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Carolyn OWNBEY

Carolyn OWNBEY
Contact Information
Email address: 
carolyn.ownbey [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Biography: 

Carolyn Ownbey completed her PhD in the Department of English at ɬ﷬ in 2017. She works on modern and contemporary transnational literature and political and social theory. Her dissertation, entitled “Necessary Treason: Allegiance and Citizenship in Transnational Literature since Mid-Century,” focuses on questions of law, human rights, nation, and state in transnational and anti-colonial literature since 1945. She recently taught a course at ɬ﷬ entitled “Postcolonial Literature and the State.”

Current research: 

Human rights and citizenship; twentieth-century novel; literary nonfiction; postcolonial literature; political theory.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D., ɬ﷬ (2018)
M.A., Boston College
B.A. (Summa Cum Laude), University of California, Davis

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