel in Asia. Andrade is specialist reader in postcolonial studies for the PMLA Advisory Committee. She also serves on the Editorial Board of Ariel: A Review of International English Literature and Research in African Literatures. She will be in India from January to May 2014 on a Senior Scholar Fulbright-Nehru Award.</p>
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