Ashraf Rushdy
Professor of English
Center for African American Studies Room 234, 343 High Street860-685-3577
Professor of African American Studies
Center for African American Studies Room 234, 343 High Street860-685-3577
Chair, African American Studies
Center for African American Studies Room 234, 343 High Street860-685-3577
Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Center for African American Studies Room 234, 343 High Street860-685-3577
Benjamin Waite Professor of the English Language
Center for African American Studies Room 234, 343 High Street860-685-3577
BA University of Alberta
MA University of Alberta
PHD Cambridge University
Ashraf Rushdy
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy's main field of research is in African American culture and history. He has published work on the representation of slavery in African American culture and politics. He has also written on the history of lynching in American culture. He has written on the practice of political apologies, and his most recent work is an exploration of the philosophical concepts of resentment and forgiveness.
His work raises a key question about what we can do with an unacceptable and violent past, that is, what we can do with the historical forces that forged the world we inherit. He is interested in the range of options different artists, philosophers, and intellectuals have offered for confronting that past -- from those who dwell in the history we inherit, to those who resist it in different ways, to those who struggle to find some kind of redemption in and from it.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
By appointment
Courses
Fall 2024
AFAM 301 - 01
Junior Colloquium
Winter 2025
ENGL 324Z - 01
Modern Narrative of Slavery
Spring 2025
ENGL 324 - 01
Modern Narrative of Slavery