Yumna Siddiqi

English & American Literatures

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Monday & Wednesday:
4:10-5:00p.m. & by appt. on MTW

Yumna Siddiqi

Associate Professor of English & American Literatures

Axinn Center 202

Phone: 802.443.3473

Email: ysiddiqi@middlebury.edu

Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Brandeis University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University

Post-colonial Literature; Post-colonial Theory; Literary Theory; Gender Studies; Late 19th Century Literature

Yumna Siddiqi’s areas of specialization are postcolonial South Asian, African and Caribbean literature, postcolonial theory, diaspora and migration studies, literary theory, 19^th and 20^th Century British literature, and gender studies. Her book Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue (Columbia University Press, 2008) explores the contradictions of postcolonial modernity in turn of the 19^th and turn of the 20^th century fiction of detection and espionage. She has published articles on postcolonial literature and culture in Cultural Critique, Victorian Literature and Culture, Renaissance Drama, Alif, and South Asia Research. Her current research is on labour migration from South Asia, gender, and literature and culture. She also teaches courses on social movements, and on Marxism. Yumna did her Ph. D. at Columbia University in New York under the direction of Edward Said. She grew up in Bombay by the sea.