Education:
B.A., Reed College;
Ph.D., Columbia University
Syed Nauman Naqvi
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA)
Joined Connecticut College: 2009
Specializations:
- Islam
- Middle East politics and culture
The Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts (CISLA) announces the appointment of Syed Nauman Naqvi as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow for the academic years 2009-2011.
His dissertation was titled "Mourning Indo-Muslim Modernity: Moments in Postcolonial Urdu Literary Culture."
Professor Naqvi was formerly a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Muslim Literary Cultures in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University.
At Connecticut College, he will teach in the CISLA senior seminar and sophomore gateway course "Perspectives on Modern Global Society." In his second year he will also offer a course each semester in his fields of specialization.
Visit the CISLA Web site.