Joseph Slaughter

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Affiliation	Columbia University, New York, New York
Email	jrs272@columbia.edu
Mailing Address	Columbia University 602 Philosophy Hall 1150 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 4927 New York, New York 10027 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 212 854-6433
Research Interests	Postcolonial literatures of Africa and Latin America ; human rights and narrative theory; 20th-century ethnic and third world literatures.
Teaching Interests	Teaches and publishes in the fields of postcolonial literature and theory, African, Caribbean, and Latin American literatures, postcolonialism, narrative theory, human rights, and 20th-century ethnic and third world literatures.
Publications	2007. Human rights, Inc.: the world novel, narrative form, and international law. New York: Fordham University Press. 2006. "Enabling fictions and novel subjects: the Bildungsroman and international human rights law." PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association of America. Oct 121(5) 1405 2004. "Master plans: designing (national) allegories of urban space and metropolitan subjects for postcolonial Kenya," Research in African literatures Spring 35(1) 30
Keywords	Africa ; Latin America ; world literature ; human rights ; narrative theory ; post-colonialism ; ...