NCID-0995
Aliyah Khan
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature and Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Literature and Feminist Studies Literature and Feminist Studies (University of California, Santa Cruz)
About
Aliyah Khan is a native of Guyana and New York. She is an assistant professor of Caribbean literature in the Department of English and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is also a board member of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in the Department of American Culture. Dr. Khan received her 2012 PhD in literature and feminist studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a recipient of the 2017-18 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship.
Current Work
Dr. Khan is at work on a book entitled Fullaman: Muslims in the Caribbean Imaginary, a literary study of Islam and Muslims in Caribbean discourse and national imaginaries, with a focus on 19th-21st-century Indo- and Afro-Caribbean Muslim communities in Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname, and Jamaica. This work will be the first book-length literary monograph on Islam and Muslims in the Caribbean. Dr. Khan is also conducting research for a second project on Caribbean hurricanes and the ship routes of the transatlantic slave trade, and their implications for contemporary migration within the hemispheric Americas.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, Islam, Literature, postcolonial