Online Lecture Series | In the Cauldron: Texts, Disciplines, and the Reading Self

Centre for Comparative Literature welcomes you all to an online panel discussion on "In the Cauldron: Texts, Disciplines, and the Reading Self"

Speaker: Prof. Ali Jimale Ahmed

Ali Jimale Ahmed is former Chair and Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Ahmed is a Somali poet, essayist, scholar, and short story writer, whose works have been translated into several languages. His books include The Invention of Somalia (1995), Daybreak Is Near: Literature, Clans, and the Nation-State in Somalia (1996), Fear Is a Cow (2002), Diaspora Blues (2005), The Road Less Traveled: Reflections on the Literatures of the Horn of Africa (co-edited with the late Taddesse Adera) (2008), When Donkeys Give Birth to Calves: Totems, Wars, Horizons, Diasporas (2012), and Gaso, Ganuun iyo Gasiin (a novel) (2018; roughly translated as “Kraal, Milk, Sustenance”). Ahmed also teaches courses in African, Middle Eastern, and European literature. His research interests include the novel genre in the third world; Islamic literature; Literature and Politics; Fiction Across Cultures; Immigrant Literature; Greed in Literature and Film; Madness and Literature; the Poetics and noetics of orature.

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