Associate Professor
Contact
2506 Lee Hall
Department of English
P.O. Box E
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Education
Teaching Interests
Postcolonial Literature, World Literature, Critical Theory, Film
Recent Courses
- EN 8593 Studies in Postcolonial Literatures: South African Literature in Transition
- EN 4990/6990 Special Topics: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures and Theory
- EN 4813/6813 The World Novel Since 1900
- EN 3414 Critical Research and Writing in Literary Studies
- EN 2283 World Literatures after 1600
Bio
Andrea Spain specializes in late twentieth-century and contemporary postcolonial literature, with a focus on post-apartheid South African Literature and culture. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on world literature, postcolonial theory, gender studies and critical theory. She has published on Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has guest-curated a volume of Trickshouse an online journal of new media arts, and has recently written on Nadine Gordimer for a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, "Modern Fiction and Politics," edited by R. Radhakrishnan. Her manuscript, Postcoloniality and Event, explores the role of time, memory and perception in the postcolonial present.
Publications
- “Notes on the Event.” Bombay Gin. 40 (2014): 130-36. Co-authored with Bhanu Kapil.
- “Event, Exceptionalism, and the Imperceptible: The Politics of Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup.” Modern Fiction Studies 58.4 (Winter 2012): 746-772.
- “Sensation and the Art of Capture.” Time, Politics and Aesthetics. Spec. issue of Trickhouse. 7.1 (2010).
- “Spectral Futures? Responsibility and the Weight of the Past: Necessary Failures of Representation in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story.” Ghosts, Stories and Histories. Ed. Sladja Blazen. New York: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Honors and Awards
- College of Arts & Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University at Buffalo, 2006-07.
- College of Arts and Sciences Top Teachers as Rated by Students, University at Buffalo, 2003.
- Teaching Fellow, New Mathematical Topographies, Canisius College, 2003.
- Julian Park Chair Research Grant, University at Buffalo, 2001.
Faculty & Staff