Department of English

Susan Z. Andrade

Associate Professor of English

412-624-6550
sza@pitt.edu

CL 628-L

Susan Z. Andrade's areas of interest include African and Caribbean literature and culture in English and French, feminist theory, postcolonial theory and Marxism. She is coeditor of Atlantic Cross-Currents/ Transatlantiques (Africa World Press, 2001) and author of The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988, forthcoming from Duke UP.

Publications: She has published essays on Aphra Behn, Maryse Conde, Frantz Fanon and V.S. Naipaul. Her recent publications have focused on genealogical and historical readings of African novels in the works particularly of Chinua Achebe, Flora Nwapa, Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, and Assia Djebar.

Teaching

Graduate Courses:

  • Aesthetics and Politics
  • African Narratives
  • Feminist Theory
  • Nationalism and Sexual Politics
  • The Novel: Texts and Theory

Undergraduate Courses:

  • Literature of the Americas
  • Literature, Tradition, and the New
  • Women and Literature
  • Women Novelists
  • World Literature in English

Other Duties & Service

  • Visiting Professor at Columbia University 2003-04
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