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Professor Ato Quayson FBA

African and postcolonial literature; comparative work on tragedy across various literary traditions; disability and its representations; modern diaspora and transnational studies; urban studies

Elected 2019

Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Literature
Website
https://english.stanford.edu/people/ato-quayson

Current post

Professor of English, Stanford University

Past appointments

New York University Professor of English

Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

University of Toronto University Professor, Professor of English, and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies

Jan 2005 - Jan 2017

University of Cambridge Reader in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature

Jan 1995 - Jan 2005

Publications

The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

Edited by Ato Quayson - Published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press

Oxford Street, Accra

Ato Quayson - Published in 2014 by Duke University Press

A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism

Edited by Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani - Published in 2013 by Wiley Blackwell

Labor Migration, Human Trafficking, and Multinational Corporations

Edited by Ato Quayson and Antonela Arhin - Published in 2012 by Routledge

The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, Volumes I & II

Edited by Ato Quayson - Published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press

Fathers & Daughters – An Anthology of Exploration

Edited by Ato Quayson - Published in 2008 by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited

Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation

Ato Quayson - Published in 2007 by Columbia University Press

Calibrations: Reading for the Social

Ato Quayson - Published in 2003 by University of Minnesota Press

Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process?

Ato Quayson - Published in 1999 by Polity

Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing

Ato Quayson - Published in 1997 by Indiana University Press

What is postcolonial literature?

Professor Ato Quayson FBA

Professor Ato Quayson explores the origins of the term postcolonialism and how we define postcolonial literature.

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