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Joseph R. Slaughter is a comparative literature scholar who studies the intersections of literature, law, and social justice in the Global South. He is the author of Human Rights, Inc. and the co-editor of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development.
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Joseph R. Slaughter. Curriculum Vitae. Associate Professor...
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Joseph Slaughter is a scholar of postcolonial literatures, international law, and human rights. He is the director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the author of Human Rights, Inc. and New Word Orders.
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Protagonizing Narratives: The Role of the Voice in Literatures of Trauma and Human Rights. Dissertation Committee: Barbara Harlow, chair (English and Comp. Lit.); Mia Carter (English); Bernth Lindfors (English); Steven Ratner (Law School); César Salgado (Spanish and Comp. Lit.)
Co-editing special issue (journal TBD) on “Criminalising the Past” (with James Mark (History U Essex) and Phil Clark (Politics/International Studies, SOAS) “Literature and International Law at the Edge.” Two-year project co-organized with Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) and Christopher Gevers (KZN). We are planning six events in various locations around the wo...
Literature and International Law at the Edge. Co-PI, with Vasuki Nesiah (NYU) and Christopher Gevers (KZN). Awarded Columbia Global Humanities Grant for a two-year project. We are planning six events in various locations around the world with goal of publishing a volume on cutting edge approaches to comparative literature and international law from...
Ethnic and Third World Literatures; Post-colonial Literature and Theory; African, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures; Comparative World Literatures; Anglophone Literatures; Cultural Studies; Globalization, Internationalism, and Diaspora Studies; Feminisms and Women’s Studies; Narrative and Critical Theory; Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis; La...
Literature as Property Senior Seminar in Human Rights Gender and Genre in African Literature Literature and Torture: From Athens to Abu Ghraib Parody, Plagiarism, and Postcolonialism Rise of the African Novel West African Novel Comparative Postcolonialisms: Africa and Latin America International Human Rights Short Story Narrative and Human Rights R...
Comparative Postcolonial Theory Comparative Postcolonialisms: The Global South Atlantic Other World Literatures Parody, Plagiarism, and Postcolonialism “Third World” Bildungsroman Narrative and Human Rights Rise of the African Novel Contemporary Comparative Literature: Highlands and Homelands: Guatemala and South Africa Postcolonial African Litera...
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Institute of African Studies. Center for Palestine Studies Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference.
Joseph R. Slaughter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He specializes in literature and human rights, and has published books and articles on topics such as the world novel, narrative form, and international law.
Articles 1–20. Columbia University - Cited by 2,169 - Comparative Literatures - International Law - Human Rights - Postcolonialism/Decolonization - World Literature.
Aug 12, 2016 · Joseph Slaughter is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He specializes in postcolonial literature, human rights, and narrative theory, and has published several books and articles on these topics.
Joseph R. Slaughter teaches postcolonial literature and theory, human rights, and literary approaches to international law in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Research Interest. Postcolonial literatures of Africa and Latin America. human rights and narrative theory. 20th-century ethnic and third world literatures.
