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INDIAN OCEAN EPISTEMOLOGIES

The collaborative project between Professor Evan Mwangi (Northwestern) and Professor Tina Steiner (Stellenbosch) centered on the publication of the English translation of Davidson Don Tengu Jabavu’s isiXhosa travelogue to India and on co-editing a special issue of the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

 

The travelogue and the scholarly articles are academic resources for a new critical theory course on Indian Ocean epistemologies developed by Evan Mwangi and Tina Steiner.

 

The Mellon fellow, Serah Namulisa Kasembeli (Stellenbosch), assisted with the research for the course development while visiting Northwestern. Notably, Kasembrli compiled a list of resources for Indian Ocean Epistemologies.

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EVAN MWANGI

Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University, where he also teaches in the Program of African Studies. 

Tina Steiner

Associate Professor of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where she teaches on African fiction, translation studies, postcolonial studies, migration studies, and Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean. 

SERAH NAMULISA KASEMBELI

 

as the Mellon Fellow, Kasembeli has spent the Fall of 2017 and Winter of 2018 at Northwestern while enrolled at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, as an English PhD student. 

Funding for criticalsyllabus.com has been provided by the Mellon Foundation. 



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