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Washington University in St. Louis News & Information > Faculty Experts at Washington University in St. Louis >

Rafia Zafar

Professor of African and African American Studies

Expertise: African American literature, American literature, English, history

Bio:
Rafia Zafar
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Zafar's research interests include African American literature, early American literature and food and its relationship to American society. Her recent books include We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870; New Essays on Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl;God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh; and Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance, a monograph included in the Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume Six.

WUSTL Contact Information:
Work:(314) 935-8556
Fax:(314) 935-5631
E-mail:zafar@wustl.edu
Address:One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1109
St. Louis, MO 63130

Education:
  • Ph.D. in History of American Civilization at Harvard University
  • M.A. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University


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Distinguished Walt Whitman Chair

Rafia Zafar receives Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture abroad

Jan. 9, 2007 --
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Rafia Zafar, Ph.D., professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture abroad during the 2007 spring semester. She has been awarded the distinguished Walt Whitman Chair, which includes teaching an advanced undergraduate course and a graduate seminar at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.



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