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Grant Farred, Associate Professor, Literature

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Education:

PhD	Princeton University	1997
MA	Columbia University	1990
BA (cum laude)	University of Western Cape (UWC), South Africa	1988
BA	UWC	1987

Specialties:

Critical Theory

Research Interests: South Africa, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonial Theory

Received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Williams College. He is the author of Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (Westview Press, 1999) and What's My Name? Organic and Vernacular Intellectuals (forthcoming from U. of Minnesota Press). He is the editor of Rethinking C.L.R James (Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1966). Currently, he is researching a book on contemporary South Asian women's diasporic fiction tentatively entitled, Good Girls, Bad Girls.

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Africa • South Africa • Literature • South Asia • Women

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. G. Farred, Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest, in 2008 (2008), University of Minnesota Press
2. G. Farred, Socratic Solitude: The Scouser Two-as-One, in Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sport, edited by Ben Carrington and Ian MacDonald (Accepted, 2007), Routledge
3. G. Farred, America's Africa: Barack Obama and the Aporia of Race, Safundi (Accepted, 2007)
4. G. Farred, A Politics of Doubt, Werkwinkel (The Netherlands) (Accepted, 2007)
5. G. Farred, Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically, Cultural Studies Review (Australia) (Accepted, 2007)