Presented By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
DAAS Africa Workshop with Ato Quayson (New York University)
"Interdisciplinary and Spatial Concepts: From Oxford Street to African Literature and Somewhere In-Between"
Ato Quayson is a Ghanaian academic and literary critic, and Professor of English at New York University. His writings on African literature, postcolonial studies, disability studies, urban studies and in literary theory have been widely published. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and the Royal Society of Canada (2013). He is founding editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and is on the editorial boards of Research in African Literatures, the University of Toronto Quarterly, and New Literary History. He was Chief Examiner in English of the International Baccalaureate (2005–07) and has been a member of the Diaspora and Migrations Project Committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the UK, and the European Research Council award grants panel on culture and cultural production.
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