Nasser Mufti, PhD
Assistant Professor
English
Contact
Building & Room:
1913 UH
Address:
601 S Morgan St.
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About
Nasser Mufti’s research and teaching focuses on nineteenth century British and postcolonial literature, as well as critical and political theory. He is especially interested in literary approaches to the study of nationalism. His first book, Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture (forthcoming) argues that narratives of civil war energized and animated nineteenth-century British imperialism and decolonization in the twentieth century. The conceptual core of the book adapts a famous phrase of Benedict Anderson to asks what it means to “un-imagine” community, while its historical arc tracks the shifts in narratives of civil war from the Victorian period to the age of decolonization to the contemporary refugee crisis. Where once the narratives of civil war were directed internally at metropolitan society, today they are directed exclusively outwards at the Global South and provide the basis for liberal-humanitarian interventionism.
Selected Publications
“Reading the Interregnum: Anachronisms in Gordimer’s July’s People.” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory. 42.3.
Education
PhD Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine