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B.A., University of California,
Berkeley, 1983; M.A., Middlebury College, 1988; M.A.,
University of Michigan, 1986; Ph.D., University of Michigan,
1990.
Interests: Postcolonial
Literature and Theory; Literary and Cultural Theory;
European Representation of the Middle East; Victorian Novel
and Travel Literature; US Immigration History; 19th Century
Photography of/in the Middle East.
Selected Works:
Books:
A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration
and Cultural Identity in the United States, (Duke
University Press, 2005).
Belated Travelers: Orientalism in
the Age of Colonial Dissolution (Durham: Duke University
Press, 1994).
Ed. Orientalism Beyond "Orientalism,"
special issue of L'Esprit Createur (Summer 1994).
Book Chapters/Articles:
“Postcolonial Theory and the
Predicament of “Minor Literature,” in Minor
Transnationalisms, edited by Francoise Lionnet and
Shu-mei Shih, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
“On Globalization, Again,” in
Postcolonialism and Beyond, edited by Suvir Kaul and
Ania Lumba, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
"Une Pratique Sauvage: Postcolonial
Belatedness and Cultural Politics," The Pre-Occupation of
Postcolonial Studies Postcolonial, edited by Fawzia
Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks (Durham: Duke
University Press, 2000).
“Foreign Objects: Finding Solutions to Democracy’s
Problems,” (and Juliet Williams), Diaspora: A Journal of
Transnational Studies, (2001).
"National Identity and Immigration: American Polity,
Nativism, and the "Alien," in Beyond Dichotomies,
edited by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi, (Buffalo: SUNY Press,
2000).
"The Powerful Art of Qajar
Photography: Orientalism and (Self)-Orientalizing in
Nineteenth-Century Iran," special issue on "Representing the
Qajars: New Research in the Study of 19th-Century Iran,"
edited by Layla Diba, Journal of Iranian Studies,
(2001).
“Founding Myths of the Nation, Or What
Jefferson and Hamilton Forgot about Immigration,” Aztlan:
A Journal of Chicano Studies," (2001).
"Orientalist or Orienteur?
Antoin Sevruguin and the Margin of Photography,"
Sevruguin and the Persian Image, edited by Fredrick
Bohrer, Washington, D.C.: Sackler Gallery Series,
Smithsonian Museum, (1999).
"INS and Outs: Producing Delinquency
at the Border," Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano
Studies, (Spring 1998).
"Reflections on the Family
Photos of Iranians in Los Angeles," Suitcase (Summer
1997).
"Nationalism and Immigration in the
United States," in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational
Studies, (1997).
"Eroticism, Colonialism, and Violence,"
Identity, Violence and Self-determination, edited by
Samuel Weber and Peter van der Veer, (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1997).
"Border INSpection: Crossing
the U.S. Border," Centuries' Ends, Narrative Means,
edited by Robert Newman (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1996).
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