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
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

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?

2 Jan 2020 Professor Ato Quayson FBA

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

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Professor Mary Jacobus FBA

British Romanticism, especially Wordsworth; feminist literary theory and criticism; psychoanalysis; visual culture

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Professor Robin Milner-Gulland FBA

Russia - modern literature (particularly 20th c. poetry); medieval and modern Russian culture, language, history, art and architecture; Byzantine culture; aspects of Sussex archaeology

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