Professor Ato Quayson FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2019
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Professor of English, Stanford University
Past appointments
New York University Professor of English
2017 - 2019
University of Toronto University Professor, Professor of English, and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
2005 - 2017
University of Cambridge Reader in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature
1995 - 2005
Publications
The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel
Edited by Ato Quayson - Published in 2015 by Cambridge 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
Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing
Ato Quayson - Published in 1997 by Indiana University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Hilary Owen FBA
The literatures, cultures and cinema of Portugal and Lusophone Africa in the 20th and 21st centuries; feminist theory and gender studies; women's writing and filmmaking; postcolonial theory
Professor Charles Forsdick FBA
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
Professor Toril Moi FBA
Feminism and feminist theory, and women writers; literary theory; literature and philosophy; 19th and 20th century European literature; Simone de Beauvoir; Henrik Ibsen; Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell and literary studies
