Qadri M Ismail

Contact Me

ismai004@umn.edu
612-625-6374

English Language & Lit
19 LindH

207 Church St SE

Affiliations

• English
• Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
• Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

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

Specialties

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

Courses Taught

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

Publications

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