Muslim Women's Writing from across South and Southeast Asia (PDF)

Feroza Jussawalla, Ph.D., University of Utah, 1980, is Professor Emerita at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She has taught at the University level for more than forty years, beginning with her years as a T.A. at the University of Utah, then at the University of Texas at El Paso (1980-2021) and as Full Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, 2001-2021. She is the author of Family Quarrels: Towards a Criticism of Indian Writing in English (Peter Lang, 1984), co-editor of Interviews with Writers of the Postcolonial World, (University Press of Mississippi, 1992), Emerging South Asian Women Writers (Peter Lang, 2017), and Memory, Voice and Identity: Muslim Women's Writing from Across the Middle East (Routledge, 2021). She also edited Mr. Naipaul's interviews given through his career to various newspapers and journals into Conversations with V.S. Naipaul (Mississippi, 1997), which was both translated into French, and featured on Sir Naipaul's Nobel Prize page. She has co-taught an NEH Summer Seminar and an NEH Institute on Postcolonial Literatures housed at the School for Asian and African Studies in London. She has also won prestigious grants such as the Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy and the Alumni Teaching Award at the University of New Mexico (2014). She is the author of more than three hundred articles and book chapters, primarily on Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Literatures in English, Indian Critical Theory, D.H. Lawrence and Muslim Women's writing, written from 1979 onward. Her book of poems is Chiffon Saris (2003) published by the Kolkotta Writer's Workshop and the Toronto South Asian Review. She has published several individual poems, most recently on-line with Silver Birch Press https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com.

Doaa Omran's research interests include postcolonial theory, feminism, and the Middle Ages. She