Qadri Ismail

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses Taught

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: English, Columbia University, , 1998 -

Specialties

• historiography
• democracy
• postcoloniality
• gender/sexuality
• human rights
• modernity
• cricket
• literary theory

Publications

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Publications

• Abiding by Sri Lanka: On Peace, Place and Postcoloniality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 'Public Worlds' Series, Ismail, Qadri, 2005.
• Unmaking the Nation: The Politics of Identity and History in Modern Sri Lanka. Co-editor, with Pradeep Jeganathan, Colombo: Social Scientists' Association, Ismail, Qadri, 1995.
• Culture and Eurocentrism. Rowman Littlefield International, Ismail, Qadri, 2015.

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

• EngL 8400 - Culture and Colonialism
• Ways of Knowing
• Literature, History, Postcoloniality
• Developing (in) the Wake of Eurocentrism
• Marxism and Nationalism
• Modern India
• Narratives of Women in Islam
• Postcolonial Literature
• Minority Literature