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Associate Professor of English
Wright Hall 212;
(413) 585-3311
ahai@email.smith.edu
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 3:00-4:00
B.A. English, Philosophy and Economics, Wellesley College
Ph.D., Yale University
Ambreen Hai teaches Postcolonial Literature in English from Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean, Writing of the British Empire, 19th-20th century British literature, and Contemporary Literary Theory. She also co-teaches SWG 150, "Introduction to the Study of Women and Gender". Her book, Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, is forthcoming from Ohio University Press (2009). It focuses on the work of Rudyard Kipling, E. M.Forster and Salman Rushdie, and examines how, in the context of colonization, an anxiety about their own agency shapes colonial and postcolonial narratives, and why that anxiety is manifested through the imagining of the text as a human body. She has also published various essays in scholarly journals such as English Literary History, Modern Fiction Studies, Literature Interpretation Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature and Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism.
In the fall of 2008 she is looking forward to teaching ENG 277, a new course on postcolonial women writers and film-makers from South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Australia. The course is cross-listed