Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA

Creolisation between Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds; Critical philology, including intellectual lineages of the European Middle Ages; European (post)imperial legacies in comparative frame; memory, trauma, and the politics of pleasure
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

King’s College London Professor of English Literature

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