In the frame of the IATIO project, India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Decolonial Period: Archipelagic Imaginaries, 1950s-1970s, Dr Luca Raimondi, MSCA Global Fellow on the project, and Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir, project PI, are organising a seminar on the theme of ‘Archipelagic Indias’.

About the speaker

Speaker: Shazia Rahman (University of Dayton)

Dr Shazia Rahman is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Dayton. She previously taught at Western Illinois University and studied at the Universities of Toronto and Alberta. Her research and teaching emerge from her intersecting interests in global, gender, and environmental issues. Her research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ARIEL, ISLE, Environmental Communication, and Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory. In 2019 she published Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism: Pakistani Women's Literary and Cinematic Fictions (University of Nebraska Press).