When I was one of Barbara Harlow’s beginning PhD students in Ethnic and Third World Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin, I had the temerity one day to ask her in her office how she justified sitting behind a desk, reading and writing, when she was so acu..
Joseph Slaughter
Joseph Slaughter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (Fordham, 2007), which won the 2008 René Wellek Prize for comparative literature and cultural theory, and of essays and articles that have appeared in PMLA, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, The Journal of Human Rights, Research in African Literatures, and Human Rights Quarterly, among others. He is a founding co-editor of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development and was elected to serve as President of the American Comparative Literature Association in 2016.