Joseph Slaughter (Columbia University, New York, New York)

Submitted: Tues, February 23, 2010


Joseph Slaughter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature 	
Columbia University
602 Philosophy Hall
1150 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 4927
New York, New York  10027  USA

phone: 	 212 854-6433
e-mail:  jrs272@columbia.edu


Current research: 

Postcolonial literatures of Africa and Latin America; human rights and 
narrative theory; 20th-century ethnic and third world literatures.

Teaching: 

Joseph Slaughter teaches and publishes in the fields of postcolonial 
literature and theory, African, Caribbean, and Latin American literatures, 
postcolonialism, narrative theory, human rights, and 20th-century ethnic 
and third world literatures. 


Selected publications:

2007.   Human rights, Inc.: the world novel, narrative form, and 
international law.  New York: Fordham University Press.

2006.  "Enabling fictions and novel subjects: the Bildungsroman and 
international human rights law."   PMLA: Publication of the Modern 
Language Association of America. Oct 121(5) 1405

2004.  "Master plans: designing (national) allegories of urban space and 
metropolitan subjects for postcolonial Kenya,"  Research in African 
literatures Spring 35(1) 30