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Professor of African and African American Studies
Expertise: African American literature, American literature, English, history
Bio:
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 |
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| E-mail: | zafar@wustl.edu |
| Address: | One Brookings Drive Campus Box 1109 St. Louis, MO 63130
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Education:
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Ph.D. in History of American Civilization at Harvard University
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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 --
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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