Plenary Speaker at the NAVSA 2022 - Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb

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Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 5:30pm
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Plenary Speaker at the NAVSA 2022 - Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb

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Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto) where she teaches postcolonial literature and theory and poetry. She holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and has taught at Bard, Williams College, City College New York, and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her academic research explores how science, medicine, natural history, and other kinds of colonial knowing reshaped literature, culture, economy, and politics. Her first book, Epidemic Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2021) uncovers the history behind the dead metaphor of the “terrorism epidemic,” by looking at documents of public health, policy, immigration law, novels, poems, films, and more.