Speaker: Susan Z. Andrade is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, PA and is affiliated with the French and Italian department as well as with the programs in African Studies, Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women’s Studies. Her book on gender politics, public sphere politics, and women’s literary traditions, The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms, 1958-1988, was published by Duke UP in 2011. She co-edited Atlantic Cross-Currents/Transatlantiques (Africa World Press, 2001) and guest-edited a special issue on comparative African fiction for the journal, NOVEL, in 2008. She is currently working on Realism (versus Modernism) in postcolonial literatures from Africa and South Asia. Andrade is specialist reader in postcolonial studies for the PMLA Advisory Committee. She is in India on a Senior Scholar Fulbright-Nehru Award.