Zainab Cheema Adjunct Professorial Lect Department of Literature
- Degrees
- PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin<br />MA, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine<br />BA, English, Johns Hopkins University
- Bio
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Research interests include Anglo-Spanish literary circulations, print culture and the history of the book, entangled alliances and transimperial relations, early modern translation, and anti-racist pedagogies. Teaching specialties include English Renaissance literature, Jacobean drama, Golden Age Spanish literature, Spanish comedia, medieval and Renaissance travel literature, Shakespeare and Cervantes, eco-studies, and environmentalism.
Classes taught include "Speaking/Writing the Anthropocene" and "Rhetoric of Race and Criminal Justice."
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Grants and Sponsored Research
- Newberry Library Short Term Fellowship
- Fulbright IIE Scholarship (Morocco)
- FLAS Academic Year Fellowship
- FLAS Summer Fellowship
Research Interests
- Anglo-Spanish literary circulations
- Print culture and history of the book
- Entangled alliances and transimperial relations
- Early modern translation
- Early modern diplomacy and multilingualism
- Early modern race and ethnicity studies
- Composition studies
- Anti-racist pedagogies